My Republican mother used to ask me about Greta Thunberg, “Since when has a 15-year-old girl become an expert on climate science?” “She’s not,” I would reply, “She’s a political activist who trusts what scientists are telling us over what …
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Where Surveys Are Irrelevant
We don’t need opinion polls regarding matters of fact. This is why it’s incorrect to say that we do (or do not) believe in climate change. One either understands or does not understand climate science. The same concept applies to …
Happy People
This looks great. My only challenge is “ignoring nonsense.” The problem is that literally everyone ignores what they believe to be nonsense, whether it’s climate science or voodoo. Most Americans think that Trump, with his constant barrage of lies and …
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Flat Earth Society
First of all, I believe there are far fewer of these crackpots than are commonly thought to exist. The presence of social media serves to distort this. To answer the question, there are QAnon conspiracy theorists who simply believe that …
The Brave Bill Nye
This pic of Bill Nye reminds me of all the radio and television interviews I did when I was promoting my books a decade ago. I never asked too much about the audience demographics in advance; I just presumed they …
Ignorance Doesn’t Have to be a Problem
I dispute that scientifically illiterate adults are a problem, rather that the issue is scientifically illiterate adults in positions of power. There is nothing we can do–or need to do–about the 100 million or so adult Americans who couldn’t tell …
Why We Trust Scientists
At left is a meme supporting the mode of thinking employed by conspiracy theorists, i.e., that they, unlike the rest of us, “have the cognitive capacity to think critically for themselves.” In fact, the reason that reasonable people trust science …
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Climate Science Is Easy, Doing Something About It Isn’t
I spend a decent amount of time trying to improve my understanding of particle physics and quantum mechanics. The subject is difficult, but it’s important in our world today, and therefore I believe it’s worth some of my resources. By …
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Science and Critical Thinking
The author of the cartoon here conflates “capacity for critical thinking” and the “training to conduct scientific research,” even though they are two different things. When it comes to space exploration, disease control, climate science, etc., all the critical thinking …
Big Insurance Follows Climate Science, But You’re Under No Obligation to Do the Same
At left we see the decisions that Allstate and State Farm have made re: climate change. If you live in a trailer park and get your “news” from Fox, Newsmax, and QAnon, you’re probably a climate denier, an anti-vaxxer, a …
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