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Current Events from a Science Perspective.

Energy and the Environment

  • George Will: The Earth Doesn't Care What We Do to It

    George Will likes the fact that the Earth doesn’t care what we do about the Environment. But he overlooks a few small inconvenient things – such as man’s possible extinction. Read more

  • Have Republicans Abandoned Conservative Values?

    Conservation has always been a core Republican value but recently the Republican leadership has abandoned the idea. Read more

  • The Republican Flip/Flop on Cap-and-Trade

    Republicans who once endorsed cap-and-trade have flip flopped on their support, putting the economy and the environment at risk. Republican leaders flopped by trying to mislead voters on the cost and need to flip back to cooperating on the cap-and-trade bill. Read more

  • Bits and Pieces 1: Do Scientists Keep Secrets?

    Complaints about  “scientific secrecy” are disingenuous: There is very little secrecy in science. Scientific papers are presented and openly debated at meetings where anyone can attend. The peer reviewed papers include the data, the results, and the reasoning and are available at public libraries and many are now online. Also: Researchers are required to keep… Read more

  • Bits and Pieces

    This article contains short comments on issues related to climate science such as peer review, ocean acidification … Read more

  • Peer Review, Science Data, and the Public's Right to Know

    The public has the right to information about publicly funded research through the FOIA. Some details of the peer review process are held as confidential to protect the integrity of the process. Read more

  • Lord Monckton: A British Sophist in the U.S. Congress

    Sophists: Originally, a sophist was someone wise or clever. With the rise of Democracy in Athens, sophists found it profitable to serve aspiring politicians. For a fee, they would argue on behalf of their patron or provide constructed arguments, or talking points, if the politician wished to appear learned. Expert Sophists claimed that, by skilled… Read more

  • The Gulf Oil Disaster: Where Were the Engineers?

    The Challenger Disaster was caused by an engineering ethics failure. Where were the engineers when the key decisions were made that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster? Read more

  • Robert Bryce's "Myths about Green Energy"

    What Mr. Bryce claims as myths are mostly true. Our energy needs will best be served by a mixture of traditional and alternate energy sources and we should not let Mr. Bryce’s opinions keep us from developing the alternate sources. Read more

  • A New Tactic in the Climate Change Debate

    The new tactic in the global warming debate is just a call to inaction. It advises we should just ignore the problem and adapt to the changes. However, that approach ignores the environmental catastrophes that might be caused by that approach. Read more