climate change
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Politics
Quickies: Alito and Kavanaugh Meet with Homophobe, Climate Change Cost US over $500 Billion
The Homophobic Activist Who Won an Audience with Two Supreme Court Justices, the New Yorker: Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh met with an anti-LGTBQ activist only weeks after hearing oral arguments in two LGTBQ discrimination cases, providing yet another example of the partisanship of the court and the need for a strong ethics code. Aaron Belkin, director…
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Quickies
Quickies: Climate Strike, Asteroid Buzz, and the Abuse of Black Women Online…
Fridays are for cute animals, but first, some important reads for the day… The Global Climate Strike happens today as young activists around the world are sick and tired of being handed a planet that is rapidly being changed by human activity in a way that will negatively affect human lives. The largest asteroid to come close to the Earth…
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Quickies
Quickies: Protests in Puerto Rico, Deadly Anti-vaxxer, Border Patrol agent opens up…
It’s Friday and I’m jetting off to yet another conference today (gotta hustle for that tenure) but I’m stopping in quickly to share a few stories that have been of interest this past week. Thanks to the folks joining us over at Discord for helping, especially on weeks like this when I’m not paying the best attention to the world!…
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Anti-Science
Bad Chart Thursday: The “Realistic” Scale of Climate Change Denial
To deny climate change in 2019, in the face of overwhelming evidence and the effects of climate change manifesting all around us, requires either a high level of ignorance and scientific illiteracy or sociopathic extremes of dishonesty. Today’s bad chart has both! It comes from Patrick Moore, policy adviser on climate and energy for the Heartland Institute, the organization known…
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Activism
#ClimateFacts Tweetstorm at POTUS Jan. 26, Noon Eastern Time
The Trump administration and some members of Congress are intent on misinforming the public on climate change and acting on these lies in a storm of decisions that will damage our planet, our economy, and our future, from withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord and moving forward with the Keystone pipeline to the gag order on the EPA, particularly on…
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Anti-Science
Bad Chart Thursday: Fox News on Ice
All that hype about the arctic ice melting and how we’re all going to live in water cities built on the backs of dead polar bears? Total bullshit, according to Fox News. I’m sure you’ve seen it by now, the chart showing an INCREASE in polar ice from 2012 to 2013. That’s right. You may have also seen the various…
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Anti-Science
VIDEO: Climate Change & Superstorms Panel, #SkepchickCon
And another SkepchickCon video makes it through editing and transcription! We have many more to come. In case you missed the first two, here they are: Evolutionary Psychology panel Anne Sauer’s Amazing Skepchick Cure-all demo Thanks yet again to David McConnell for videotaping and editing this and many other panels and to Jason Thibeault for his effects wizardry, based on…
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Meta Stuff
ICYMI: June 30 – July 6 on the Skepchick Network
I know, I know. I got this post up late. I’m sorry. I know you were lost without me. But I got back from SkepchickCON at 2:00 in the morning, and I was so very tired. But fear not! I’m here now, awake and refreshed and ready to provide you with the Skepchick sister sight nourishment you need. Teen Skepchick…
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