"Beyond Words!"
Eric Sorensen, WQAD,
reporting via Facebook Live in downtown Davenport just after the flood barriers broke in 2019
Bar Chart Race - The Countries with the Largest CO2 Emissions in the World
Observable
"Those 3% of Scientific Papers that Deny Climate Change? A Review Found Them All Flawed"
2017 Quartz summary of a Theoretical and Applied Climatology peer-reviewed journal article
American Culture and Climate Science
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, 2019 Climate Opinion Map for Scott County (click map to compare Rock Island & other counties)
One of America's shortfalls is our uniquely combative relationship to scientific authority. It has long been our country's habit to elevate itself above others and to displace blame onto people in faraway lands, but if we are to play a significantly positive global role in the 21st century, we will need to increase our ability to recognize and take seriously the work of appropriately trained scientists.