Climate Change | John Brandenburg

Potholer54 Vs. Tony Heller: Part 2

A picture of a landscape. In the foreground is a nondescript building, and some street lights. Above the buildings the sky fades from pink to dark blue-gray. In the middle of the sky, below the blue-gray clouds is a bright beam of a rainbow.

The showdown between climate change skeptic Tony Heller and science reporter Peter Hadfield continues in their youtube feud.

Potholer54 Vs. Tony Heller

A children's book about planets opened to a page about the earth, which is pictured as a mirrored image. An obvious mistake from the book's publisher.

Pictured above: I bought this children's book about planets for my son in the book store bargain bin. The page about the earth, is pictured as a mirrored image. An obvious mistake from the book's publisher.

Scott Adams’ Climate Challenge

Discussing complex scientific concepts in a medium limited to 240 character messages is probably the worst idea anyone has come up with. Yet here I am, allowing myself to get dragged into drawn out discussions with armchair “skeptics” who don’t really deserve that label. A few weeks ago, Scott Adams, famous as being the creator of the Dilbert comic strip (to his credit, I love these comics), issued a “Climate Challenge” on twitter. Here is his tweet: