I have been warning you for years about the death and misery that would arise caused by climate change. The Republican Party has been blocking significant policies to prepare for climate change, and about a third of MAGAt world still doesn’t really accept the implications of climate change. Well, here is a first report. And this is just the very beginning.
A Somali woman and child wait to be given a spot to settle at a camp for displaced people amid a drought on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Sept. 20, 2022. Credit: Jerome Delay / AP
In the early 2000s, as climate denialism was infecting political institutions around the world like a malevolent plague, an Australian epidemiologist named Anthony McMichael took on a peculiar and morbid scientific question: How many people were being killed by climate change? McMichael’s research team tallied up how many lives had been lost to diarrheal disease, malnutrition, malaria, cardiovascular disease (a proxy for heat-related illness), and flooding, worldwide, in the year 2000. The researchers then used computer modeling to parse out the percentage of those deaths that were attributable to climate change. Climate change, they estimated, was responsible for 166,000 lives lost that year.
The world has changed a great deal since. Climate denialism is no longer the world’s de facto climate policy, in large part because the impacts of rising temperatures have become impossible to […]
There is so much bad news, that I thought readers might be interested in these new archaeological discoveries that rewrite the history of our ancient past. We think we have it all worked out, only to have new discoveries rewrite the book.
Credit: Baker, Rigaud, et al.
Your choice in jewelry can say a lot about you: That you follow a particular religion, graduated with an engineering degree, or you’re just a fan of the latest viral aesthetic.
Now, new research shows that jewelry was just as important for distinguishing different cultures in ancient Europe as it is for signaling your allegiance to a particular group today.
The study, published in Nature Human Behaviour, reveals the existence of nine distinct groups that were lost to time and haven’t conclusively shown up in genetic data. Through the study of ancient artifacts, researchers were able to identify previously-unknown cultures living across Europe between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago, showing the power of these artifacts in writing our complex human histories.
The research focused on people who archeologists had previously thought all belonged to a single group called the Gravettians—Ice Age hunter-gatherers who braved the bitter cold and created some of the most iconic artifacts we know about today, including voluptuous sculptures like the
This is the level of stupidity to which the Republican Party and its voters have sunk. MAGAt moron Republican Representative of Seymour, Indiana Jim Lucas, when visited at the state capitol by students concerned about gun violence flashed his gun to show them that he was carrying a firearm. I do not understand how the people of Seymour, Indiana could vote for such a person, but they did.
MAGAt moron Republican Jim Lucas of Indiana flashing his gun in front of students in the Indiana capitol
A day after he was caught flashing his gun to a group of high-school students visiting the Statehouse to advocate against gun violence, Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, is facing increasing criticism for his actions and calls to apologize.
Lucas was captured on video Tuesday talking to a group of students from Burris Laboratory School in Muncie. The students, members of Students Demand Action, had traveled to the Statehouse for Advocacy Day, hosted by Moms Demand Action, for constituents to talk to lawmakers about their concerns over school shootings and taking action to curb gun violence.
While sharing his views that people should have guns to protect themselves, Lucas opened his suit jacket to reveal a handgun holstered to his hip. “I’m carrying right now,” he told the students.
Lucas defended his action, saying he was trying to teach the students that many citizens carry guns. However, students told TheStatehouseFile.com that they felt unsafe and threatened when Lucas revealed his weapon.
Rep. Sue Errington, D-Muncie, said she hopes Lucas will reflect on his interaction with the students. […]
