Carbon Fixated

“At least the number of holocaust deniers only grew by a third.”
The Onion.

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FOI requests have been sent to every university in Britain asking for details about animal experiments. The requests were sent by a convicted animal rights activist.
His motivation:
"We’re putting the FOIs in just to find out what is happening with vivisection at the universities. If they’ve got nothing to hide, then it’s not a [...]

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Skeptical Science is now available as an iPhone App.

Now, that is handy.

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TREES will not uproot themselves and embark on blood-soaked killing sprees by 2035, global warming experts have admitted.
The International Panel on Climate Change confirmed the evidence had not been peer-reviewed and will now amend the section of its 2007 report devoted to ‘killer trees’.
A spokesman said: "It appears the claim was not based [...]

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If you own any shares in companies that produce reflecting telescopes, use differential and integral calculus, or rely on the laws of motion, I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the calculus myth has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after volumes of Newton’s private correspondence were compiled and published.
When you read [...]

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The Global Language Monitor reports that the top words of the decade were ‘Global Warming’, with ‘Climate Change’ the top phrase. ‘Global Warming’ was rated highly from the very first day of the decade. In 2008, ‘Global Warming’ was the top phrase of the year, while in 2007 it was ‘Climate Change’.

That, despite [...]

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NOAA has reported that October 2009 was the 3rd coldest on record in the continental US.
The average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest based on preliminary data.
For the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record.
If after that, you wondered [...]

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There’s a list of 450 “peer reviewed papers supporting skepticism of ‘man-made’ global warming” making the rounds on the internet. Let’s take a closer look at it.
When peer review doesn’t mean peer review
Take a glance at that list, and it just leaps out at you: so many of the papers are all from the same [...]

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What happens when climate change moves faster than plants can migrate?
It’s a good question. Throughout the history of life on Earth, species have shifted where they live in response to changing environmental conditions. Abrupt changes in climate and the environment  can outpace the speed at which plants can adapt. The consequence is local extinction. [...]

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The alpine and tundra wildflower Dryas octopetala has the honour of lending its name to a period of climate change called the Younger Dryas, around 10,000 years ago, when glacial conditions rapidly set in across the higher Northern Hemisphere. Pollen from the Dryas flower suddenly began to appear in ice cores. The abrupt arrival [...]

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