3 signs the climate op-ed you re reading is full of it
The Camp Fire burning in California in 2018.
Image: U.S. Geological Survey / processed by Pierre Markuse
Shoddy climate opinion articles are like zombies.
Washington Post opinion section on May 14, was written by a Fox News contributor and political columnist at the
Post with the headline, An Obama scientist debunks the climate doom-mongers. Â
There s actually only one person implied as a doom-monger in the opinion article â the current presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, who s not much of a doomist, but does aim to fulfill the Paris Agreement, the United Nations climate pact agreed upon by all the world s nations. Of course, most climate scientists, like those who create deeply vetted climate reports for the UN, aren t doom-mongers. Just the opposite: Climate scientists
Previous researchers suggested the climate must have been wetter than it is now for people to migrate to Eurasia by crossing the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.
Images above: Glaciers from the Vatnajökull ice cap, in Iceland
Brendan Pattengale is a photographer who explores how color can convey emotions in an image. In his photo illustrations throughout this article, the colors of the original photos have been adjusted, but the images are otherwise unaltered.
This article was published online on February 3, 2021.
Updated at 1:53 p.m. ET on February 11, 2021.
We live on a wild planet, a wobbly, erupting, ocean-sloshed orb that careens around a giant thermonuclear explosion in the void. Big rocks whiz by overhead, and here on the Earth’s surface, whole continents crash together, rip apart, and occasionally turn inside out, killing nearly everything. Our planet is fickle. When the unseen tug of celestial bodies points Earth toward a new North Star, for instance, the shift in sunlight can dry up the Sahara, or fill it with hippopotamuses. Of more immediate interest today, a variation in the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere of as li
The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record Peter Brannen
Images above: Glaciers from the Vatnajökull ice cap, in Iceland
Brendan Pattengale is a photographer who explores how color can convey emotions in an image. In his photo illustrations throughout this article, the colors of the original photos have been adjusted, but the images are otherwise unaltered.
This article was published online on February 3, 2021.
We live on a wild planet, a wobbly, erupting, ocean-sloshed orb that careens around a giant thermonuclear explosion in the void. Big rocks whiz by overhead, and here on the Earth’s surface, whole continents crash together, rip apart, and occasionally turn inside out, killing nearly everything. Our planet is fickle. When the unseen tug of celestial bodies points Earth toward a new North Star, for instance, the shift in sunlight can dry up the Sahara, or fill it with hippopotamuses. Of more immediate interest today, a variation i
Over 6,000 teachers responded to the survey, which also covered the topics of stress and burnout.
MSTA Executive Director Bruce Moe said the pandemic has placed additional strain on teachers and students, which can affect testing outcomes. It s not opposition to standardized testing, per se. It s opposition to testing this year, Moe said.
The Missouri Assessment Program or MAP Test is used by the state to hold schools accountable and provide accreditation.
The Missouri School Board voted in December to carry on with standardized testing, but the tests will not be subject to state and federal accountability standards.
Suspending the tests would require a federal waiver because the testing is mandated by the federal government.Â