Earth's 5 warmest years on record have occurred since 2014
No land areas were record cold for the year
Given the lies Trump continues to spout on Twitter about global warming, the above is a damning statistic.
Click through to see interactive globes of temperatures from 1921-1969 vs 1970-2016.
Posted 7th Feb 2019 @ 15:00
The last time humans engineered the climate, they changed history
We're a horrible species, with little regard for the resources we have available to us. Almost 500 years ago:
The deaths of some 55 million native people to pandemic disease over less than a century, representing 90% of the inhabitants of North and South America — and 10% of the world population.
The effects of losing so many people?
A reforestation of their now-fallow farms, covering a combined area about the size of France, causing a massive and sustained amount of carbon to be sucked from the atmosphere.
Posted 5th Feb 2019 @ 18:00
The real lesson of Facebook's Apple dust-up shows why Zuckerberg's 'hacker way' is even more dangerous than we thought
Something John Gruber and John Moltz covered on The Talk Show last week. I would have dropped Facebook from the App Store completely.
Posted 5th Feb 2019 @ 15:00