Category Archives: Climate denialism

Reprinted from the HuffingPost SANTA FE, NM – Local skiers were festive but disappointed on closing day, a full week earlier than originally planned.  As temperatures in the state capital approached 80 degrees on the first day of April, rivulets … Continue reading →

Al Capone was Chicago’s most notorious gangster.  He was ultimately convicted of tax fraud, but that wasn’t his worst crime. Chicago is famous for its mob history. In the early ‘10’s, goons from the Market Street Gang would beat up … Continue reading →

Earlier this week DeSmogBlog announced the release of confidential documents from the Heartland Institute, the industry-funded political pressure group based in Chicago.  As pointed out by Puckerclust last year, one of the Heartland Institute’s activities is smearing and vilifying honest scientists … Continue reading →

About 20 years ago, one of my jobs was to be a science advisor to elementary school teachers in Crownpoint, NM.  I developed teaching materials to get kids interested in science.  I created all sorts of classroom demos.  I photocopied … Continue reading →

“The weight of evidence suggests that it is ‘very likely’ (probability greater than 90%) that the British are coming.  I am not advocating any specific mitigation or adaptation response.”  –Paul Revere, if he had been a climate scientist. “We should refrain … Continue reading →

Originally published in the Albuquerque Tribune,  August 7, 2002. Today’s author says not building new forest roads, and limiting access on existing ones, could help prevent catastrophic forest fires – by keeping careless fire starters out of the woods. “This … Continue reading →

The press is reporting that the Wallow fire has an anthropogenic cause.  The theory is that it was started by somebody who left their campfire unattended.  If people start believing this theory, then the government will start restricting our activities … Continue reading →

I just returned from a month-long vacation, which included a four-day conference in Bucharest, Romania that I attended using personal leave.  I had vacation I wanted to use up, having taken very little non-work-related time off for the past several … Continue reading →

I have received some requests asking me to respond to a supposed rebuttal by a blogger, Hans Schreuder, of the ten physics facts I listed last last week in my post, “Physics trumps right-wing ideology.”  This “rebuttal” has been making … Continue reading →

My recent post, “Physics trumps right-wing ideology,” seemed to strike a nerve.  The main point of my essay was that global warming denial is an ideological belief system that rejects the fundamental laws of physics.  As of today, it has … Continue reading →