This is a reblog from the Moyers & Company website. It's an article written by John Light that I've reblogged here as a follow up the May 7th post entitled Extreme Earth: Coming to an Environment Near You. The National Climate Assessment Says We’re in Trouble....
The Earth's climate has changed rapidly over the past fifty years, but when people talk about climate change, they frame it as a future threat. David Popeik, in Scientific American guest blog, says that "climate report nails risk communication." He suggests that the...
On March 5, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead signed the state's budget into law. The bill has a footnote that prohibits the Department of Education from spending any funds to check or revise the state's science standards. The reason this footnote was added to the Wyoming...
On NBC's Feb. 16 edition of Meet the Press a "debate" was broadcast between Bill Nye, the Science Guy, Marsha Blackburn, a Republican Rep. from Tennessee and David Gregory, the media enabler. On the one hand, its unfortunate that Bill Nye agreed to go on the program...
The Superstorm that is slowly moving toward the Middle Atlantic and Northeast states appears to be an anomaly by most weather standards. Or is it? Could this superstorm be related to Global Warming? More specifically, could it be related to the the melting of the...
Yesterday, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) published an open letter on its website with the headline: AAAS Board: Attacks on Climate Researchers Inhibit Free Exchange of Scientific Ideas. In the letter, the Board said: Scientists and...
