Human tastes are capricious. What some of us like, others hate. What you hate one year, you may grow to love later on. But there is one taste that is almost universally liked: sweetness. When the tongue comes in contact with sugars (and non-sugar sweet…
Four reasons to worry about global warming beyond scientific consensus
Yesterday I was struck by a Forbes headline, ‘97% Of Climate Scientists Agree’ is 100% Wrong… I decided to expand on this post by giving some climate scientists a chance weigh in… That’s the greenhouse effect. And there’s ample data showing that we’ve changed the composition of the atmosphere enough to alter the global climate. In fact, human activity has nearly doubled our atmosphere’s load of carbon dioxide since the Industrial Revolution started. “The basics behind this are the laws of physics,” said Ben Horton a professor of marine and coastal sciences at Rutgers University.
