Tag Archives: oceanic studies

Incredibly powerful ad campaign reminds swing state voters of Romney’s dismissive comments on global climate change prior to Hurricane Sandy

By Mark | November 3, 2012

As we’ve discussed before, during the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney took the stage, and, pandering to the far right of his increasingly anti-scinece party, made a dismissive joke about extreme weather brought about as a result of global climate change. Romney, pointing out to his fellow Republicans that Obama not only believed in global […]

Posted in Environment, Politics | Also tagged global climate change, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Hurricane Sandy, Munich Re, NASA, Obama, ocean temperatures, RNC, Romney | 22 Comments

The possibility of a public boarding school in Detroit

By Mark | February 8, 2010

I’m sitting here tonight, thinking about all of the stuff I should be writing about, like the EMU student with tuberculosis and Rick Snyder’s “One Tough Nerd” gubernatorial ad, but all I really feel like discussing is this article in the Free Press today about the state of Detroit’s public schools. Maybe it has something […]