Downstrike/geoscience

An exposé of several propagandistic falsehoods used by Gobal Warming denialists.

From the page: "The recognition of definitive signatures in the geological record tells us the January 26, 1700 event was not a unique event, but has repeated many times at irregular intervals of hundreds of years. Geological evidence indicates that 13 great earthquakes have occurred in the last 6000 years.

We now know that a similar offshore event will happen sometime in the future and that it represents a considerable hazard to those who live in southwest B.C. However, because the fault is offshore, it is not the greatest earthquake hazard faced by major west coast cities."

Peck, peck, peck... Peep, peep, peep...

Count me in!

From the page: '
"It shows that our climate system has the ability to make very abrupt changes all by itself," said Dahl-Jensen. Some climate-change deniers would say that this proves that mankind is not important in changing the climate.'

Instead of asking whether mankind is important in changing the climate,
we should ask whether the changing climate is important to mankind.

Interview kids. They give you the best news article quotations!

From the page: '

Jessica Chang, 12, was in class working on a math problem in Chino Hills when the shaking began. She said a vase fell on her head but she was not injured.

"When it started, I felt the shaking under my feet," she said. "I thought I was going to die. But my teacher told us to calm down." Her brother, Jayden, 5, piped in that he thought it was a "Tyrannosaurus rex walking."

The aftershocks cracked the walls and floors of homes and buildings in nearby Diamond Bar, said Lt. John Saleeby, the watch commander in the Los Angeles County sheriff's office in that town.

Elizabeth Cespuglio, 17, of Corona, about eight miles from the epicenter, was watching television and working on her computer when the shaking began. She ran to a door frame, as experts advise.

"I always kind of liked quakes when they were tiny," she said by telephone. "But after it lasted longer it kind of freaked me out."'

P.S. Experts DO NOT advise running to a door frame!

This is the correct way to design an online quiz, particularly compared to one I reviewed yesterday.

However, the given answers to some of these questions would be incorrect under some circumstances, and the wording of those questions leaves the user trying to guess the circumstances.

USGS bothered to document this Earthquake in the hills between Hellay and Sanberdoo. Its magnitude is 0.4.

The consensus here is, WHY?