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So the Brits have a new 10-year climate prediction model.  I’m not encouraged when it’s right next to this: But over the decade as a whole, they project the global average temperature in 2014 to be 0.3C warmer than 2004. Currently, 1998 is the warmest year on record, when the global mean surface temperature was… Read more

Some smartass psychologist has decided he can explain morality better than 4000 years worth of philosophers.  I’d love to see this guy’s hate mail. Read more

Perhaps I’m being excitable again, but how can human-animal hybrid embryos lead to anything but tragedy on a Homeric level?  Somehow this statement doesn’t reassure me:  "… it’s illegal to ever turn these cells into a living being."  It’s illegal for minors to drink beer outside their homes too, but somehow, it happens.  We’re going… Read more

…when Alexander Cockburn becomes a Global Warming Denier and accuses Al Gore of being a shill for the nuclear power industry.  Now I have to pay closer attention, since everyone is getting ready to switch sides…. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

Paul Dawson and his research group at Clemson University have measured the factual basis for the famous five-second rule.  I still recommend that you wash food you’ve dropped on the floor.  Unless it’s gravy–then let  the dog have it. Tip from Freakonomics. Read more

At last, someone talks about climate change without talking smack. Tip from the Drudge Report (who never permalinks anything–what’s he think this is, the 20th century?) Read more

OK. last year we worried about Global Warming causing an increase in hurricanes.  Now we hear this: Global warming may spur wind shear, sap hurricanes. Yeah, and G.W. will make it warmer, unless it makes it cooler. It’s becoming difficult to understand climate change, when most of what you read is just shuck and jive. Read more

Is this what passes for newsworthy, insightful scientific research these days? That "Stress about how one does on tests like college entrance exams can make even good math students choke"? I expect the AAAS to tell me, any day now, that if I don’t watch my step, I might slip and fall! Of course good… Read more

This is an old story, but the press is determined to hook up the vegangelists and global warming handwringers, so they can annoy the crap out of the rest of us. My prediction: there will be continual bashing of burger-eating American eco-pirates, nary a word about folks with cattle in Africa or India, and non-stop… Read more

Every time the Save The Planet handwringers crank up the volume about impending doom, Mother Nature gives them–and the rest of us–a good swift kick. Right now it’s 34 degrees* outside, with frozen rain in the forecast, and the first two days of the Spring(!) Semester have been canceled due to inclement weather (and impassable… Read more