Be a Fake News Detecter

How to be a human lie detector of fake news, according to the latest science

Snopes, PolitiFact and TruthOrFiction.com.

The researchers concluded that "falsehood diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of information."

Indonesia is burning too

NY Times article on Indonesian fires. This happens every year here in Indonesia, far away from where we are. Can't get in the way of progress. It doesn't get to us noticable here in Bali but Malaysia and Singapore get heavy smoke from it. We've been there when it was too much to go for a walk outside. - thanks Gregory

Should Scientists let on that they're Scared of what's happening?

Pace of climate change frightening scientists, especially because they don't see an approrpriate response. Should they publish their feelings or just data? - From BBC

Caffeinated Tea

Had a cup of green tea today. First caffeinated tea I've had in three weeks. The reason for that is my stomach has been bothering me for half a year - tightness in upper abdomin, sometimes aching. Had a pretty large hernia and chronic constipation too which is unusual for me. So I'd been seeing what they call here a gastric surgeon about those problems. After some tests, he said I had an irritated stomach wall with a small ulcer. He did not prescribe medicine, just told me to eat lots of fibre which I already did - and he knew I'd cut out spicey, fried, and rich food. We're almost vegan to begin with.

Naomi Klein

Interview in Guardian with Naomi Klein. She is a visionary with important things to say about Climate Change, how it is tied to other issues, has to be dealt with on a grand scale. 

SF6 - the strongest Greenhouse Gas

BBC reports on SF6 - 23,500 times stronger than C02. Used in electrical industry

Weather or not it's Climate, it's Changing

Nature, magazine of Science, Climate Change section gets into the the nitty gritty of the daily march of byproduct of greenhouse gasses getting liberated from the ground. One can also click on the Nature home page link to see what else they're reporting.