The Red White and Blue Pill
Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO2 emission | Science
The comments about this story are worth reading for the unintended humor in the statements of the deniers. If your response to this is to insist that coloration isn’t causation then you simply do not understand what is being said here.
New solution to carbon pollution? | Science
Carbon sequestration might actually be possible.
FDA OKs first implant treatment for opioid addiction
This is right out of nueromancer.
Octopus slips out of aquarium tank, crawls across floor, escapes down pipe to ocean
This ends with it summoning Cthulhu
The ironclad logic of conspiracy theories and how to break it
to deny the science of climate change is to believe in a conspiracy. It may be thought of as a conspiracy between scientists and “the left”, the UN, or all of them, but it is a necessary part of any such position.
Those in public life who deny climate science have long had a free reign in the media, appealing to the right for alternative views to be heard, claiming that this or that study is flawed, or explicitly claiming that a conspiracy exists.
Worth a read.
12 bad reasons for rejecting scientific studies
One of the best posts on false skepticism I’ve seen in a very long time. Worth a read.
Some media were very quick to jump on the idea that it might be aliens—the idea being that an advanced civilization might be building huge (really huge, like hundreds of thousands of kilometers across huge) solar arrays to collect starlight for power, and it was these that were blocking the star from our view, causing the dips.
The headline it might be aliens was everywhere. The correction no, it’s not likely aliens was no where near as viral. A lie travels at warp speed while the truth is still fixing it’s hyperdrive motivator.
Exclusive: Elevated CO2 Levels Directly Affect Human Cognition, New Harvard Study Shows
It’s a game changer since the only way to convince the skeptics is to show they’re is some negative impact that they will personally will experience. Nothing short of that will matter.