Nuclear Power Makes Individualists See Green
From Making Sense of—and Progress in—the American Culture War of Fact Individuals’ expectations about the policy solution to global warming strongly influences their willingness to credit information...
View ArticleGermany keeps adding coal power
Third world countries are adding coal power, the US is adding coal power, and Germany is adding coal power. Note about article: it appears that the greenhouse gas emissions cited only refer to the...
View ArticleSelling coal as nuclear-free energy
Nuon is also wooing customers away from German providers by offering “nuclear-free electricity” at attractive rates-electricity that will be produced in coal-burning power plants in the future. From...
View ArticleDeclining Arctic ice
Most of you have seen this: September Arctic sea ice is in decline, go here to see the animated version of how it changes from year to year. The animation goes from 1979 to 2007, here are the end...
View ArticleArctic warming early in 20th century
The Arctic showed an abrupt increase in temperature around 1920, a cooling, and then a steadier climb beginning in the 1960s. Increased greenhouse gases are pretty well correlated with the second...
View ArticleWater Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States
The National Research Council’s new report discussed the impact of biofuels of today and tomorrow on water supply and pollution. From the Executive Summary (pictures and graphs from elsewhere):...
View ArticlePeer review
What does peer review mean to you? To some, it means research that is probably funded by industry or government. Many of these people believe the funder influences the quality of the work. While this...
View ArticleFriends, our Integrity Testimony, and climate change
Friends (Quakers) are all over the place on solutions to climate change, and what role we should play in the solution. Some of us even disagree that climate change is important for all Friends to...
View ArticleGwyneth Cravens talk on the web
You can link to it from Cravens’ site for her new book coming out tomorrow, Power to Save the World. Rip Anderson shares the stage with her. Cravens met Anderson at a party, and they argued over...
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