An interesting climate change animation by Bloomberg

The scientific evidence of climate change / global warming is irrefutable. Turning what really is settled science, raising political and ideological objections to it and then claiming that that makes the issue unsettled science is, to put it mildly, too stupid for words. There are so many studies and measurement and statistics that back this up and so few that call it into question even a little tiny bit that I'm not sure what to say to those who simply refuse to accept that we have a serious problem with what is happening to our climate.

Not only is the evidence that our climate is getting warmer irrefutable, it is also irrefutable that the primary driver of this warming is a consequence of what we humans have done and are doing. I have read a wide variety of alternative explanations for why our climate is getting warmer and, quite frankly, I have yet to encounter a non-anthropogenic explanation for global warming that even passes the laugh test.

Here's an interesting animation which illustrates just how fast our climate is changing. I will add more links as I encounter / remember them.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2014-hottest-year-on-record/

Thirteen of the fourteen hottest years are in the 21st century.

What made Bletchley Park possible?

The people, including Alan Turing, who worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War were not only fighting to win the war, they were, in many respects, inventing the foundations for the computer age that we live in today.

Here's a very cool video that gives an interesting perspective on what made it possible for Bletchley Park to play such an important role in the Second World War. The killer quote comes right at the end:

"Many people want to work on the edge of innovation. If they alive in those days, they would have been at Bletchley."

http://youtu.be/3Ky3-Tbkyhg