Planet3.0 Blogs

I’ve been shouting to anyone that will listen about the parallels between 2009’s “Climategate” and the hacking of emails in the 2016 election.  I brought it up in a call to national NPR show 2 days after the election. Still…

This might seem off-topic, but it’s really not, because it gets to the roots of the cultural division we have in the US, a division that wasn’t created by the Republican party, but which, since the 1960s, has been consciously…

But are they gluten free? Bloomberg: Swiss shoppers will soon get the chance to buy burger patties and meatballs made out of beetle larvae as supermarket chain Coop tests consumers’ appetite for less-common alternatives to beef and pork. The mealworm…

On May 16th 2017, I had my 25th and final radiation treatment. I am not certain if it was the radiation, the anti-anxiety medication which causes drowsiness, or the lack of sleep caused by the anxiety that the anti-anxiety medication…

The Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry was the first African American regiment formed in the US Civil War.  Lead by Robert Gould Shaw the regiment endured heavy casualties and fought with valor. Shaw was killed in the attack on Fort Wagner…

Daily Caller, yes, they’re Climate Deniers. It feels better now that we all know who’s who, doesn’t it? In case there was anything unclear, Fox News reposted the vid with an explanation. FoxNation: Here’s a compilation of liberal protesters getting…

Vice News, in a break from procedure, made footage of white supremacist/climate deniers marching in Charlottesville available to non-HBO subscribers. Money quote: “You ain’t seen nuthin yet.” Filed under: Crock of the Week…

I came across a paper by Harry Collins, Robert Evans, and Martin Weinel called STS as science or politics? For those who don’t know, STS stands for Science and Technology Studies and I have written about it before. I haven’t…

Mother Nature staged a brief but dramatic promotional event in Miami for my upcoming book, The Water Will Come. https://t.co/NNzadeBOSO — Jeff Goodell (@jeffgoodell) August 3, 2017 While I was in Miami producing a video with Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell,…

Post-Charlottesville, the Trump administration has protested that they have never supported racism or racist beliefs.   The President’s own history of pushing Birther conspiracy theories belies that, of course – but it might help if they dropped their latest nomination for…

Don’t laugh, this guy could have been Governor of Texas. Well, Ok, do laugh. I learned this one back in the day when I used to play open-mic at the local Holiday Inn.  Seemed appropriate for current events. Non-PC language…

I’ll toot my horn, and that of my colleagues at Yale Climate Connections – nice profile in the Guardian this week. John Abraham in the Guardian: This is an unabashed endorsement of an important group. I have no affiliation with…

via XKCD…

Fake News and the “Alt Right” is nothing new to Climate Scientists. See this 2010 item from ABC News – the same folks celebrating the elevation of Donald Trump and Richard Bannon to the White House have been threatening scientists…

Climate Central: Tesla and wind farm developer Deepwater Wind are planning to team up to create the largest project in the world that combines an offshore wind farm with large-scale electricity storage, the companies announced Tuesday. The project, called the…

Scientific American: Person of interest is an overweight man of approximately 70 years of age with orange hair who was reported to be repeatedly riding up and down the escalators in a gaudy midtown Manhattan skyscraper. When approached by local…

My wife, Grazia, collecting berries in the woods of Tuscany in a hot day of August. Maybe her ancestors were doing exactly the same, more or less in the same place, hundreds or thousands of years ago. Here, I present…

On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy spoke in West Berlin to an audience of nearly half a million, and showed his support for their hopes to preserve freedom in spite of being surrounded by the communist empire, by declaring “Ich…

Guest Post by Ben Pelto, PhD Candidate, UNBC Geography, pelto@unbc.ca As the summer ticks by and the fall glacier field season approaches, I’ve realized that I never put out a winter 2016-2017 synopsis, so, like the snowfall this year, it’s…

This is an unabashed endorsement of an important group. I have no affiliation with them or conflict of interest. They are great, period. The ability to convey complex climate science to a wide-ranging audience is a golden attribute, something very…

Filed under: Crock of the Week…

I mentioned, a while ago, that I’d been at a meeting and had an idea for a post. Well, this is my attempt to articulate what I thought at that meeting. A good deal of my own research involves trying…

1947 anti-fascist video made by US military to teach citizens how to avoid falling for people like Trump is relevant again. pic.twitter.com/vkTDD1Tplh — Michael (@OmanReagan) August 13, 2017 Full video below:   Filed under: Crock of the Week…

Climate Deniers like to cry about being called Climate Deniers, because, they say,  that’s meant to remind people of “Holocaust Deniers”. Well,… yeah. No, I won’t give them a link. You’ll just have to trust me.  The Nazi website cuts…

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A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.  Editor's Pick NOAA confirms 2016 as hottest year on record for the planet The federal government confirmed 2016 as the planet's warmest year…

Timing. I’m back from Greenland for a week and all hell breaks loose. Fires burning not far from the area where I was camped a few weeks ago, Russell Glacier area near Kangerlussuaq. The video above shows what the Tundra…

On my reading list. Top surprise. Solution is not a solar panel. It’s a woman. Drawdown.com: Project Drawdown is the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Our organization did not make or devise the plan—we found the…

During the 2016 campaign, Donald told the nation exactly how horrible a person he is and how terrible a President he would be. In July 2017 there were at least 77 reported examples of Donald or his minions doing the…

I guess the big news yesterday was the BBC Radio 4 Today show interviews with Al Gore and Nigel Lawson. If you want to listen, the broadcast is here. Al Gore is on at about 1h10m and Nigel Lawson is…