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For James Hansen, the Science Demands Activism on Climate
For James Hansen, the Science Demands Activism on Climate Climate scientist James Hansen has crossed the classic divide between research and activism. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he responds to critics and explains why he believes the reality of climate change requires him to speak out. Climate scientist James Hansen has been a prominent […]
Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties
Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties Last month made five years since the nuclear plant at Fukushima, Japan suffered meltdowns. The release of highly toxic radiation from the reactors was enormous, on the level of the Chernobyl disaster a generation earlier. But Fukushima is arguably worse than Chernobyl. There were […]
Beyond Honeybees: Pollinator-Friendly Farming for the Future
Beyond Honeybees: Pollinator-Friendly Farming for the Future Imagine a world without strawberries, apples, chocolate, coffee, squash, or almonds. More than three-quarters of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts we eat rely on pollinators like honeybees. The phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has raised concerns about honeybees over the last decade, and although CCD is no longer the primary worry, honeybee […]
Exclusive: Climate Hustle’s Marc Morano Turns Down $20k Global Warming Bets From Bill Nye The Science Guy
Exclusive: Climate Hustle’s Marc Morano Turns Down $20k Global Warming Bets From Bill Nye The Science Guy One of America’s most outspoken deniers of the link between fossil fuel burning and global warming has refused $20,000 in bets that the planet will keep getting hotter. Offering the two bets to Marc Morano, of the conservative think […]
Bond Cycles and the Role of The Sun in Shaping Climate
Bond Cycles and the Role of The Sun in Shaping Climate Bond cycles are defined by petrological tracers from core samples in the N Atlantic that link to the pattern of drift ice distribution. They provide a record of shifting ocean currents and winds, in particular periodic weakening of the North Atlantic current and strengthening of […]
Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists and the Chernobyl Death Toll
Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists and the Chernobyl Death Toll With few if any exceptions, self-styled pro-nuclear environmentalists peddle misinformation regarding the Chernobyl death toll. Before considering their misinformation, a brief summary of credible positions and scientific studies regarding the Chernobyl cancer death toll (for detail see here). Epidemiological public health studies are of course important but they’re not […]
Too Much Water to Waste?
Too Much Water to Waste? Does California have too much water? Seriously. Because our actions are sending peculiar messages. Even the State Water Board has backed off on conservation targets for some water agencies. It’s true, rains have replenished much of Northern California’s reservoirs and Governor Brown’s mandated 25% water restrictions made a serious dent […]
Corruption, resources, climate and systemic risk
Corruption, resources, climate and systemic risk Corruption is a loaded word. One person’s corruption is another’s sound social policy. Some people believe providing unemployment benefits to laid-off workers corrupts them by making them “lazy.” Many others think such benefits are sound social policy in an economic system that is prone to major cyclical ups and […]
8 ‘potentially hazardous asteroids’ near Earth discovered by NASA
8 ‘potentially hazardous asteroids’ near Earth discovered by NASA This artist’s concept shows the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth. © NASA Eight new asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth were spotted by NASA’s asteroid-hunter among 439 other objects rotating around our planet, according to a report […]
Sea sends early warning of heatwaves
Sea sends early warning of heatwaves Feeling the heat as New York City swelters in extreme summer temperatures. Image: Bill via Flickr Surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean can give the US Midwest and East Coast 50 days’ notice to prepare itself for a dangerous spell of extreme heat. LONDON, 8 April, 2016 – Americans could have as many […]
Apple crop under threat after cold snap follows early spring
Apple crop under threat after cold snap follows early spring Warm weather caused apple trees to start budding earlier than normal, and the fruits are now in danger by the cold snap that followed. (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters) Apple farmers in the East worry the late-season Arctic blast could take a big bite from their budding crops. […]
Changing Everything
Changing Everything Among climate change activists, solutions usually center on a transition to renewable energy. There may be differences over whether this would be best accomplished by a carbon tax, bigger subsidies for wind and solar power, divestment from fossil fuel companies, massive demonstrations, legislative fiat or some other strategy, but the goal is generally […]
Residents Flee, Home Sales Collapse 44% Following Biggest Gas Leak In History
Residents Flee, Home Sales Collapse 44% Following Biggest Gas Leak In History The “Fukushima class disaster” that emerged from Aliso Canyon’s worst ever gas leak has left behind more than just medical and human issues. According to RealtyTrac, in the three months following the discovery of the gas leak in late October 2015, home sales in the Porter Ranch zip code (91326) […]
On Fuel Economy Efforts, U.S. Faces an Elusive Target
On Fuel Economy Efforts, U.S. Faces an Elusive Target One of President Obama’s signature achievements on climate has been strict new standards aimed at improving fuel efficiency to nearly 55 miles per gallon by 2025. But credits and loopholes, coupled with low gas prices, may mean the U.S. will fall well short of this ambitious goal. […]
Shrimps sound ocean acidity alarm
Shrimps sound ocean acidity alarm The snapping shrimp is the noisiest marine creature in coastal ecosystems. Image: Tullio Ross/University of Adelaide The effect of the sea absorbing increased carbon dioxide in the air has damaging consequences for the noisy snapping shrimp and marine life in coastal rock pools. LONDON, 6 April, 2016 – The slow change in water […]
