Environment:
While going to college increases Democrats' belief that humans are responsible for global warming, it decreases Republicans' belief that humans are responsible for global warming.
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Posted on May 12, 2008 9:54 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
When I was talking to my parents on the phone last night, my father told me about a guest op-ed in the Press and Sun-Bulletin that might be of interest to some ScienceBlogs readers and bloggers: As if there aren't...
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Posted on April 7, 2008 8:12 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at Arcane Gazebo, Travis talks about commuting, based on an Ezra Klein post: Longtime readers know my obsession with the way we overvalue positional goods like money, prestige, and real estate and undervalue non-positional goods like social connections, walking...
Posted on February 22, 2008 8:36 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you could develop some sort of magic carbon sequestration program that would capture every gram of greenhouse gas emitted by a coal-fired power plant, would you still have a problem because of the direct heat produced by burning the coal?
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Posted on February 19, 2008 9:53 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Washington Post has an article this morning headlined Navy Wins Exemption From Bush to Continue Sonar Exercises in Calif.: The White House has exempted the Navy from two major environmental laws in an effort to free the service from...
Posted on January 17, 2008 9:22 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A demonstration in two pictures.
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Posted on December 3, 2007 11:38 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
We live just a few blocks away from the local high school, which has had some sort of massive construction project going on for a few months now. I've been wondering what created the giant pile of dirt to one...
Posted on November 23, 2007 8:28 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As you're probably aware, a cyclone hit Bangladesh yesterday, and has wreaked a good deal of havoc on what is already a fairly fragile country. Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum have been all over this, and are urging people to...
Posted on November 16, 2007 2:32 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How much rain is a ton?
Posted on October 28, 2007 11:25 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Even if we get high-efficiency solar cells, solar power is not a fast solution to our energy problems.
Posted on October 18, 2007 8:49 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Does anybody make energy efficient refrigerators in smaller sizes?
Posted on October 14, 2007 1:44 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
(WASHINGTON, DC) On the heels of reports from Oslo that the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former US Vice President Al Gore, a White House spokesman issued a statement...
Posted on October 12, 2007 8:34 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here's another post to highlight a worthy proposal with a good science connection. "Little Scientists" is looking to bring marine habitats to pre-kindergarten students in Buffalo: Animals and life sciences are of particular interest to young children, so we try...
Posted on October 9, 2007 11:53 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
An AP teacher at the edge of the Catskills needs funding to help students explore the environment.
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Posted on October 9, 2007 9:32 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One of our senior physics majors has made a video promoting sustainability to students, and posted it on YouTube. I need to figure out the best way to link it from the department web page, but it occurs to me...
Posted on September 14, 2007 8:38 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On the way in from the parking lot yesterday, I caught up with a colleague from Mechanical Engineering, who was on a bike, but had stopped to look at one of the local raptors. There are at least two...
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Posted on July 4, 2007 9:25 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
