Thursday, February 6th, marked the warmest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica—18.3° Celsius, which is 64.9° Fahrenheit—at the northern tip of the Antarctica peninsula. Three days later, on February 9th, that record temperature was reportedly eclipsed on Antarctica’s Seymour Island, which recorded a temperature of 20.75° Celsius, or 69.35° Fahrenheit. As Read more…
In Chapter 11 of my book, Beyond Blind Faith (which you can read here: https://dondavidson.net/apocalypse-soon/) I noted that climate change will promote the spread of various diseases, and for a variety of reasons. But here’s another scary possibility: climate change may also hurt our ability to fight off disease. In Read more…
Locusts in Africa are worse than they’ve been in seventy years, and it’s due to climate change. Warmer, wetter conditions in eastern Africa, caused by the warming of the Indian Ocean, have created ideal conditions for desert locusts to breed in huge numbers—up to 150 million per square kilometer. This Read more…
(Back to Part 1) B.P. was a Christian who had thought about and studied these same questions, and he had answers. He made me see that I was shooting at a mirage. The religion for which I had such contempt could be found only in church traditions, dusty books, and bad sermons—not Read more…
My Faith Journey. I grew up as an agnostic. At about age fifteen, I briefly and naively embraced Christianity, but my newborn faith quickly fizzled when my father assailed it with tough questions for which I had no answers (many of which are addressed in my first book, Beyond Blind Read more…