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Pervasive Political Interference at the EPA
Last week's report by the UCS indicates that the EPA has become little more than another political tool for the Bush Administration.Posted on April 30, 2008 2:58 PM • 3 Comments •
Best Headline Ever: "Creature from Hell Promises Salvation"
Researchers discover methane-metabolizing bacteria that thrive in extreme environments and may have implications for global warming.Posted on November 22, 2007 6:25 PM • 3 Comments •
Schwarzenegger Approves Condor Protection Bill, but Damage Already Done
It will take two rights to make up for this wrong.Posted on October 15, 2007 7:39 AM • 9 Comments •
Blog Action Day on the Environment: October 15th
Tomorrow, 15 October, is the inaugural Blog Action Day. This means that thousands of bloggers from across the internet will publish posts on a single topic: the environment. So far over 14,000 blogs have signed up, with an estimated audience...Posted on October 14, 2007 1:50 PM • 0 Comments •
Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Al Gore and the IPCC
For gaging scientific consensus on global warming and taking that message to the public.Posted on October 12, 2007 6:11 AM • 1 Comments •
Science and Politics Create the Perfect Storm in Chris Mooney's Storm World
From the earliest days of hurricane science to the record-breaking 2005 hurricane season, Mooney's Storm World covers the scientific controversies that have fueled today's wild political and scientific debate over the link between hurricanes and global warming.Posted on September 25, 2007 7:39 AM • 0 Comments •
It's Time to Get Off the Bottle!
Wake up! Bottled water is wasteful. Period.Posted on August 16, 2007 1:24 PM • 20 Comments •
Interior Department to Correct for Past Political Interference
Repent! Repent!Posted on July 21, 2007 8:39 AM • 1 Comments •
More Misleading Arguments from Global Warming Denialists
A survey of non-scientists is cited as evidence that scientists dispute the global warming consensus.Posted on June 4, 2007 7:40 PM • 28 Comments •
A Credulous Media Response to Bush's Climate Change Plan
Despite the press frenzy, the new plan is not a major departure from administration policy, it continues to flout the tried and true international process led by the UN, and it does not contain mandatory emissions caps.Posted on June 3, 2007 7:31 PM • 5 Comments •
A New Weapon in the Fight Against Global Warming: Art
Some of the more insidious factors enabling the constant and dangerous advance of global warming are a lack of public awareness or acceptance and the feeling that it's not a problem relevant to my everyday life. One potentially effective way...Posted on January 17, 2007 7:39 AM • 3 Comments •
Oversight of Bush Administration High on Democrats' Agenda
The Democrats are already making big plans to investigate some of the Bush Administration's more outrageous instances of political interference in science.Posted on November 20, 2006 5:47 PM • 0 Comments •
The Next Target for Global Warming Denialists: Children's Books
Senator Inhofe is up to his global warming denialist shenanigans again, and this time the target is a children's book.Posted on October 3, 2006 7:31 PM • 0 Comments •
The Power of Coal Is as Evident as Ever in Jeff Goodell's Big Coal
In Big Coal, Jeff Goodell offers an insightful and chilling exposé of the coal industry that leaves the reader shocked by our continued reliance on coal but at a loss for what to do about it.Posted on September 14, 2006 7:45 AM • 3 Comments •
Global Warming, Creationism, and Religious Nutcases
They're all sort of related, so here goes....Posted on August 15, 2006 5:10 PM • 7 Comments •
Fantastical Fridays: Yes, This Is Horrible, This Idea
This week's installment of Fantastical Fridays discusses a not-so-impressive finding reported in the media in January 2006. From the archives: (30 January 2006) To all of those who worried about the United States' dependence on Middle Eastern oil, who tried...Posted on August 11, 2006 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
Setting the Record Straight on Global Warming
An April 2006 paper in Nature narrowed down the range of possible scenarios for how global warming may play out as carbon dioxide levels continue to rise. Although much of the press coverage treated it as a blow to global warming science, it was in reality quite the opposite.Posted on August 10, 2006 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
A Hot Topic
Global warming is certainly a "hot topic", and this post decribes some global warming research findings from January 2006: one that revises estimates of the expected increase in sea level due to global warming and another that demonstrates how certain important marine ecosystems could be vulnerable to changes in ocean currents due to global warming.Posted on August 9, 2006 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
Amphibian Disease Heats Up
What do global warming and epidemic diseases have in common? Apparently they have a lot, at least when it comes to amphibians.Posted on August 8, 2006 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
An Inconvenient AP Story for Republicans
Yesterday, the AP released a story describing the general approval within the scientific community of the science behind Al Gore's new documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Not to be outdone, global warming denialist James Inhofe (R - OK) released his own press release via the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and it's about as crazy as anything else he's had his hands on.Posted on June 28, 2006 6:42 PM • 15 Comments •
National Academies Release Climate Change Report
The National Academies today released their report on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years. The verdict? "High confidence that planet is warmest in 400 years; less confidence in temperature reconstructions prior to 1600." The reviews from around the...Posted on June 22, 2006 8:06 PM • 2 Comments •
