It's Earth Day, do you know where your scientists are marching today?

Daisy the Science Pup leading #ScienceMarchLdn! #MarchForScience #ScienceMarch pic.twitter.com/lGx4xQdAAt

— March for ScienceLDN (@LDNsciencemarch) April 22, 2017

Courtesy of USA Today: 

Thousands of people — scientists and their champions — are expected to descend on Washington Saturday and turn out in hundreds of cities worldwide to use Earth Day as a vehicle to show public support for what they feel is a trend against using scientific evidence for govrnment policymaking. 

While billing itself as nonpartisan, the March for Science movement, including rallies and marches in more than 600 communities, clearly sees the Trump administration, which has expressed skepticism of man's role in climate change and has eased regulations on coal and oil production, as a threat to science.

Of particular concern to critics is the Trump administration's budget that calls for sizable cuts in funding for the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy's Office of Science.

Organizers of the march encouraged scientists in their ranks to wear their lab coats, goggles, stethoscopes, field gear and other work clothes to make their presence known among a group that frequently shies away from public political displays.

Much like the Women's March the day after the inauguration this will be yet another demonstration of the public's concern about the danger posed by the Trump Administration, and the Republican party in general, to our civil rights and our ability to be informed.

There are literally marches all over the world, so if you want to participate take a look here to find one in your area.

If, like me, you are unable to attend due to work responsibilities or other considerations you can follow the marches on Facebook by clicking here.

Viva la Resistance!

Sarah Palin uses Earth Day as an opportunity to slam President Obama and pimp her climate change denying propaganda. Update!

Courtesy of Know Nothing of the North's Facebook page:

Heads Up, America! 

On “Earth Day" instead of progressing toward true conservationism and responsibly using the earth's natural resources to secure our nation, Barack Obama is throwing America's opportunities to the back of the bus. Unbeknownst to most of his constituency, Obama will be signing us on to the nonsensical and dangerous United Nations Paris Agreement on Climate Change. It's great news for China, India and everyone with low- to non-existent environmental standards eagerly producing the things we used to produce; it's sucky news for Americans trying to energize our homes, businesses and communities. 

To learn more, see the movie “Climate Hustle” in theaters nationwide May 2nd for a one-night event. I was honored to participate in the exclusive panel discussion to be shown following the film. 

We MUST be aware of Big Government cheerleaders' mission to stymie U.S. development and job opportunities by using bogus weather arguments that substitute real science for political b.s., all in the name of "fundamentally transforming America."

Okay at this point I think it is safe to assume that Palin has some kind of financial stake in the success of this film. At this time she has mentioned the movie not once, not twice, but SEVEN different times on her Facebook page.

I am not sure she has even denied faking her last pregnancy that many times.

So yes in Palin's world President Obama is the bad guy for working to convince other people to help save the planet. That son-of-a-bitch!

This is usually where I would point out how ridiculous it is for any Alaskan to deny the climate change that we cannot help but notice happening all around us, but let's face it Sarah Palin occupies an alternative reality where even personal experience cannot shake her desire to receive a payday for pimping anti-science horse shit to the masses.

Update: Here is more about Marc Marano, the guy behind this "documentary," courtesy of the Daily Mail, who tells us among other things that Marano receives money from fossil fuel companies, once worked as a producer for Rush Limbaugh, and was instrumental in the "swift boating" of John Kerry in 2004.

Just President Obama and Bill Nye discussing science in the Florida Everglades.

I actually found this exchange to be very enjoyable to watch.

The two men seem at ease with each other and have a natural rapport that comes across well in the video.

I liked it when the President called the Republicans out on their whole "I'm not a scientist" excuse.

"I'm not a scientist either, but I know a lot of scientists, I have the capacity to understand science, I have the capacity to look at facts and base my conclusions on evidence."

Excellent, and of course obvious, point.

I also could not help but notice that Nye was sweating like a prisoner in a Florida prison sweat box, while Obama looked cool and comfortable. (Must be from having grown up in Hawaii.)

As some of you might have read the conservatives decided to attack the President for wasting jet fuel to visit the Everglades on Earth Day.

This was Bill Nye's response to that: 

When Nye tweeted about the trip, political conservatives made a giant fuss about the amount of energy the trip consumed, and, Nye says, attacked him pretty personally. 

“That it uses a lot of fossil fuel for the president to move around is a necessary evil at this time,” Nye responds. “Earth Day is not ‘stay home from work’ day. It’s ‘let’s change the world’ day.”

It's kind of like watching intellectual fencing when one side has nothing but a limp noodle with which to parry and thrust.