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In The Truth About Animals , author Lucy Cooke explains how incredibly wrong our ancestors got the facts about many animals because of our prejudices. The animals—sloths, bats, vultures, beavers, and many more—are still around and are now understood quite well. But it’s difficult today to imagine how strongly our ancestors believed the most ludicrous myths (migrating birds flew to the moon in winter) about these creatures. A little objective reasoning and keener observations would have relieved many people of their wild untruths about even the most common of animals. Will those for whom we will someday be their ancestors wonder in jaw-dropping incredulity at our unbelievable intransigence on Climate Change ? Why, might they ask, were we not convinced by the science of the day and the facts staring us right in the face? The answer is that we too still hold prejudices about reality. In our case, it may be because the implications of our admitting the enormity of the crisis keeps putting ...

As I write, the worst possible candidate to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just got installed . It is terrible because it is via the EPA we get our legal authority to address Climate Change on a scale that will matter. States can do much, but it’s the feds that create a level playing field. So, Pruitt’s political (not scientific) confirmation could be a serious problem for our life support system. #ScienceMatters Climate Change is affected by our politics in the sense that politics can affect humanity’s collective response to this crisis. But, at the end of the day, it is climate indicators, climate feedback mechanisms in our environment, that will determine whether we are making progress or not. Basically, climate change indicators are things like: “ Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,  Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,  Atmospheric Concentrations of Greenhouse Gases ,  Climate Forcing ,  U.S. and Global Temperature ,  High and Low Temperatures ,  U.S. ...