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Science, policy, and politics. Focus on science communication and climate change. The Dake Page offers news, analysis and book reviews.

Thursday, January 26, 2017

EPA Dealing with Censorship, Hostile Takeover by New Administration

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) woke up this week to a barrage of restrictions that a former Administrator under George H.W. ...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Answers to Questions - 2016 Warmest Year on Record

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NASA and NOAA issued a joint press release on January 18, 2017 confirming what climate watchers had expected - 2016 was the warmest year o...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know by Joseph Romm

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A tremendously valuable book that everyone interested in climate change should read. And we all should be interested in climate change. ...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

New Study Confirms Climate is Warming, Pause Never Happened

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"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal." This was the conclusion of the most recent IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5). Als...
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Thursday, December 29, 2016

How to Assess Climate Change Through Critical Thinking

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To quote Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum in their book, Unscientific America , “[t]he problem with the internet is obvious to anyone ...
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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Record Sea Ice Losses at BOTH Poles: This is What it Means

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We've just hit the winter solstice - the first day of winter. And that means sea ice extent in the Arctic is going through its annual pe...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

The Madhouse Effect by Michael Mann and Tom Toles

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This is a book every American should read, and read now. The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening Our Planet, Destro...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Who is Scott Pruitt?

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Scott Pruitt is apparently the new administration's choice to become Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the EP...
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Thursday, December 1, 2016

The Incoming Administration is Even Worse Than Expected for Climate Science

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Prior to the recent U.S. election this page noted " the last gasp of climate denial groups ." It seems denial lobbyists are now ...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

The Effect of the U.S. Election Result on Climate Change

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A disaster for the planet? Or will we keep building on the progress? No one knows for sure. There is no doubt that the surprise election...
Thursday, November 3, 2016

The Basics of Climate Change Science - The Series

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This page started a series of posts on the basics of climate change science and why we know that human activity is causing the climate to ...
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Thursday, October 27, 2016

The Disappearing Spoon by Sean Kean

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The full title of this book is The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Period...
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Thursday, October 20, 2016

The Last Gasp of Climate Denial Groups

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The headline in the Guardian says it all: " No longer taken seriously, we're seeing the last gasp of climate denial groups ....
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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - The Smoking Gun of Climate Change

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Carbon dioxide - the smoking gun of global warming ! There, I said it. So far in this series we've established that the greenhouse effe...
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