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The Truth Fights Back
I blogged a couple of weeks ago about Skeptical Science, and in particular, t...
American Farm Bureau';s Rick Krause Lies To Farmers
Rick Krause The American Farm Bureau is continuing to lie to farmers about th...
Technological regress
If you've been reading for a while, you might want to swallow and put down th...
The Australian's War on Science 47
An anonymous person at The Australian writes:
In serious debates, noth...
More on sun-climate relations
Four new papers discuss the relatiosnhip between solar activity and climate: ...
A first look at UAH 5.3
Readers here (and elsewhere) have noted the release of a new version of the U...
Leakegate: Jonathan Leake gets Sunday Times banned from JAMA
JAMA/ Archives has issued a special notice:
SPECIAL NOTICE: The embarg...
American Petroleum Institute Tells Lawmakers It Supports Carbon Fee Because It';s Easier To Demonize
The effort of Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieb...
“Cyber bullying” and Congressional inquisition aim to chill the work of climate scientists
An article in The Daily Climate (“Cyber bullying rises as climate data are ...
Another week of GW News, March 7, 2010
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to...
What methane tells us about ourselves
The ongoing discussion about the recent Science paper by Shakhova, et al. on ...
What should be reproducible?
I'll make the assumption that astrophysics is science. That shouldn't be te...
New Naomi Oreskes Talk Available
University of California (San Diego) science historian Naomi Oreskes has a ne...
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Pushing Back Against the Methane Tipping Point
Jamais CascioA piece in the latest issue of Science shows that there's a cons...
Concentrate On The Personal Benefit
This MediaPost article highlights one of ecoAmerica's general rules - success...
Transcript of AU Forum "The Climate Change Generation: Youth, Media, & Politics in an Unsustainable World"
American Today, the weekly newspaper for American University, ran this fe...
Internet Freedom: Beyond Circumvention
Ethan Zuckerman Secretary Clinton's recent speech on Internet Freedom has sig...
The Attack on Climate-Change Science: Why It's the O.J. Moment of the Twenty-First Century
Bill McKibben, 350.org, compares the carbon lobby's years long effort to disc...
Connect with Worldchanging, Help Build a Brighter Future
WorldChanging TeamGreetings Worldchangers! By becoming a fan of Worldchanging...
November 1941 and the Turning of the Tide
Alex Steffen It's understandably common for people working on bright green is...
Headlines from Worldchanging Canada
Mark Tovey(February 2010) Top stories from our Canadian blog: On-street rumbl...
Thermopower Waves and Nanopollution
Alex SteffenA group of MIT nanotechnology researchers has discovered a new wa...
Should Prestigious Scientists Fight Back on Climate Change?
At NewYorkTimes.com, Alex Kaplun of Greenwire reports on emails exchanged amo...
USAToday: Scientists Misreading the Polls on Climate Change
Dan Vergano of USA Today has an important column out this weekend. Vergano, ...
If GOP Could Go “Green,” Couldn’t Your Business?
Despite the fact that the youth seems to be less engaged on climate, it is st...
On the Causes of Climate Deadlock
Is the deadlock on climate policy a result of failed communications or failed...
Extent of ‘carbon outsourcing’ revealed
Posted for Richard Van Noorden from The Great Beyond
More than one-fifth o...
Whale Meat on the Menu, in California?
Authorities and activists say they found whale meat at a California sushi bar.
Building Safer, but Cheaply, in Quake Zones
A deadly earthquake in Turkey illustrates the importance of teaching quake-re...
Should Scientists Fight Heat or Stick to Data?
Researchers and communications experts debate how to fight attacks on climate...
The Message From Planet Jim
The man who created Avatar says the on-screen battle is a reflection of the r...
The 'Real' Take on Methane and Warming
Scientists reach out to remind the public that carbon dioxide, despite methan...
The Heat Over Bubbling Arctic Methane
Amid heated headlines over Arctic methane bubbles, scant evidence for scary o...
The Classroom as Science Hot Zone
Teachers and students are asked to weigh in on classroom struggles over clima...
Can Wild Bison Repopulate the Plains?
A new, but challenging, plan emerges to restore wild bison to Western prairies.
Fuel Taxes Must Rise, Harvard Researchers Say
Harvard researchers find that fuel taxes may need to go up in order to meet t...
Being Ready, in Quake Zones or Snow Zones
A little preparation and training can go a long when when disaster strikes, a...
Chilean Quake a Warning to U.S. Northwest
The Chilean disaster holds lessons for the Pacific Northwest, where a similar...
[Planet 3.0: 3092] Journal club/interesting papers
Consumption-based accounting of CO2 emissions http:/ / www.pnas....
[Planet 3.0: 3092] Journal club/interesting papers
Ancient DNA analyses exclude humans as the driving force behinhtt...
[Planet 3.0: 3092] Journal club/interesting papers
Two millennia of North Atlantic seasonality and implications fhtt...
[Planet 3.0: 3092] Journal club/interesting papers
Calibrating the Cryogenianhttp:/ / www.sciencemag.org/ cgi/ conte...
[Planet 3.0: 3092] Journal club/interesting papers
Energy: Behavior and Energy Policyhttp:/ / www.sciencemag.org/ c...
A Down-Under Journalistic ';Wipeout';In Covering Risks to the Great Barrier Reef
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA " Growing tensions between scientists and major news ou...
