Skeptophilia

Ellesmere Island would be high on the list of the Earth's most inhospitable places. It's huge, only slightly smaller in area than B...

Yesterday's post, in which I skated backward through geologic time into the deep past, alluded to a few really bad times the Earth has b...

In today's installment of Ruminations About Science That Should Scare The Piss Out Of You, we have: the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum...

In what can only be described as a confluence of terrible news, catastrophically strong Hurricane Florence is now taking direct aim at North...