Science demands repeatability, to make sure you’re not getting a one-off anomaly.  John Colapinto, author and columnist This has been the case from the time of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. It is why atmospheric scientists true to their discipline cannot say outright that global heating is the cause of extreme weather until there is enough […]

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. Douglas Adams, author