I recently saw this image, thanks to Media Matters: And it reminded me of something else that was circulating around in some of my atheist circles — a meme which I couldn’t find right now and had to recreate myself: It seems to me that both of those “small circles” are about the same size. […]
Meet Henry Porter, mensch, who: …writes commentary for the Observer. He was born in 1953 and has published four novels with Orion, Remembrance Day, A Spy’s Life, Empire State and Brandenburg. The last won the Ian Fleming Crime Writers’ Association Steel Dagger as the best thriller of 2005. It is set in the eight weeks […]
When political “conservatives” (the term is in quotes because there’s nothing at all conservative about any of their positions) finally get around to admitting the existence of climate change, they have a variety of options when it comes to causes, consequences, and mitigation. Causes: Is climatic chaos the result of greenhouse gas emissions from industrial […]
When you have a climate-change discussion with someone who either hasn’t been paying attention, or who’s swallowed the corporate media’s denialist message, you’re very likely to hear these two arguments: “It’s all part of a natural cycle.” — the argument that the Global Weirding we’re now experiencing is just a manifestation of natural variability. But […]
Australia is getting hot. Really, really hot. Hot enough that the Australian Open tennis tournament has been suspended; it was hot enough that water bottles were melting on the tennis court. The risks of bush fires and infrastructural breakdowns are increasing. All this hot air begs a question: is global warming at fault? “There are […]
When you talk to people about climate issues, you’ll constantly be battling against the well-oiled (grim pun intentional) denialism machine described in this Guardian article: The conservative media may currently be the single biggest roadblock to addressing the threat posed by human-caused climate change. There is virtually no support for any sort of climate policy […]