Quark Soup by David Appell

Of course, some climate activist somewhere was going to link the horrendous tornadoes in the American south with anthropogenic climate chang...

Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post on conspiracy theories : ...it is the nature of a conspiracy theory that all information must pass t...

"Arguments, speculation—-conspiracy theories of all kind. The usual thing, right? No one is ever simply assassinated anymore. Ever sinc...

Now that President Obama has released the long form of his birth certificate , the country can focus on more important issues: why wasn'...

Marty Hoffert has an excellent opinion piece in the April 14th issue of Nature , with a very high ratio of wisdom-to-words. In "Gove...

Krugman’s wife, Robin Wells, an academic economist herself, was recently reading the Ian McEwan novel  Solar, whose protagonist is a Nobel...

Now that gas prices are high people are complaining again, but the thing is, relative to the price of oil it's cheaper than it used to ...

LA Times : Each month, electricity used to power searches on Google produces 260,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide and is enough to power a f...

King Combover : “We must have universal healthcare. I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many...

With a wink and a smile, Muhammad Ali showed that self-promoting obnoxiousness could be charming. Trump shows that it can be merely vulgar. ...

Here's an image that Phil Mote showed yesterday that I'd never seen before. It's a good illustration of the progress in compute...

Six years ago the UN Environmental Program said there would be 50M climate refugees by 2010. Oops. Turns out there are now even more people ...

If Donald Trump can't be honest about the top of his head, how can he possibly be honest with America?

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Yesterday I went to a climate change seminar at Portland State University, where OCCRI Director Phil Mote spoke about regional climate mod...

Because, you know, you can never ask too many questions, I contacted the Union of Concerned Scientists to ask about their Clean Air Act Tick...

Here's an interesting little factoid: Americans collectively drive 3 million million miles a year, which is just over half a light-year...

This is sure to generate some controversy (and no doubt, vitriol thrown in GISS's direction): they've posted their global temperatu...

“This is suffering’s lesson: pay attention. The important parts might come in a form you do not recognize. You might not know to love it. ...