A new poll shows Newt Gingrich is now the head GOP clown, for now. The latest data shows the disgraced former speaker at 24%, most of which seemed to have come from Herman Cain’s precipitous drop. How funny is that for the family values crowd? [Read more…]
The black rhino, now officially extinct in the wild, thanks to poaching and habitat destruction
There’s a great deal of healthy debate over the role humans played in the extinction of megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene. But there’s no doubt about what, or rather who, knocked off one of the lucky survivors of that period. The Black Rhino survived wave after wave of ice sheets and bands of clever, hungry hominids. They will not survive the superstitions and greed of modern man: [Read more…]
I’m not sure what cave Michael Bloomberg has been buried in for the last 30 years, but he apparently emerged this week and discovered, to his shock, that his former party does not believe in science: [Read more…]
Images from a NASA satellite show one of the largest sunspots seen in years and has solar astronomers watching closely for more indications the sun is entering an unusually active phase. One which could potentially have a dramatic effect here on earth: [Read more…]
A huge crack, shown above to the left of the satellite image, has opened up in the Pine Island Glacier on Antarctica: [Read more…]
At the end of the Pleistocene a wave of extinction swept over the icy plains and glacial outlets of the world. Some of the coolest megafauna that ever lived disappeared, from Eurasian mammoths to Australian diprotodons. The two primary theories for why it happened were over hunting by our direct ancestors and climate change. A new study finds both played a role: [Read more…]
Results from the Berkeley Earth project data fits existing NASA and NOAA temperature records like a glove
I told you so! Writing at Watts Up With That, Ira Glickstein — excuse me, Doctor Glickstein as he conspicuously attached a Ph. D. to his user name — eagerly sleds right down the slippery slope I mentioned yesterday to conflate snow with evidence against global warming. [Read more…]
Paul Krugman gets it, even on topics outside his area of expertise. But that’s not too surprising, because the tactics employed by denialists and apologists really don’t change much: [Read more…]
It’s getting to be that time of year again! The first snow-storm of the season is heading for the Northeast. Some communities could receive almost a full fluffy foot. The snow will probably melt quickly, it’s still early Fall. But the annual industry funded snowjob on climate change may have barely started. [Read more…]
Results from the Berkeley Earth project data fits existing NASA and NOAA temperature records like a glove
Climate skeptic Anthony Watts continues to ignore the glaring conclusion of a study he once heavily promoted, the Berkeley Earth Project (Shown and linked above), and is now implying the lead scientist on that study, who he once praised, is engaging in antics. [Read more…]