How do you drive home the ridiculousness of climate change deniers? The good folks at Climate Inaction came up with some figurines, each with their own superpowers of willful denial:
To highlight the absurdity of doing nothing in the face of catastrophic climate change, we created a line of Climate Inaction Figures – toy-inspired likenesses of prominent public figures who claim, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that there is no reason to act. Climate Inaction Figures was the brainchild of creative directors Cabot Norton and Arturo Aranda. But it wouldn’t have been possible without the support of Joel Bach and David Gelber of the Years Project. Their work on this issue – most notably with the Emmy-winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously – has been groundbreaking. And their emphasis on identifying solutions and encouraging meaningful action is the perfect counter to the do-nothing nihilism of the climate inaction crowd.
- Exoplanetary astronomers found two new planets recently, both are candidates for harboring liquid water on the surface and, therefore, might support life as we know it:
All four worlds are between 20 percent and 50 percent wider than Earth, making them good candidates to be rocky, discovery team members said. Two of the four planets, known as K2-72c and K2-72e, appear to be in the star's "habitable zone"—that just-right range of distances at which liquid water can exist on a world's surface, the scientists added.
- I’ll have a Sunday Kos essay related to this tomorrow: Bill Nye the Science Guy visits the new ark display at the creationist museum and was not impressed with the science:
The former children’s TV host was particularly peeved with an exhibit showing dinos living alongside mankind. Fossil and geological records show that the creatures went extinct 65 million years ago, well before humans emerged. Nye emphasized that he wasn't against religion itself, rather the information — or misinformation — he says Ham is spreading is dangerous.