John Boehner – Insight Sciences

What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers?

September 3, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers?
fastcoexist.com

We give hurricanes such friendly, blameless names. What did Sandy ever do to anyone? An advocacy group wants to name disastrous storms after the politicians who are blocking effective climate policy.

Spare a thought for people named Ivan,…

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What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers? (fastcoexist.com)
Climate Name Change aims to connect deniers to storms (treehugger.com)

Sarah Palin, fruit flies and science funding

January 1, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

The Fiscal Cliff Is Forcing a Biomedical Day of Reckoning
Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com

Luke TimmermanSarah Palin, the onetime candidate for the second-highest elected office in the U.S., once delivered a rant on the campaign trail about waste she perceived in federal support of fruit fly research.Scientists everywhere were…

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Watch the Palin Turkey Massacre Again, Because ‘Tradition’ (wonkette.com)
Conservatives Want to Fire John Boehner and Replace Him With Sarah Palin (politicususa.com)