Update from the Editor
538Refugees has been parked since the 2012 election. Given the current election activity commentary may resume however the site name and format will change and these articles will exist as an archive on the new site.Actions
-
Recent Posts
Our Latest Tweets
Tweets by 538RefugeesPeople We Think Are Cool
Places We Visit
Post Calendar
June 2023 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Categories
- Conspiracies (14)
- Contender Series (16)
- Free Forum Friday (57)
- Hot Fudge Sunday (32)
- House Series (1)
- Know Thy Enemy (4)
- Poll (6)
- Red Right Returning (29)
- Senate Seat Series (12)
- Uncategorized (486)
Top Clicks
- None
Tag Archives: Global Warming
Obama Bashing: Latest Progressive Sport or Media Meme?
Lately everyone seems to dislike the President. It’s obvious that Republicans as a whole have never taken him seriously but this week several progressive Democrats have been taking shots at him. At the sixth annual Netroots Nation Conference in Minneapolis … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Al Gore, Daniel Pfeiffer, Gay rights, Global Warming, Jared Polis, Netroots Nation, Van Jones
2 Comments
In This Corner…Michele Bachmann
2012 Contender Series: Michele Bachmann (Updated January 4th: Ms. Bachmann officially withdrew from the residential race after a poor showing in the Iowa Caucus. It is expected that she will run for re-election in Minnesota once the redistricting is settled) … Continue reading
Posted in Contender Series
Tagged batshit crazy, Global Warming, Michele Bachmann, Minnesota, Minnesota's 6th congressional district, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, presidential candidate, State of the Union, Tea Party, Tea Party Caucus, Tea Party movement, United States Congress
31 Comments
The Argument for Anthropogenic Global Climate Change
This is a brief argument for AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) that was festering in a previous thread. 2010 was the hottest year on record for global temperatures since records of temperatures were recorded in 1880 and it rather shockingly illustrates … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Climate change, Climate Change Skeptics, Global Warming, Opposing Views
190 Comments
2010: The Trend is Upward
Throughout 2008 and 2009, many conservative pundits spent some effort in trying to convince us that the world was in a “cooling trend.” 2008 and 2009, while still among the warmest years on record, were a bit cooler than a … Continue reading
Science Marches On
On Friday, December 17, the Obama Administration issued a formal memorandum saying that government officials should not interfere with science. [Crickets.] So, why is this an issue at all? I know my fellow liberals are sometimes accused of blaming the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged AGW, Bush, Global Warming, Obama, policy, science, stem cells
94 Comments
I’m Not Stoopid
Voters aren’t stupid. The world is just complex. Our society has gone far away from the days when we were expected to collect our own food from a foodshed that was walkable in under an hour. We are a society of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Afghanistan, Global Warming, Health care, Keynesian economics, Sarah Palin, Specialists, Taliban, Voters
53 Comments
A Shot Heard ‘Round the World
I just returned from a presentation at the University of Oregon’s Law Center given by James Hansen, head of Nasa’s Goddard Institute forSpace Studies in New York City. Hansen has been dubbed the ‘Grandfather of Global Warming’ though he … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged AGW, Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Climate change, Global Warming, James Hansen, Polar ice packs
27 Comments
538 Refugees 