environment:
The forced resignation of Mary Gade
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Posted on May 3, 2008 8:42 AM • 0 Comments •
Last week's report by the UCS indicates that the EPA has become little more than another political tool for the Bush Administration.
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Posted on April 30, 2008 2:58 PM • 3 Comments •
Researchers discover methane-metabolizing bacteria that thrive in extreme environments and may have implications for global warming.
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Posted on November 22, 2007 6:25 PM • 3 Comments •
It will take two rights to make up for this wrong.
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Posted on October 15, 2007 7:39 AM • 9 Comments •
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 •
For gaging scientific consensus on global warming and taking that message to the public.
Posted on October 12, 2007 6:11 AM • 1 Comments •
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.
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Posted on September 25, 2007 7:39 AM • 0 Comments •
Wake up! Bottled water is wasteful. Period.
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Posted on August 16, 2007 1:24 PM • 20 Comments •
Repent! Repent!
Posted on July 21, 2007 8:39 AM • 1 Comments •
A survey of non-scientists is cited as evidence that scientists dispute the global warming consensus.
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Posted on June 4, 2007 7:40 PM • 28 Comments •
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 •
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 •
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 •
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 •
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.
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Posted on September 14, 2006 7:45 AM • 3 Comments •
They're all sort of related, so here goes....
Posted on August 15, 2006 5:10 PM • 7 Comments •
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 •
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.
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Posted on August 10, 2006 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
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.
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Posted on August 9, 2006 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
What do global warming and epidemic diseases have in common? Apparently they have a lot, at least when it comes to amphibians.
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Posted on August 8, 2006 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
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.
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Posted on June 28, 2006 6:42 PM • 15 Comments •
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 •