A Climate Denier Will Lead The NASA Transition
Scientists and policy watchers have been sounding the alarm bell that NASA’s climate work could be in jeopardy ever since Donald Trump’s election last month.
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This Is How Climate Deniers Sound To The Rest Of Us
When it comes to talking about climate change, there are at least three different camps of people. There’s the climate deniers, who seek to dispute that there’s an issue at all, there’s the climate agnostics, who take issue with one or more of the premises of man-made climate change, and … [continued]
Scientists Urge RICO Investigation Of Corporate Climate Deniers
Originally published on Red, Green, and Blue. Climate-change denial has been compared to Big Tobacco’s 50-year-campaign to deny the dangers of cigarettes. Both attempted to muddy the waters of the public discussion by claiming there is still “scientific debate” on an issue where the science is known and settled. Both … [continued]
‘Merchants Of Doubt’ — An Easier Sell Than The Truth
We can’t afford to be blase about the new film Merchants of Doubt: “Oh, sure [stifling a yawn], everybody knows the climate change deniers are the same people who spent the 20th century saying smoking isn’t harmful to your health.” Ultra-sarcasm will get us exactly nowhere. Plenty of people have … [continued]
New TV Series ‘Years of Living Dangerously’ On Climate Change & Near Future (VIDEO)
Originally published on Planetsave. The subject of climate change and global warming is a divisive one, because while the science is sound, there seems to be no lack of climate deniers. However, a new TV series that started airing this Sunday aims to get a larger number of people connecting dots on climate change, and could … [continued]
Energy Storage, Efficiency, & Climate News (Energy Efficiency Program Tracker; Nest Awards; Refrigerators…)
More energy storage, energy efficiency, and climate news for your reading pleasure: Energy Storage News Hokkaido To Utilize 60 MWh Vanadium Flow Battery For Grid Storage Outback Power Releases Cost-Effective Energy Storage Solution Energy Efficiency News One Design Award After Another For Nest Save The Environment & More! Lessons In … [continued]
Failed-State US Criticizes China for Clean Energy Subsidies
In an article in the New York Times, US to Investigate China’s Clean Energy Aid, Senator Schumer voiced a complaint that China is engaging in unfair trade practices by supporting clean energy development with government funds. Schumer is right. It is unfair. Don’t they know we are a plutocracy! How … [continued]
Smoker’s Cancer Death NOT Due to Smoking, Say Scientists!!
That’s not a headline you’ll see. No journalist hounded scientists in the cancer research fields to give a yes or no answer to the question: “Did Mr Smith’s death from lung cancer come from his smoking habit?” to which the correct scientific answer is: “No one smoker’s cancer death is … [continued]
Texas Oil Companies Double Spending to Make California Voters Kill Their Climate Bill
This November, Texas oil companies hope to dupe California voters into repealing their own clean energy bill; AB32. The oil companies’ ballot measure had $966,000 in funding up through the end of March. Now they have doubled that, bringing the total to $1.9 million – supposedly to save California jobs. … [continued]
We Might Still Have Food in the Future After All
Whenever plants are subjected to extreme stress, such as very high or low temperatures, they do not flower and grow because they divert their food to their embryo. “Their instinct is to protect the next generation,” said Wigge.
Plants are better adapted to survive, than people are, in that respect. But then they have had a million or so more years to learn that clever trick. They might outlive us.
