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Climate Change and Comets

This is the opening to a terrific story by Rex Dalton in Miller-McCune: It seemed like such an elegant answer to an age-old mystery: the disappearance of what are arguably North America’s first people. A speeding comet nearly 13,000 years ago was the culprit, the theory goes, spraying ice and rocks across the continent, killing…Continue Reading…

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Wegman Paper Retracted, Watts Growls

Order Zopiclone Online Anthony Watts bites down hard on sour grapes after reading the big news yesterday in USA Today. More on that in a minute. So Dan Vergano breaks the story and offers this helpful background: The study, which appeared in 2008 in the journal Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, was headed by statistician Edward Wegman of George Mason University…Continue Reading…

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Why Biotechnology Will Save Our Ass

https://theroyalstagproperties.com/contact/ If climate projections prove even partly correct in the coming decades, many areas of the planet will experience longer and nastier drought conditions. Let’s be clear: that won’t be anybody’s idea of fun in the sun. But as SciAm’s David Biello reports, for the last several years agribusiness giants like Monsanto, Pioneer and Syngenta have…Continue Reading…

Tuning Out the Latest NAS Report is Misguided

Pregabalin 300Mg Buy Online Some regular readers might be surprised to learn that I think this latest National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report, called “America’s Climate Choices,” should inspire more than a collective yawn from the media. But as Charlie Petit explains, there are institutional reasons for this: The news business is about what’s new. If a prestigious body…Continue Reading…

A Straight Talk Revival?

https://www.andrewplimmer.com/7-day-shift/ This Washington Post op-ed by Senator John McCain, rebutting his fellow Republicans on the use of torture, is notable. Might it herald the return of the old McCain from the early 2000s? If so, he might also find his voice on the climate issue.

Showdown Over Fuel Efficiency

It’s coming. As Peter Whoriskey writes in the Washington Post: Over the next few months, regulators are scheduled to set the next round of U.S. fuel economy standards for [automotive] manufacturers. Among the proposals under consideration is one that would lift average fuel economy under the law to as much as 62 mpg by 2025. He…Continue Reading…

Watts All Wet Over Dirty Words

https://ramedicare.com/modified-power-yoga-routine/ The curmudgeons and scolds are braying at WUWT over this Australian rap video. How crude! How offensive! How naughty! How…unsurprising. Once upon a time, lots of people got all riled up over this guy and his swiveling hips. Imagine. These were bad boys, too (and one of my favorite all time bands). Anyway, for Anthony or…Continue Reading…

Rapping for the Climate

https://disneycruisinggroup.com/concierge/ Nothing spreads awareness of an issue more than when it breaks through into Pop Culture. Here’s a new one from Australia’s New Zealand’s Hungry Beast. And in a similar musical vein (H/T: Bryan Walsh), here’s another, a neat collaboration between an NYU  journalism class and an investigative journalism site.

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Republicans

Ambien Buy Online There is this assumption in environmental and climate circles that the Republican party represents (in the United States) the biggest obstacle to political progress on climate change. Recent developments certainly support this view. Since 2009, the GOP has become increasingly hostile to climate science. Republican presidential hopefuls are marching to this same Tea Party beat (even those…Continue Reading…

Shale Bait

I got something for everyone. New research confirms that natural gas drilling is polluting drinking water. Taking note of this and the previous commotion over the Cornell study, Ronald Baily at Reason harrumphs: Environmentalists Were for Fracking Before They Were Against it Whatever, says Matt Ridley. Shale is bountiful and cheap! Finally, Zeke Hausfather does a…Continue Reading…