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We have to stop filling and killing the oceans with plastic
We have to stop filling and killing the oceans with plastic Eight million tonnes. That’s how much plastic we’re tossing into the oceans every year! University of Georgia environmental engineer Jenna Jambeck says it’s enough to line up five grocery bags of trash on every foot of coastline in the world. A study published by Jambeck and […]
Harvard-Smithsonian Profited as Much as Willie Soon with Fossil Fuel Funding
Harvard-Smithsonian Profited as Much as Willie Soon with Fossil Fuel Funding Both Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute are trying to shake off the controversy surrounding Willie Soon, but these esteemed organizations should not be let off the hook easily. Earlier this week, documents revealed by the Guardian and New York Times provide irefutable evidence that climate denier Willie […]
Republicans To Investigate NASA Over Climate Data Tampering
Republicans To Investigate NASA Over Climate Data Tampering With record heat (and drought) in the west and record cold (wet and snow) in the east, the global warming game-playing continues every day but the climate-gate rhetoric has increased vociferously since we first noted three weeks ago, the data that has been so relied upon to ‘prove’ global […]
Junk Science? Report Finds Shale Industry Cited ‘Retracted and Discredited’ Studies
Junk Science? Report Finds Shale Industry Cited ‘Retracted and Discredited’ Studies Since the beginning of the shale gas rush, the drilling industry has insisted that the process is relatively benign, arguing that its critics are simply fear-mongering and that a sober scientific review of the data fails to prove, for instance, that fracking has ever […]
Bjørn Lomborg Sings WSJ’s Same Old Climate Change Song: Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Bjørn Lomborg Sings WSJ’s Same Old Climate Change Song: Don’t Worry, Be Happy Bjorn Lomborg’s latest op-ed in the Wall Street Journal resurrects repeatedly demolished distortions of fact to downplay the real and increasingly documented threats of climate change. His trademark tactic is to acknowledge that climate change is real and human-caused, only to then dismiss the […]
MedievalDeception 2015: Inhofe Drags Senate Back To Dark Ages
MedievalDeception 2015: Inhofe Drags Senate Back To Dark Ages On January 21, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) again displayed the same deception/incompetence that pervaded his book, The Greatest Hoax (2012). In this video segment (3:00-5:20), he presented a poster on the Senate floor that matches the image below from“Kyoto by Degrees,” an anonymous Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Opinion piece, June 21, 2005. Both contained […]
The central contradiction in the modern outlook: ‘Planet of the Apes’ vs ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
The central contradiction in the modern outlook: ‘Planet of the Apes’ vs ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ When talking about the perils of climate change or resource depletion, soil degradation or fisheries collapse, water pollution or nuclear waste–how annoying it is to have one listener respond dismissively, “They’ll figure something out. They always have.” It’s a […]
BBC – Earth – Earth’s magnetic field now flips more often than ever
BBC – Earth – Earth’s magnetic field now flips more often than ever. The Earth’s magnetic field, which protects us from potentially dangerous solar radiation, is gradually losing its stability. No need to move underground or build space colonies just yet, though: the changes are taking place over millions of years. You might assume that […]
Peak Oil: Statements Aren’t Always Conclusive – Peak Oil Matters
Peak Oil: Statements Aren’t Always Conclusive – Peak Oil Matters. Michael Lynch offered that comment early in a not surprisingly vague article arguing peak oil this past summer. [Not that vague is a new tactic for him. Five years ago, Chris Nelder offered a concise analysis of Lynch’s work, and not much appears to have changed]: With a background in political […]
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Sharp Edge of the Shell
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Sharp Edge of the Shell. One of the interesting features of blogging about the twilight of science and technology these days is that there’s rarely any need to wait long for a cogent example. One that came my way not long ago via a reader of this blog—tip […]
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Fragmentation of Technology
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Fragmentation of Technology. It was probably inevitable that last week’s discussion of the way that contemporary science is offering itself up as a sacrifice on the altar of corporate greed and institutional arrogance would field me a flurry of responses that insisted that I must hate science. This is […]
Bill Passed: EPA Must Take Advice from Industry Shills, NOT from Independent Scientists |
Bill Passed: EPA Must Take Advice from Industry Shills, NOT from Independent Scientists |. The Environmental Protection Agency is a federal agency that is charged with the responsibility of writing and enforcing legislation to protect human health and the environment. Established under Nixon in 1970, the EPA is another one of those agencies that sounds […]
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Suicide of Science
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Suicide of Science. Last week’s discussion of facts and values was not as much of a diversion from the main theme of the current sequence of posts here on The Archdruid Report as it may have seemed. Every human society likes to think that its core cultural and intellectual projects, whatever […]
Oil and Gas Industry’s “Endless War” on Fracking Critics Revealed by Rick Berman | DeSmogBlog
Oil and Gas Industry’s “Endless War” on Fracking Critics Revealed by Rick Berman | DeSmogBlog. Leave it to Washington’s top attack-dog lobbyist Richard Berman to verify what many always suspected: that the oil and gas industry uses dirty tricks to undermine science, vilify its critics and discredit journalists who cast doubt on the prudence of […]
How Industry First Went to War With Climate Science | DeSmog UK
How Industry First Went to War With Climate Science | DeSmog UK. Scientists had well understood for many decades that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere could raise global temperatures and cause climate change. But when politicians finally took notice, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was formed, industry began a war with science itself. […]
