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I am the Angry Left. But if I was in Congress I'd still be polite. We know that the right wing revels in stupidity; Willful stupidity and well practiced stupidity are thought to be the way elitist anti-populous tax-the-middle-class Republicans capture support from the masses. Seems to work rather well. But increasingly this trope of (ig)noble ignorance is being supplemented...
Hackers Release More Emails Stolen from Scientists ... For now, a press release. More later:...
Another round of (yawn) stolen emails What found its way onto the web so far, tiny snippets without even a clue as to the subject matter that prompted the excerpts, doesn't ever rise to the level of lame.
Recapping ... In its latest Greenhouse Gas report, the World Meteorological Organization reminds us again that what really sets Homo sapiens apart from the other animals is an unparalleled talent for procrastination. Brad Johnson of Think Progress summarizes: ... since the global...
Why do Republicans hate America and the Earth? This is a bit long but you will benefit from watching all of it. It gets extra hot at 31:30. I love the look on that woman's face at 31:38 and again at 31:47. LOL. This particular member of congress, Don Young from Alaska, needs...
The Long Island Solar Farm at Brookhaven Lab is Generating Electricity The Long Island Solar Farm (LISF) -- the largest solar power plant in the eastern United States -- is now generating electricity. Located on the property of Brookhaven National Laboratory, LISF will power as many as 4,500 homes for the Long Island Power Authority.
Japan Nuclear Disaster Update # 40: Fukushima Plant Still Producing Energy! (In a bad way) Depending on how you define it, melted-down nuclear material at the Fukushima plant may still be "critical."
Energy Efficiency Question: Water Heaters The water heater for Chateau Steelypips is significantly older than the usual useful life for such devices, and it's really started to show. I'm getting pretty sick of lukewarm showers, so we probably need to replace it. As a good...
A climate change report for the Tea Party "Major storms could submerge New York City in next decade" cries a randomly selected mainstream media outlet over a story about a new report warning residents that climate change could make life difficult in the not-too-distant future. The report, from...
Locked inside your Heart-Shaped Box (Or, for whom the bell a-tolls) "She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak I've been locked inside your Heart Shaped box for weeks I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black"...
Shawn Otto and Climate Change on The Radio: This Sunday Please join us this Sunday on Atheist Talk Radio! I'll be interviewing Shawn Lawrence Otto, who has just launched his book, "Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America," a richly documented and well reasoned analysis of modern science denialism, especially addressing climate...
Michael Mann Gets Hans Oeschger Medal Here's the press release: Mann to receive Hans Oeschger Medal from European Geosciences Union UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Michael Mann, professor of meteorology and geosciences and director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State, was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union. The...
Climate change and public health Climate change affects everyone--an idea hammered home in "Changing Planet, Changing Health."
Two centuries of warming in two minutes This video was just shown to Congressional briefing in Washington, D.C. It is the end result of the BEST review of global temperature records....
What if climatologists reversed the null hypothesis? There are some very real negative consequences of continuing to do things the way they've been done.
Another Week of GW News, November 13, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...
New Bird Book: Birds of North America and Greenland Birds of North America and Greenland by Norman Arlott: New and reviewed.
Western Browsing Rhino Is No More This refers to a subspecies of "Black Rhino" also known as the "browsing rhino." The Western Black Rhino of Africa was declared officially extinct Thursday by a leading conservation group. The International Union for Conservation of Nature said that two other subspecies of rhinoceros were...
A convert explains his return from the dark side Barry Bickmore's 40-minute explanation of why he stopped denying climate science is worth the time. As a a geochemistry professor, it should come as no surprise that he eventually came around, only that it took as long. But better late...
Exposing a Climate Science Fraud "After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, 'Lies - damned lies - and statistics,' still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and...
"Denial Tango" from Men With Day Jobs For those of you who have not seen this at Deltoid yet, below is the hilarious "Denial Tango" from the Aussie group Men With Day Jobs....
Big news from Down Under Australia's Senate has approved a controversial law on pollution, after years of bitter political wrangling. The Clean Energy Act will force the country's 500 worst-polluting companies to pay a tax on their carbon emissions from 1 July next year. --...
The Amazing Phenomenon of Volcanic Lightning! "Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." -Joseph Addison...
Another Week of GW News, November 6, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...
FTL neutrinos and climate change deniers (or why I call the latter PSEUDOskeptics) Without some level of scientific explanation for the discrepancy between a hypothesis and established theoretical framework that governs a discipline, the validity of the criticism just doesn't have a lot of staying power.
“This is not the realm of speculation. It's hard-core interdisciplinary research topic: glacier mass-balance temporal trends and crustal deformation geophysics that may influence multiple processes underlying volcanic activity and earthquake rupture periodicity and return periods.” Passerby on A quick note on thawing ice caps and volcanism
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Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:
Pharyngula May 30, 2007
The Loom January 31, 2008
Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006