Thursday, September 24, 2009

Are biodegradable plastics the answer to the Pacific gyre?

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Not long ago I posted here about a continent of plastic circulating in the Pacific gyre, and how slow degradation of some plastics may actu...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Fake "Experts" Touted by Climate Denialists (A Series): Paul Chesser

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"Paul Chesser is a special correspondent for The Heartland Institute." That in itself should immediately bring into question Mr. C...
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Saturday, September 19, 2009

The Natural Fix?: The Role of Ecosystems in Climate Mitigation

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The title of this post is also the title of a new report from the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). The bottom line = The abi...
Friday, September 18, 2009

Green Businesses Now Generate More Revenue Than the Aerospace and Defense Sectors Combined

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That's right. It pays to be green. According to a story by Fiona Harvey published in the September 18, 2009 Financial Times (the Lond...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Scientist Norman Borlaug, "Father of the Green Revolution," Has Died

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The man known as the "father of the green revolution," agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, has died at the age of 95. Many prob...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Should all sushi be banned to save the bluefin tuna? The EU thinks so!

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Okay, technically the European Union isn't saying that sushi should be banned. But the EU has recommended listing bluefin tuna as an en...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Schwarzenegger's Climate Summit Bags Some White House Staff

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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will reprise the tradition he started last year and host the second annual “ Governors' Globa...
Monday, September 7, 2009

Is the agency charged with ensuring chemical safety running out of money?

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Chemicals are on everyone's mind these days, it seems. In the US there is talk of " reforming TSCA ," the chemical control la...
Sunday, August 30, 2009

Our Floating Plastics Legacy

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At a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society , the worlds largest professional scientific society, a researcher from Japan presented...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

Dissecting a False Climate Denialist Claim (aka, Why Credibility Matters, aka How Science Works)

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The following quote was from a climate denialist on another site: Alarmists actually believe if you can dig up dirt on someone--that falsifi...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

Climate Denialists Grasp for Straws and Come Up Sipping (Warmer) Air

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Not long ago I wrote an article demonstrating that the most cited climate skeptic scientists were all associated with free market lobbying g...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Book Review – Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum

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I’ll start by highly recommending this book. Especially to scientists or those interested in science. As suggested by the title – Unscient...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Independent Climate Skeptics - Well, Maybe not so Independent After All (With Graphics)

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Climate skeptics like to claim that there are many independent scientists who refute the consensus of climate change. They love to cite fol...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

NGO Reaction to the Decision to Suspend ChAMP Chemical Program

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As previously noted , the Obama EPA suddenly suspended its ChAMP program last week. ChAMP was the Agency's mechanism for evaluating the ...