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From Media Matters The IPCC released the third of its series of reports on man-made climate change last week, and the organization Medi...

With the release this past week of the Mitigation volume, all three technical reports of the most recent IPCC climate change review, i.e.,...

Graphic courtesy of NASA As mentioned previously, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) rolled out the second volume of ...

Graphic courtesy of NASA The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) officially rolled out the second volume of its Fifth Asses...

I periodically review books that address the issue of communicating science to the public. Today's book is Am I Making Myself Clear? ...

Graphic courtesy of NASA One of the more emphatic debates these days is whether scientists should talk more with the public. Traditional...

Yesterday, March 12, 2014, the House Environment and the Economy Subcommittee held a hearing on its version of a TSCA reform bill. As note...

On February 27, 2014 the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce issued a "discussion draft" of what it calls the Chemicals in...

I periodically review books that address the issue of communicating science to the public. As suggested by its title – Unscientific Americ...

A new report was issued on February 26, 2014 by two of the world's foremost scientific organizations: The US National Academy of Scien...

Recently, much of the United States was hit with excessively cold weather. Immediately the chorus of "skeptics" fluttered onto to ...

I ran across the following video recently and felt that it does a very good job of identifying some of the problems scientists experience ...

Chemicals are all around us. Mostly they make our lives easier. Without them our lives would be, in many minds, primitive. But sometimes c...

Recently I was reading a lively piece by Tom Nichols in a blog called The Federalist. Nichols was lamenting " The Death of Expertise ...