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Two New Articles

Posted in Culture, Philosophy, life, politics on Jun 26th, 2008

“Can the Candidates Answer Politics’ Most Important Question?” at The Free Liberal
“‘Acts of God’ in the US” at Sight Magazine

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McCain: We Have Met the Global Warming Enemy, and It Is . . . (?)

Posted in Environment, politics on May 15th, 2008

I’ve got a new article up at The Free Liberal. You can read it here.

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What?

Posted in Culture on Mar 13th, 2008

NOAA: Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S., Globe

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Doom! Gloom!

Posted in Culture, Science on Feb 26th, 2008

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
Allow me to remind you that there are never two sides to any story.
Never.
No matter what I tell my students.

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It [whatever that is] Snowed Today

Posted in Linguistics, Philosophy on Dec 5th, 2007

It did indeed, and it made me strangely happy. I think it was because it made it feel like the world hadn’t ended yet. Nature was still winning against “global warming.” Less to feel guilty about.
Got me thinking about what the “it” was that was snowing. Or what the “it” was that felt like the [...]

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Revised Temperature Data?

Posted in Philosophy, Science on Nov 27th, 2007

Anybody seen this?
[T]he latest US satellite figures [show] temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not [...]

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Humans (and Astrophysicists) Are Special After All

Posted in Philosophy, Science, religion on Nov 25th, 2007

Here’s my hypothesis:
The astrophysicists who claim that global warming is caused by solar activity (e.g., this team) were getting all the press, so the other ones had to come up with a way to cash in on the crisis.
Hence this:
Mankind ’shortening the universe’s life’
(Actually, a few scientists did it, and they just made it less [...]

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Feelin’ Good About Science Today!

Posted in Culture, Ethics, Science on Nov 21st, 2007

Stem cell breakthrough hailed as end to ethical dilemma
The dilemma, I suppose, was whether to kill people (embryos) or allow people to continue suffering from diseases that embryonic stem cell-based techniques could cure (assuming there are any).
That’s only a dilemma, of course, for pro-lifers who think embryos are people. To everybody else, the choice was [...]

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Christian Craziness in Russia

Posted in politics, religion on Nov 15th, 2007

After decades of state-enforced atheism under Soviet rule, many Russians and other ex-Soviet nationals have come under the influence of home-grown and foreign sects.
So writes Tatyana Ustinova for Reuters, in a story entitled “Russia sect holes up in cave to await end of world.”
“They are simple Christians,” a local priest, Father Georgy, told NTV television [...]

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