Irish Class, January 30, 2012
Rang Gaeilge, 30ú lá mí Eanáir 2012
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Irish Class, January 30, 2012
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While temperatures rise, denialists reach lower
The WSJ OpEd makes a lot of hay from having 16 scientists sign it, but of those only 4 are actually climate scientists. And that bragging right is crushed to dust when you find out that the WSJ turned down an article about the reality of global warming that was signed by 255 actual climate scientists. In fact, as Media Matters reports, more of the signers of the WSJ OpEd have ties to oil interests than actually publish peer-reviewed climate research.
Also see the links here.
The newest George Lucas production, Red Tails, forces a Star Wars nerd to come to terms with a troubling philosophy
From faith stems nuance. From myth, generalities. And, sadly for us, the spirit of myth is winning: We revere Star Wars because to our minds—modern machines that equate religion with superstition and are willing to disregard imperfections in science but never in dogma—the movies represent transcendentalist humanism at its best, a perfect manifestation of that noxious label, “spiritual,” that people use to describe themselves when they’re too dull to believe in religion and too dim to understand science. This is why the Force has become the organizing metaphor of our time; there’s no better one for those who believe that if we only open our hearts and understand people are all the same and all good we’d be enlightened enough to lift rocks with a tilt of our heads.
Just how idiotic is this logic will become evident when we examine the controversy known in geekdom as the “Han Shot First” incident….
(My emphasis)
By way of the Episcopal Cafe.
NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record
Reported in NASA Finds 2011 is Ninth-Warmest Year on Record and 2011: The 9th hottest year on record.
Also 2011 Climate Change in Pictures and Data: Just the Facts
MIT Climate Scientist’s Wife Threatened in a “Frenzy of Hate” and Cyberbullying Fomented by Deniers
From the Bad Astronomer
For those saying we should launch Newt to the Moon, please be serious. We don’t have that kind of launch capacity for his ego.