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
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
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
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
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
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
