Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# science
An individual heat wave may not mean much. But we're not seeing the occasional heat wave, we're seeing a disturbing pattern of them.
# politics
Carbon taxes may prompt companies and people to switch to cleaner. But incentives, rather than punishments, may be a better approach.
# science
Sometimes it's hot for a couple of weeks. But sometimes, that heat wave is part of a pattern that hints at bad things to come...
# oddities
Clean air, clean water, and sustainable, renewable energy are apparently just tools of the New World Order to enslave you and set up a planet-wide communist gulag.
# science
Have we pumped enough greenhouse gases into the air to stop the next ice age? Some researchers think so but their models are inconclusive.
# science
Playing peekaboo with weather and mistaking it for climate across the entire planet is really not something to advertise publicly...
# science
Another year, another mandatory post about how global warming actually works and why a warm planet can still have snow and ice.
# science
Releasing climate change modeling code to people who can't run it, don't understand it, and are paid to disagree with it and libel you a fraud doesn't do computer scientists any favors.
# space
The UN is musing about a giant sunshade to cool the planet by reflecting 1% of the light that reaches us. They really don't want to know the price tag...
# politics
It's awfully hard to come up with ways to combat global warming when politicians are harassing climatologists for daring to conduct their research and find proof that the planet is heating up.