On Friday I received a remarkable press release entitled, “Vaccines and Mercury Related to Tobacco, Asbestos, and Lead?” Here’s the first graph: We are in an epidemic of chronic diseases — including Autism — that were rare decades ago, but today affect tens of millions of adults and fully one-half of our children. 1 Moreover,…Continue Reading…
A few years ago, a ranger at Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument told me that this would be a historic trail in fifty years. In the meantime, the tragedy continues: Already this year, 79 of the dead have been recovered. The season of death, deep summer, has not even begun.
This could get ugly. (Hat Tip: John Fleck.)
Liberal bloggers need to get a better grip on why the issue of climate change doesn’t resonate more with the American public. Yesterday, Matt Yglesias lamented that the political moment of possibility for climate legislation has coincided with an enormous recession. Yeah, we know that. The fact is, environmental concerns always wane in an economic…Continue Reading…
You have to read this final report just issued by the Interior Department to appreciate the blatant disregard for the West’s air quality demonstrated by the Bush Administration in its final weeks. First, some background. Late last year, I wrote a piece for High Country News that revealed the blistering critiques EPA’s Rocky Mountain office…Continue Reading…
Are we on the cusp of revolutionizing the scientific method, or merely speeding up the scientific process? Either way, this is a fascinating post by Carl Zimmer on how scientists used a wiki to collaborate in real time on the swine flu virus and then publish their results a little more than a month later…Continue Reading…
Are we finally having a debate on climate adaptation? Sorta. Maybe. Not If politicians, policymakers and climate advocates were really engaging the thorny issue of adaptation, this story by Bruce Stutz, which appeared late last month on Yale Environment 360, would have circled the globe by now. This quote alone from Columbia University’s Wallace Broeker…Continue Reading…
The latest journalist to get sprayed in a typical Romm drive-by pushes back ever so politely. Romm, in his tasteless, arrogant response, shows how smart guys can be so dumb.
Via the Danger Room, we learn that a science division of the Pentagon has been funneling millions of dollars to a research institute at the American Museum of Natural History that studies evolutionary biology and genetic adaptation. In actuality, the money comes courtesy of New York Rep. Charlie Rangel’s earmark requests. Congressional earmarks get a…Continue Reading…
An immediate ban would force me to remember to take my own shopping bag out of the car when I go to the grocery store.