The future is scary. Instead of facing it, let’s look backwards for a minute!
Remember that House Science committee hearing last week, where even deniers acknowledge that the single representative of sanity, Dr. Mann, outperformed the three fringe witnesses?
Well, the debunkings continue to roll in. Dana Nuccitelli at the Guardian has a fun takedown of a less-than-fun hearing by playing up the pop culture references (themselves something of a flashback). Then there’s the newest Evidence Squared podcast by George Mason University’s Dr. John Cook (of 97% fame) and Peter Jacobs. The podcast’s theme is the social science of communicating scientific evidence (thus the name, evidence about evidence), and for this episode they look at the hearing as a vessel for promoting anti-science ideas.
Remember when the federal government was a trusted source of scientific information and data? When Americans could be proud of our national parks and celebrated international diplomacy? Those were the days, right?
Well, those days are over. The Department of Energy has scrubbed its website of praise for the Paris Agreement and links to climate data, E&E’s Hannah Northey reports. It’s not just the DoE: Andrew Freedman at Mashable points out a pretty depressing change to the Interior Department’s website. The DOI home page used to feature a beautiful picture of one of America’s parks, but now it’s literally just coal. Because everyone likes coal, right? That’s why Santa gives coal to all the good little children?
Speaking of the North Pole, remember the Exxon Valdez oil spill? The Columbia/LATimes team ran another #ExxonKnew story in the LAT yesterday on how climate change could’ve caused the world’s second-most famous shipwrecking iceberg.
In these troubling times, we’re reminded of the inspirational tale of another iceberg, who was inspired to fight climate change after its parents were melted by the deadly planetary affliction.
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