Source: Global warming myths, disinformation and lies circulated in 2022

Source: Can We Plow Through the Blizzard of Nonsense?

When you’ve spent your life working on the climate crisis, good news is hard to come by. So perhaps I’m jumping the gun—but I find myself feeling just the tiniest bit optimistic in recent days about the bottom line general health of our society.

This is […]

Source: Insects and us: a mind-blowing 20 quadrillion ants and what they mean for the planet | Insects | The Guardian

To most of us, they are small, uninteresting and sometimes annoying, but 2022 revealed just how ubiquitous ants are and how indispensable they are to the planet. Scientists revealed in September that there are an […]

Source: Fusion vs Fission

Earlier this month, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used 192 lasers firing for billionths of a second to fuse hydrogen atoms in a tiny gold capsule into helium. For the first time, this experiment released more energy than the laser energy aimed at the capsule (although still just a fraction of the overall […]

Source: How to Be a Good Person Without Annoying Everyone – The Atlantic

You’ve heard the joke: How do you know someone’s vegan? Don’t worry; they’ll tell you. The punch line to the punch line, though, is that they very deliberately may not.

Vegans and vegetarians are aware of their reputation as sanctimonious killjoys—so aware that nearly […]