When I woke up yesterday, Memeorandum was offering only one story-- out of scores-- that wasn't Kavanaugh-related, a Washington Post piece by Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis and Chris Mooney: Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100.
Hear that report on Global Warming on NPR yesterday? Maybe the report from the Trumpanzee Regime is the real reason Congress' chief climate change denier, Lamar Smith, announced his retirement this week. Surprised Trump hasn't attacked his own government's report yet? Just wait.
This week Hart Research released polling on how millennials in battleground states feel about the climate-change debate. Short version: Bye-bye, Ron Johnson, Rob Portman and Pat Toomey. "[T]oday’s Millennials accept the established science around climate change and see it as a serious problem and a threat."
Taking fossil fuel money is immoral. Says the blog of a science communicator who wore Shell logos to work.
It's poetry in motionAnd now she's making love to meThe spheres're in commotionThe elements in harmonyShe blinded me with science"She blinded me with science!"And hit me with technologyAlthough there are still fringe extremists and dyed-in-the-wool racists in Congress whining that it's time to shut down the government again, that the GOP-written report about Ben
Chris Mooney has been doing some terrific reporting for the Washington Post, primarily on Science. Last week's look at the correlateions between a primitive or fundamental interpretation of Bronze Age religious traditions and a fear or misunderstanding of science is enlightening.
In an OpEd about executive action regarding immigration reform for USAToday, Bush former Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, urged Obama to act. And Gonzales makes the case that Obama has American constitutional precedent on his side.
Monday we did two posts about the problem climate deniers pose for normal people-- the first one here and the other one here.
