Greg Laden once wrote a long essay exhorting Americans to demolish more monuments with less hesitation. It climaxes with a stirring, Lutherian cri de coeur: Nobody loves historic preservation more than I do. Clearly. Here you stand, Greg Laden, on a rubble-pile of equestrian marble, trying to get it through our thick skulls: … Continue reading
What a fool I’ve been. What a handsome, persuasive fool. Don’t feel too bad if I fooled you too, which I did. Heck, I’m so charismatic I even fooled myself. But first, some basic definitions. The Science is the mythical evidence for the urgent net dangerousness of man-caused climate change. If males continue emitting … Continue reading
Alan Kendall is one of our most thoughtful, humane and deeply-educated contributors. So when he rebukes me, however gently, his criticism is not to be dismissed lightly. It takes a whole blog post. Alan recently said I should temper my Manichaean Weltanschauung by getting to know—really know—our enemies, elaborating (my emphasis): I actually meant meeting … Continue reading
Recently we asked you, our readers: What does the United States’ complete pullout from the Parisian front (less the couple of thousand ‘military advisors’ we left behind, *wink wink*) mean to you? In case you’ve been on a peyote bender in the Atacama, that was an allusion to some game-changing news in the climate … Continue reading
Bittersweet vindication today for those who’ve been trying to warn us that all was not quite right mit dem SkSjugend. There’s no amusing way to say this, so I’ll just blurt it out… Someone at our sister site, Skeptical Science, has Photoshopped Hitler’s face onto John Cook’s body. Now I’m no climate neurologist, but … Continue reading
How much longer can species keep up with the pace of biological evolution? And if they can’t adapt to it, will we have the moral courage to mitigate it? These are the questions today’s guest blogger, Professor Mark Maslin, so disturbingly raises in an essay we’re sure will be an instant classic (and probably … Continue reading
The day after children in Manchester were blown to bloody shreds by believers in the fundamental teachings of Islam Islamic fundamentalists, a cell-phone recording of Harvard lecturer Naomi Oreskes is raising questions about her fitness to mentor the next generation of America’s leaders. Continue reading
