“We are the first generation to grow up learning about [climate change], and we’re also the last generation who really get the opportunity to tackle it.” – Finn Harries Climate change is not a foreign concept. In fact, I would be willing to bet that we have all heard the dramatic lectures on this topic […]
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After Senator James Inhofe “proved”—by lobbing a snowball—that 2014 couldn’t have been the hottest year on record and that global warming can’t be a thing because the chilliest regions of the US obviously make up the entire globe, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse gave the above response. Who do you think makes more sense: A) the backward […]
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Above is one of It’s Okay To Be Smart‘s many science videos. Created, hosted, and written by Joe Hanson — a PhD-wielding biologist and science writer based in Austin, TX — this PBS Digital Studios series uses humor and easy-to-follow animation to explain things like “The Physics Of Space Battles” and “Where Do Birds Go In Winter?” and…”Goats!” Check out […]
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The above video (cleanly and interestingly animated) explains the dirty, dangerous process of fracking and why natural gas should just be left in the ground. Edward James Olmos narrates with his usual quiet authority, and though he doesn’t say so, I’m sure he’d agree with me that we all need to tell the frackers of the world […]
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If you, unlike the most powerful portion of the people at Fox News, believe that climate scientists actually know stuff and aren’t just pathological schemers bent on making the world a cleaner place simply to boost sales of solar panels or something, then you may have already heard of—or even read—the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent […]
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