William M. Briggs

Will Climate Change Kill One-Sixth Of All Species?

Today's headline was prompted by Mark Urban's peer-reviewed paper in Science "Accelerating extinction risk from climate change", which assures us that if we don't "do something", this is the end…

Culture

Columbia University Concludes All Western Civilization Triggering

Word from Columbia University is that yet another female creature was triggered. Our victim was in her "Lit Hum" class---Columbia is, and soon to be "was", one of the few…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: On God’s Omniscience

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We sped…

Culture

“Are You Nice?”

The Editor reminds everybody to be nice and asks if you have a minute to notice the author's name. New York City is littered with groups with causes, especially since…

Culture

This Week In Doom: A Riotously Good Time

Because this week has been especially doom-laden, we're pushing up our bulletin a full day. Indeed, conditions were so rank these past seven days that they almost qualify to be…

Culture

What Does Losing Tax Exempt Status Of Churches Mean? Or, The SSM Takedown. Updates

We've been busy with all things sustainability, so it's only now we can get to the Supreme Court's oral arguments over whether to abandon marriage and give over to the…

Philosophy Statistics

Crisis: Vatican Burns with Global Warming Enthusiasm (And Temperature Fiddling)

Today's post is at Crisis. The title the editor John Vella wrote is AUs---parsecs, even---above mine. His: "Vatican Burns with Global Warming Enthusiasm". Mine? "The Church Burns To Jump Into…

Culture

Catholic Climate Change Conference: Consensus Confusion. Updates

So the Vatican conference is off and running. I'm not there, and have no insider view, so that best that can be done is to point our telescopes that direction.…

Cary Cotterman on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
I live near Loma Linda, California, where temperatures are normally 90 degrees F. or higher at least six months per…
Brian (bulaoren) on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
It's not the heat, it's the humidity
Uncle Mike on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
Warmer Is Better Rational#473: people live longer in warm climes! Absoheatinglutely. Correlation IS causation. Ha! I knew it all along.…
Paul Murphy on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
umm... does it make sense to ask whether yearly climate variability affects lifespans? Michigan, for example, is very hot and…
Michael Dowd on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
Factor to consider: Florida has a significant number of old folks who immigrated. They then start riding bicycles, walking, getting…

William M. Briggs

“Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!

David Hume’s Anti-Miracles Argument Is Poor

The Case For Ending Government Funding of Science

Class 41: What Is Cause Like?

Catholicism Vs The US Conference of Catholic Bishops — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

On Scott Adams’s Vax-Decision Analysis

Against The Anthropic Principle

Class 40: Welcome To Cause!

It’s Okay To Trust DOGE To Cut Cut Cut: Stream

Time To End Bad Science Like This

2,800 — And Growing — Scientists Butthurt Over Elon Musk Squeal To The Royal Society

Class 39: Trust Your Equations! (Bayes)

“Feminism Is A Disease Of The Rich”

Trump Slashing The Cancerous “The Science” Bloat: Cut Cut Cut!

On The Probability Of Large Rocks From Space!

Class 38: Truly Random & Information Complexity

The Path To Victory

On Various New Values Of P(Doom)

Putting The Stargate AI Hype Into Perspective (Stream)

Class 37: Simulations Aren’t What You Think

On The Limitations of AI: Predictions

“Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!

David Hume’s Anti-Miracles Argument Is Poor

Will Climate Change Kill One-Sixth Of All Species?

Columbia University Concludes All Western Civilization Triggering

Summary Against Modern Thought: On God’s Omniscience

“Are You Nice?”

This Week In Doom: A Riotously Good Time

What Does Losing Tax Exempt Status Of Churches Mean? Or, The SSM Takedown. Updates

Crisis: Vatican Burns with Global Warming Enthusiasm (And Temperature Fiddling)

Catholic Climate Change Conference: Consensus Confusion. Updates

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification