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Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by Science Policy Analyst Terence Houston. Read the full Policy News here. NSF: FORMER DIRECTORS EXPRESS CONCERN WITH DRAFT PEER REVIEW BILL On May 8, six former officials who headed the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Science Board during the Clinton and George W. [...]
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Contrary to political posturing, there are more than two positions on the climate change issue. There are political conservatives who accept anthropogenic climate change, but prefer using market forces to address the problem. These individuals rate a 4 on my … Continue reading →
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If you believe the climate is changing and that human activties are the cause, then you can probably go back over to clearning your house of whatever you were doing when you took a break to check in with SeaMonster. But, if you are one of the hundred million of so Americans that still don't [...]
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"So why are we behaving like this?" asks Martin Wolfe of the Financial Times."A second reason is opposition to any interventions in the free market. Some of this, no doubt, is driven by narrowly economic interests. But do not underestimate the power of ideas. To admit that a free economy generates a vast global external cost is to admit that the large-scale government regulation so often proposed by hated environmentalists is justified. For many libertarians or classical
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Fossilized leaves can tell us a lot about out climate history Frank Kovalchek via Wikimedia By studying the way leaves shrink when they fossilize, a team of more than 100 high school students could build more accurate models of climate change. A team of high school students have co-authored a scientific journal paper with their University of Arizona grad student instructor that could have a serious impact on the reliability of climate models. Their work details the impact of shrinkage on dried,
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A flurry of discussion about public misperception of climate scientists' views misses another science perception gap.
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Apparently that is a thing: NEW YORK and COLORADO SPRINGS, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Over half of sustainable, responsible, impact (SRI) investment industry professionals say that retail investors (65 percent) and institutional investors (53 percent) are currently expressing interest in fossil fuel-free portfolios in the face of growing signs of climate change, according to…
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By The Editors
Fracking fracas: The Obama administration proposed new rules for fracking on federal land yesterday that aimed to please both environmentalists and energy producers. Good luck with that. Green-friendly Massachusetts Congressman Edward Markey says the regulations would give drillers permission to “frack first and ask questions later,” while Big Oil buddy and North Dakota senator John Hoeven argues that the rules would “exacerbate
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This article could use a little more reflection about working alongside potentially dangerous animals and a little less sensationalism. But, it's still an incredible story: I was swallowed by a hippo.
Who knew? Snakes like hot springs too.
The Roundup from a couple weeks ago featured amazing pictures of a pod of Orcas attacking a group of Sperm Whales. This week's unlucky victim is a dolphin.
Wenger SJ, Isaak DJ, Luce CH, Neville HM, Fausch KD, Dunham JB, Dauwalter DC, Young MK, Elsner MM, Rieman BE & Hamlet AF (2011). Flow regime, temperature, and biotic interactions drive differential declines of trout species under climate change., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (34) 14175-80. PMID: 21844354
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On our radar today: 1) People need to learn to farm to live on Mars; 2) A Japanese reactor lies on an active fault line; 3) Shocks to the brain may improve your math skills, and…
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By Neal Lineback and Mandy Lineback Gritzner, Geography in the NewsTM and Maps.com KEYSTONE PIPELINE AND CANADIAN TAR SANDS CONTROVERSY Supporters and protesters continue to lobby both the White House and U.S. Congress for and against the 1,700-mile long (2,736-km) Keystone pipeline running from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The Keystone XL, as…
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John Cook from the University of Queensland and his colleagues have now put to rest the idea that there’s no consensus on global warming. Global warming is real, and it’s caused by humans. So say over 97% of peer-reviewed climate studies.The researchers pored through nearly 12,000 published papers on climate science and separated them into ones that explicitly endorse anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming, those that explicitly reject that premise, and those that offer no position on
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Guest Post from Bob Ryan Meteorologist for WJLA TV in Washington DC (This post appeared on the WJLA Weather Blog) Are cities changing summer thunderstorms? This is a follow-up blog to a story I had on our 11PM news Tuesday May 14. You can see the actual story below but I wanted to expand a few things beyond 1 minute and 30 seconds. Here’s the tease :>). Do you live in …
