It’s one of those facts that sweeps you back into an alien, almost unrecognizable era. On July 9, 1970, Republican President Richard Nixon announced to Congress his plans to create the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. By the end of that year, both agencies were […] Read more »
Is Climate Change Real? Opinion Depends On Which Political Party You Belong To
It might seem strange that the issue of man-made global warming, or climate change, has become a partisan matter. … The scientific community has reached near unanimous agreement: The vast majority of scientists who deal with climate-related issues, and virtually all scientific organizations, agree that climate change is a man-made […] Read more »
When Beliefs and Facts Collide
… In a new study, a Yale Law School professor, Dan Kahan, finds that the divide over belief in evolution between more and less religious people is wider among people who otherwise show familiarity with math and science, which suggests that the problem isn’t a lack of information. When he […] Read more »
Why we care about the 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming
Three distinct studies using four different methods have independently shown that the expert consensus on human-caused global warming is 97 ± 1%. … The evidence is crystal clear that humans are the main cause of the current global warming, and the expert consensus reflects the strength of that body of […] Read more »
The sun does not rise
Would you say that astrology is very scientific, sort of scientific, or not at all scientific? The question was asked in a survey in the United States, and according to Science and Engineering Indicators 2014 ‘slightly more than half of Americans said that astrology was “not at all scientific”’. The […] Read more »
Religious Constriction
I am both shocked and fascinated by Americans’ religious literalism. One Gallup report issued last week found that 42 percent of Americans believe “God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago.” CONT. Charles M. Blow, New York Times Read more »