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Category: global warming
As a record-breaking April heat wave hits Washington, DC, one has to wonder: where are all of those climate skeptics who so recently pounced on Snowmageddon as "evidence" against global warming?
Posted on: April 6, 2010 10:09 PM, by Nick Anthis • 20 Comments •
Category: media
"He said, she said" journalism enabled industry-sponsored global warming denialism.
Posted on: April 24, 2009 11:46 AM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
Category: global warming
Industry groups actively worked to discredit global warming science while their own scientific experts warned that global warming science was sound.
Posted on: April 24, 2009 9:42 AM, by Nick Anthis • 18 Comments •
Category: global warming
This time he relies on a recent New York Times article I've already lambasted for being totally anecdotal, lacking any hard facts, alarmist, and generally irresponsible
Posted on: April 2, 2009 10:55 AM, by Nick Anthis • 13 Comments •
Category: movies
I'm starting to feel a little less guilty about my negative review of Sizzle.
Posted on: July 16, 2008 4:55 PM, by Nick Anthis • 14 Comments •
Category: movies
Randy Olson's new film Sizzle is difficult to pin down.
Posted on: July 15, 2008 5:10 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: environment
On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, a case regarding the Navy conducting sonar training exercises in the proximity of marine mammals--some of which are threatened or endangered species. A large body of...
Posted on: June 24, 2008 7:18 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: Barack Obama
We're going to have to be realistic here.
Posted on: June 23, 2008 4:25 PM, by Nick Anthis • 15 Comments •
Category: media
It doesn't live up to its own standard on this one.
Posted on: June 5, 2008 6:25 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: political interference
The forced resignation of Mary Gade
Posted on: May 3, 2008 8:42 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: political interference
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, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Category: biology
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, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Category: endangered species
It will take two rights to make up for this wrong.
Posted on: October 15, 2007 7:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 9 Comments •
Category: blogosphere
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, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: Nobel Prize
For gaging scientific consensus on global warming and taking that message to the public.
Posted on: October 12, 2007 6:11 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: book reviews
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, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: environment
Wake up! Bottled water is wasteful. Period.
Posted on: August 16, 2007 1:24 PM, by Nick Anthis • 21 Comments •
Category: political interference
Repent! Repent!
Posted on: July 21, 2007 8:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: global warming
A survey of non-scientists is cited as evidence that scientists dispute the global warming consensus.
Posted on: June 4, 2007 7:40 PM, by Nick Anthis • 28 Comments •
Category: global warming
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, by Nick Anthis • 5 Comments •
Category: global warming
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, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Category: Democratic Party
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, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: global warming
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, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: book reviews
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, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Category: global warming
They're all sort of related, so here goes....
Posted on: August 15, 2006 5:10 PM, by Nick Anthis • 8 Comments •
Category: Fantastical Fridays
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, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: 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, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: global warming
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, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: global warming
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, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: global warming
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, by Nick Anthis • 15 Comments •
Category: global warming
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, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
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