There was a report by Nancy Snyderman on NBC last night that made a very good point. People no longer see these diseases because of vaccines. But because they don't see them, they no longer respect them. They equate measles and mumps with other childhood viruses like chicken pox so it's no big deal, a nuisance. In…

You are ignoring the history of railroads. Until just the last few years, most railroads continued to pay a "fireman" to ride in the cab of their diesel locomotives, despite the fact that the role of the fireman to shovel coal into a steam boiler was totally obviated fifty years ago by the advent of diesel…

The law is fluid. If it's someone they support then emails are private. If it is someone they disagree with and their emails can be used against them, then it's fair game. Being liberal means being a hypocrite.

Certainly there has never been a scandal involving global warming and emails!

so just to be clear, you guys on IO9 are cool with not releasing private emails? I only ask because you seem very inconsistent with applying that standard.

Virginia's top court: "Feel free to hide the evidence that the skeptics are right."

pretty sure that Africa is usually called the Dark continent. Not trying to be a prick, just saying, as wildly innapaprotiate as it sounds now, I thought Africa got the nickname in the 1800s, and have never heard Antarctica called the dark continent.

The invention of manhattan solved so many measurement problems.

If AGW is a thing, it is a proven non-problem. We couldn't effect a change if it were. If decreasing the level of CO2 output were feasible, we wouldn't have to force companies to do it (for example, there are no coal plants being built right now because natural gas is so plentiful and cheap). CO2 obsessive mandates…

Without innovation in electricity generation, Nuclear is really the only viable alternative for reliable energy sources, which most renewables don't qualify as.

I still think we should ignore the stigma of nuclear and go for that.

And we had the coolest temps on record.

Check your math. Considering that China has almost 4x the population of the US and Canada combined, that makes them a bigger polluter by far. Using per capita numbers is irrelevant when we're talking global pollution levels.

As for desalination 'technology'... all you need is a glass beaker, a small tube at the top and…

71% of this damn planet is water and we still can't figure out how to prevent shortages? (Yes I am aware science salt water energy to salinize and purify water blah blah blah we're humans we put a fucking man on the moon come on people let's do this)

I'd like to hope so. My dad was talking about how back in the '70's, all the "experts" talked of it obvious oil would run out by the '80's and population of 10 billion by 2000. Not saying we shouldn't try to fix it but to quote Peter Dinklage in the underrated sci-fi series Threshold: "People have been predicting the…

Speaking cold-bloodedly, the US, and more broadly, North America will be fine come what may. We have the wealth, technology, and know how to weather a 3 degree rise in temps. I also don't think we'll see 3 degrees and I don't think the Earth will see anything like what they're forecasting.

If Kinja had karma, I'd upvote the shit out of you for a WKRP in Cincinatti reference. I miss Lonnie Anderson's boobs :(

Worst since '78.

I just watched "Pandora's Promise" this weekend, and had a quite a laugh when they showed footage from this 70's-era environmental festival; a folk singer group literally sang about not wanting to pollute the environment and their home by using nuclear power instead of a woodburning fire. Fast-forward to 2014, and…

Honestly, have to go with Last Starfighter on this. Such nobility, right to the end.