From time to time, Dan likes to have me write about things he knows are light, cheery, upbeat, fun subjects for everyone. This is most definitely not one of those times, because it involves both the wanton destruction our species continues to inflict on our environment and the final resting places of some very brave, and maybe […] More
Most of us in the Northern Hemisphere (in scientific terms, we call this the “top half” of the Earth) are gearing up for spring. Rainy weather, yes, but eventually the flora in god’s chosen country will come to life (and more importantly, I can put my tomato plants in the ground so they stop occupying […] More
In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2019
Brace yourself for perhaps the most shocking thing you’ll read in the next five minutes: Donald Trump tweeted something super-duper stupid about climate change last week, and that unleashed a torrent of tweets from people who wanted to light him up for it. In a dumb tweet for the ages, Trump mixes up weather and […] More
Jellyfish are beautiful creatures. We live near enough to LegoLand that every year or so my wife and I like to take our sons to the aquarium they have at the park. One of our favorite exhibits is the jellyfish exhibit. We love taking our boys in there and watching the tanks filled with jellyfish. […] More
Climate change is happening, and it’s a shame that many don’t believe in it. We’ve all collectively rolled our eyes when Senator Jim Inhofe brought a snowball onto the floor as a way to disprove it. Fortunately, a lot of people understand that this is a complex issue, with many reasons and many solutions. These […] More
The ‘all-organic’ lobby doesn’t sound as sinister as the lobbies peddling tobacco, oil, or pharmaceuticals. Most people would associate all-organic foods with healthy, wholesome, salt-of-the-earth goodness. Which is exactly what they want. They don’t want you to know that organic farmers use carcinogenic pesticides, many of which are far more dangerous than their conventional counterparts. […] More
Hurricane Michael has officially made landfall in the Florida pandhandle with sustained winds at 155 miles per hour. That’s equivalent to an EF-3 tornado that sticks around for hours! While the story with Hurricane Florence earlier this year was the amount of water dumped – water that still hasn’t completely left the area – the […] More
Despite a magical spell that Pat Robertson cast to protect the east coast from Hurricane Florence, it’s set to batter the East Coast of the United States late Thursday night or early Friday morning. And to add insult to injury, the storm won’t move much once it makes landfall, and even if it does, rain […] More
After months of scandal after scandal, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, has resigned. As you likely know, Scott Pruitt is a climate change denier who directly oversaw efforts to erase climate change data from the EPA’s own website. Despite that, some traces still persist, as I pointed out in a blog […] More
First off, we can definitively say that climate change is real. It’s just not a debate. There are no “climate change skeptics,” there are denialists and then there are those who recognize that climate change is happening. Got it? Are we all on the same page now? Great. It goes without saying that it’s cold […] More
Climate Change is Already Impacting Birds’ Migration Patterns According to a study published yesterday in Nature, climate change has already affected the migration patterns of some birds. Bird migration relies on photoperiod, which is the amount of daylight present. What researchers observed was that while most of the 48 species of birds kept pace with the […] More
Climate Change: What Effect Will It Have On Plants? Delving into the depths of newly published science in the field of biotechnology, welcome to Bioscription. Temperature, rainfall, soil stability, and many other factors contribute to plant growth (and in turn successful agriculture). Humans do our best to help influence and manipulate these conditions to improve […] More
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