“Can Science Beat the Doomsday Hype?”
Short answer: not bloody likely. At least not in my lifetime.
Archive of posts filed under the Disasters and Disaster-Wannabes category.
You can’t live in fear, but some people will try to make you, and some seem to like it.
“Media ‘re-open’ North Eastern Passage”
When “if it bleeds, it leads” falls flat, this is the kind of sensationalist reporting that you get. It’s a good thing that we aren’t paying for content, I’d hate to actually pay for this kind of drivel.
“Thermageddon? Postponed!”
I only know enough about climate science to know that there’s a whole lot we don’t yet know about it. This article just confirms that view.
“Spanish Flu of 1918: how bad was it?”
Some useful statistics on “one of the most lethal flu outbreaks in recorded history.” Reading that should calm all but the most germophobic people.
“Boffins: Atlantic temperature ruled by dust, not CO2”
“Warm ocean, hurricane increases down to clean skies,” according to the subtitle. Hm, I wonder what NASA’s climate experts would say about that?
“I’m a sceptic now, says ex-NASA climate boss”
Global warming? Probably. Man-made global warming? It’s looking increasingly unlikely.
“Old ships’ logs show temporary global warming in 1730s”
Hm…
“American physicists warned not to debate global warming”
I thought the whole point to science was questioning assumptions to find the truth? I hate to be classed as a Global Warming denialist (there seems to be some decent evidence that it’s happening), but there’s a distinctly over-ripe odor around the subject.
“Are the ice caps melting?”
A lesson in Bad Science from NASA (predictably on Global Warming again): if the facts get in the way of your favorite theory, ignore the facts.
“Painting by numbers: NASA’s peculiar thermometer”
More information on NASA’s temperature data, and why it points to a major global warming trend despite the Earth actually being in a twenty-year-long “cooling period.”