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What Actual Climate Progress Looks Like

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Why Science Can't Replace Religion

https://drreddyfamilydoctors.com/womans-health/ In her book Doubt: A History, the scholar and poet Jennifer Hecht writes about having awe for the universe without being religious.  She talked about this during a radio interview: It seems that if you have a doctrine, a version of rationalism or a version of atheism that makes it so that you have to be worried about using the…Continue Reading…

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When Opinion Leaders Don't Lead

https://www.munshinegroup.com/home-nonprofit/clients/ In a New York Times op-ed, Charles Fishman writes: We’re in the worst drought in the United States since the 1950s, and we’re wasting it. Though the drought has devastated corn crops and disrupted commerce on the Mississippi River, it also represents an opportunity to tackle long-ignored water problems and to reimagine how we manage,…Continue Reading…

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What to Do About the "Polluted" Climate Discourse?

Order Soma Online Andrew Montford, a Scottish climate skeptic who blogs at the Bishop Hill site, recently tweeted of his trip to London: Had interesting conversations with a couple of enviro jouros today. Both agreed that media refusal to report “reasonable middle” is problem. This prompted UK climate scientist Richard Betts to respond: It is increasingly annoying that some…Continue Reading…

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How to Convey the Complexities of Science?

Order Ultram Online The cantankerous Jerry Coyne, in a recent post, takes issue with popular “science-lite” books that offer superficial analyses of and solutions to social problems or””most disturbing to me””superficial descriptions of scientific work. This is a recurring bugaboo for scientists. It springs from a deeply rooted attitude that science journalist Deborah Blum aptly described here. So which authors have…Continue Reading…

My Ridiculous Life

I left the house early this morning in a stupor, so I could beat the crowds at Fairway. Of course, I forgot the canvas bags. My wife, instead of castigating me, showed me this. It’s the Brooklyn equivalent of Portlandia. Not all of this is true to our lives (we don’t pick up stuff left on the curb…Continue Reading…

Talk GMOs to Me

HuffPo’s minky in-house science blogger talks GMOs with a plant geneticist. (Hey, you don’t title your show/column”Talk nerdy to me” if you look like Ann Ramsey in Throw Momma from the Train.) The scientist who was interviewed says the science blogger knows her stuff. I agree. I watched it about 12 times. Then I moved on…Continue Reading…

Rumble in the Climate Jungle

Nearly a year ago, I wrote that the “new normal” for climate communication and much reportage and analysis implies a connectivity between global warming and weather-related catastrophes. Well, that was then. Courtesy of James Hansen, we’ve entered new terrain in the climate debate. What that looks like at the moment is the subject of a post by me that just went up at Discover.

A New Chapter in the Climate Debate?

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The Conversion Meme

Purchase Xanax Online In a 2006 NYT op-ed, environment writer Gregg Easterbrook pronounced: based on the data I’m now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert. In 2011, in an essay titled, “Confessions of a Climate Change Convert,” conservative blogger D. R. Tucker said: I was defeated by facts. While others have made similar conversions over the last…Continue Reading…