Despite what your favorite Fox News lovin’ uncle tells you, carbon dioxide is hella bad for us. By “us,” I mean the planet and the life forms that inhabit it. CO2, when trapped in our atmosphere is devastating over long periods of time. This is, of course, not anything new or shocking to say — we’ve […] More
Yale conducted a survey titled Climate Change Communication, in hopes of figuring out how many people believe in climate change and to get an overall feeling of how the public responds to these concerns. 71% of people answered that they believe climate change is real and happening. 47% say they are “very” or “extremely” sure […] More
Over the weekend, Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota announced her candidacy in the 2020 presidential election, in the middle of a snow storm. A day later, America’s premier climate scientist — President Donald Trump — took to Twitter to explain why she should’ve waited to make her announcement because her points about global warming were […] More
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was elected by the people of her district in New York to represent new, fresh, young blood in the political landscape. That’s readily apparent by simple, observable facts: She’s the youngest congresswoman ever elected to Congress, her full embrace of social democracy, and her unwavering commitment to climate change policy revolution. When AOC first got […] More
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
The Polar Vortex – the swirl of super cold air that is normally around the North Pole – broke into three pieces, sending what can only be described as “stupid cold air” (I’m pretty sure that’s the scientific term for it) into the Midwest, and much of Canada this past week. Despite the cold temps we […] More
The Polar Vortex – the swirl of super cold air that is normally around the North Pole – broke into three pieces, sending what can only be described as “stupid cold air” (I’m pretty sure that’s the scientific term for it) into the Midwest, and much of Canada this past week. Though our president doesn’t seem […] More
A new study published in Nature titled Rapidly receding Arctic Canada glaciers revealing landscapes continuously ice-covered for more than 40,000 years found that, well, I won’t insult your intelligence by re-typing the title. The cause? You guess it: Climate change. Get our famous ‘Vaccines work’ shirt, only available in our store! In the study, the authors wrote that […] More
For those who follow A Science Enthusiast, or are in his big ol’ Facebook group, and hate the “political” content he (and frankly a lot more often I) bring to the table, you might wanna look away. Then again, this kind of story is precisely why science and politics are inextricably linked, at least as […] More
According to a new study published yesterday in PNAS, ice in Antarctica is melting at a rate six times faster than it did just four decades ago. The authors noted that this is not the sea ice that floats around Antarctica. This study analyzed the amount of freshwater ice on the enormous sheets that are on […] 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
When I read a story on Axios today about the polar vortex potentially splitting into three pieces, I first had to remind myself what the polar vortex was. I was pretty sure that it was a vortex of polar bears, but then Dan told me I was way wrong and needed to look up what it […] More
