Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics [via The Los Angeles Times] Some 700 members of the American Geophysical Union have agreed to form a rapid-response team to speak out about the realities of climate change, a topic with virtually universal support in scientific circles but with a growing number of skeptics in and out [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’
Morning Briefing: 8 November 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged American Geophysical Union, Climate Change, Facebook, Global Warming, Pompeii, Queen Elizabeth II on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Half of Americans Fail Climate Change Quiz
Posted in Science, tagged Climate Change, Global Warming, Yale on October 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A new study from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication gives more than half of Americans a failing grade on the specifics of climate change. When questioned about the greenhouse effect, the difference between weather and climate, fossil fuels, carbon dioxide, skeptic arguments and solutions, fully 52 percent of respondents received a failing grade. [...]
George F. Will Blinds Himself with Science
Posted in Politics, Science, tagged Climate Change, George F. Will, Robert Laughlin on September 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
America’s energy policy is often dictated by short-term requirements: increasing need, lags in the development of alternative energy sources, the discovery and exploitation of new sources of fossil fuels. Environmentalists have typically cautioned in the past that such short-term thinking is progressively more detrimental to the global ecosystem and responsible energy policy will account for [...]
Judge to Cuccinelli: Where’s the Beef?
Posted in Law, Politics, tagged Academia, Climate Change, Ken Cuccinelli, University of Virginia on September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ken Cuccinelli certainly is busy these days. The Virginia attorney general took office just seven months ago and has already distinguished himself as a real go-getter. So far he has: Challenged the federal health care bill in court as an unconstitutional violation of the interstate commerce clause Advised the state’s universities that they cannot legally [...]
