Working in a hippy grocery a few years back, I was amazed and saddened by the huge prevalence of cookie-dependent gluten sensitivities and allergies among upper middle class, middle aged white women. These poor women were utterly unable to even consume something that had been in the same cupboard as flour, but…

We are faced with a catastrophe that threatens us with unprecedented death and destruction and everyone with the slightest understanding of climate science knows it. Somehow, among the poorly educated, propaganda addled masses of America, acknowledging the existence of this catastrophe is "controversial."

Sorry if it makes you uncomfortable being reminded that scientifically literate people tend not to share your politics, but has it ever occurred to you to wonder why that is?

I'd say they made up for it with colorful simile. Can we at least settle on a C+?

Nice troll. I award it a B-.

Poor little baby. How dare IO9 talk about how politics censors science! I want to be happy in my ignorance!

Is the censoring of science not a "science" story?

Environmentalism policies usually end up putting more federal laws in place. The Republican party believes in a free market, that any laws put in to place that affect the flow of business slows it down. Acknowledging that Global Warming exists would mean restricting oil companies and hampering whatever jobs got that…

So we shouldn't be alarmed that we have wrecked the climate of our planet? Then what, pray tell, would arise to the occasion of being alarmed?

How is this article political?

I'm from the other side of the ocean

You know what's even scarier than Fox News? The crazy psychos that watch it and there's a bunch of them. I bet privately, a lot of those people who work for Fox News don't believe the BS they air. But the idiots who watch it do and that's what makes it so dangerous.

Sticking your fingers in your ears and going LALALALALA is a proven successful approach to dealing with the world's issues. Can you ever point to a single instance where it has caused unnecessary deaths?* No you cannot! Ha!

It would be a cooler, if less efficient, infographic if they visualized all 33,200 tires. Which I shall do here!