China';s Climate ';Free Media'; In the International Spotlight
Along with the U.S. ... China makes up the climate change ';G2′ It's a v...
HFCs: Case Study in InterconnectionsOf Ozone Depletion and Climate Change
Climate change associated with atmospheric warming and depletion of the earth...
IJNR';s Energy Country Institute:Supporting ';Values of Good Journalism';
Shiprock, sans the brown haze that often envelopes it. Shiprock rises like...
Anatomy of IPCC';s Mistakeon Himalayan Glaciers and Year 2035
See Editor's Note Introducing this Feature On the heels of the Copenhagen cli...
';Extraordinary Claims'; in KUSI BroadcastOn NOAA, NASA … but ';Extraordinary Evidence';?
A San Diego TV station's mid-January one-hour broadcast reporting that two ke...
BRRRRRR … A Cold January in Many PlacesAnd a New Round of Cooling Redux
It's no surprise that as much of the U.S. hit was with an unusual January col...
Making Sense of Sea Level Rise:Numerous Factors, But Rising Temperatures Key
Will Outer Banks' existing dunes withstand future sea level rise? The conce...
Why the Decline and Rebirthof Environmental Journalism Matters
In Camille Feanny's neighborhood workers busily repair homes and patch or rei...
Andy Revkin, Cory Dean Seen ContributingIn Some Ways to Ongoing Times Coverage
Less than a year after launching its newly reorganized reporting team designe...
Scientists Develop New Plastics That Can Be Recycled Continuously
Researchers at IBM and Stanford University say they have found a way to produ...
Earthquake Shifted Cities As Far As Ten Feet, Researchers Say
The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Chile last month moved the city of C...
Record Wind Generation Tests Texas's Transmission System
Wind power generation in Texas is growing so quickly that it is testing the l...
New Combustion System Greatly Boosts Gas Mileage, Company Says
A California-based startup company claims it has developed an improved versio...
World’s Pall of Black Carbon Can Be Eased With New Stoves
Two billion people worldwide do their cooking on open fires, producing sooty ...
New Methane Releases Discovered in Siberian Arctic, Study Says
Methane, a gas with at least 25 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxi...
New Online System Maps Risks to Forests in U.S. South
The World Resources Institute has launched a website that maps forests in the...
‘Buy America’ Provision Sought For Clean Energy Projects in Stimulus Plan
Four Democratic U.S. senators have asked the Obama administration to stop inv...
After Two Decades of Delay, A Chance to Save Bluefin Tuna
The obscenely profitable market for bluefin tuna in...
British Loan Program to Promote Energy Retrofitting of Homes
The British government will introduce legislation that would tie new, subsidi...
Younger Americans Disengaged On Global Warming, Survey Finds
Although they have grown up during an era when global warming has emerged as ...
Interview: A Software Entrepreneur Makes a Bold Foray Into Green Energy
Bill Gross made his fortune in the Silicon Valley, creating his Idealab busin...
A High-Tech Entrepreneur On the Front Lines of Solar
After making his fortune with Idealab and a host of technology start-ups, Bil...
Rapid Polar Bear Adaptations; Golden Frog Not A Victim of Warming
After sequencing the mitochondrial DNA of an ancient polar bear, scientists h...
Common Weedkiller Causes Feminization of Frogs, Study Says
Male frogs exposed to atrazine, an herbicide commonly found in U.S. waters, c...
Model of Chilean Tsunamis
These images vividly illustrate that the tsunami waves generated by the recen...
China Eyes Development Of Ice-Free Arctic Ocean, Report Says
Even though China does not border the Arctic Ocean, Chinese officials and sci...
Marine Protected Areas Vital To Recovery of Threatened Coral Reefs
Coral reef ecosystems within marine protected areas are more likely to remain...
In India, a Clear Victor on The Climate Action Front
In the internal struggle over the nation’s climate policy, India’s charis...
Wal-Mart Vows Major Cuts in Carbon Emissions by 2015
Wal-Mart officials have vowed to cut the company’s greenhouse gas emissions...
Giant Antarctic Iceberg Could Affect Ocean Circulation Patterns
An iceberg 49 miles long and 24 miles wide has broken off from a massive floa...
Grizzly Bear Sightings Increase in Canadian Polar Bear Habitat
Grizzly bear sightings have increased in a Canadian province long considered ...
ESA Satellite Mission Provides New Understanding of Planet's Water Cycle
The European Space Agency has published the first results from a satellite-ba...
Silicon Valley Company Claims Advance in Fuel Cell Technology
Bloom Energy has unveiled its long-awaited and much-hyped fuel cell technolog...
Can Damage to the IPCC Be Repaired?
The former chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
says th...
Major Change Is Needed If the IPCC Hopes to Survive
Well before the recent controversies, the work of the Intergovernmental Panel...
Waste Could Meet 7 Percent of Spain's Electricity Demand, Study Says
The burning of solid urban waste, sludge from water treatment plants, and liv...
UN and U.S. Officials Mount Defense of Science Behind Global Warming
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Lisa P. Jackson, head of the U.S. Enviro...
Whaling Commission Proposes An End to Commercial Hunting Ban
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has proposed an end to the ban on ...
EPA Will Phase In Controls on CO2 Emissions, Chief Says
Facing growing opposition from members of Congress, the Obama administration ...
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