Tag: climate scientists

I can’t understand how a young history/poli-sci major who has become a social media “influencer” has superior credibility to tens of thousands of climate scientists, many of whom I know personally, who have been studying this subject since the 1970s. …

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I looked through a few of the many thousands of responses to the question above on social media and have concluded: If you ask uneducated people who know essentially nothing about global warming, you’ll find that nothing can stop it, …

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Re: the meme here, a reader offers this dare:  I challenge you to go to a climate science convention, get up on stage, present this image and then give a talk on why you think it is true… and then …

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The intense scrutiny that the rising temperature of the Earth’s oceans and atmosphere is receiving raises an important question, and interestingly, it doesn’t concern the current temperature, which modern science has nailed with great precision.  Rather, it’s this: What were …

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The sign this young man is holding expresses a commonly held belief, i.e., that scientists are sanctioned for expressing views that run counter to the mainstream. I actually don’t doubt that this is true at some level.  If you believe …

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Occasionally, when I come across something like this quote from Carl Sagan, I ask myself how open I am to admitting to myself that I’ve been bamboozled. Suppose it turns out that Fox News is right about Donald Trump, that …

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This may sound absurd to you and me, but keep in mind that it’s essentially what climate deniers are claiming. Most of these climate scientists are university professors, which, in my experience, tend not to be conspiratorial criminals.

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A reader notes: South Florida Cubans, who are amongst the biggest enrollees and beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act per capita, anywhere in all the United States, voted en masse for the man whose stated goal is to destroy and …

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Sea-level rise is of great concern to climate scientists and, of course, to those who live in flood-prone regions.  What’s interesting, though, is that certain coastlines are far more affected by this phenomenon than others. Why?  Well, it’s explained in full …

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A few weeks after Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis thumbed his nose at the scientific community by reopening his state’s beaches and nonessential businesses, and there had been no noticeable uptick in COVID-19 cases, the conservative press began its celebratory …

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