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You’re Fired! Trump Administration Shows Experts the Door - EcoWatch
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It is absolutely time to panic about climate change
Author David Wallace-Wells on the dystopian hellscape that awaits us. That was was the first line of David Wallace-Wells’s horrifying 2017 essay in New York magazine about climate change.
When Will The Planet Be Too Hot For Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine.
To read an annotated version of this article, complete with interviews with scientists and links to further reading, click here. Peering beyond scientific reticence.
A Major Coal Company Went Bust. Its Bankruptcy Filing Shows That It Was Funding Climate Change Denialism.
The bankruptcy of one of the largest domestic coal producers in the country has revealed that the company maintains financial ties to many of the leading groups that have sowed doubt over the human causes of global warming.
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Climate Change
After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat.
We Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says
The level of carbon now in the atmosphere hasn't been seen in 12 million years, a Harvard scientist said in Chicago Thursday, and this pollution is rapidly pushing the climate back to its state in the Eocene Epoch, more than 33 million years ago, when there was no ice on either pole.
These are the 130 current members of Congress who have doubted or denied climate change
Over 97% of scientists agree that human activity is to blame for the steady warming, and without regulation to curb emissions, the Earth could face disastrous conditions.
Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it?
Climate change activism is increasingly the domain of the young, such as 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, the unlikely face of the school strike for climate movement, which has seen many thousands of children walk out of school to demand that their parents’ generation takes responsibility for leaving t
'Everything Is at Stake': Global Extinction Rebellion Kicks Off Week of Civil Disobedience to Demand Climate Action
The Extinction Rebellion movement kicked off a week of marches, demonstrations, and peaceful civil disobedience across the U.S. and around the world on Monday to demand "systemic changes to stop global warming while there's still time left."
How humans derailed the Earth's climate in just 160 years
For 11,500 years, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations hovered around 280 ppm (the preindustrial “normal”), with an average surface temperature around 15°C. Since the Industrial Revolution, this level has been rising continuously, reaching 410 ppm in 2018.
Sen. Mike Lee says we can solve climate change with more babies. Science says otherwise.
At least one GOP senator believes that to fight climate change, all you need is love. During floor debate ahead of a vote on the Green New Deal, Sen.
Oil And Gas Giants Spend Millions Lobbying To Block Climate Change Policies [Infographic]
Every year, the world's five largest publicly owned oil and gas companies spend approximately $200 million on lobbying designed to control, delay or block binding climate-motivated policy.
The End of Our World Order Is Imminent
Once upon a time in America, we could all argue about whether or not US global power was declining. Now, most observers have little doubt that the end is just a matter of timing and circumstance.
Scientists Are 99.9999 Percent Sure Humans Caused Climate Change
New analysis of 40 years’ worth of satellite data shows that it’s a near-certainty that humanity is actively causing global climate change.
Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard': scientists
OSLO (Reuters) - Evidence for man-made global warming has reached a “gold standard” level of certainty, adding pressure for cuts in greenhouse gases to limit rising temperatures, scientists said on Monday.
Scientists slam report of White House climate change review panel
US President Donald Trump speaks during a rallyin Charleston, West Virginia on August 21, 2018. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Scientist who resisted censorship of climate report lost her job
This story was originally published by Reveal and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For several years, climate change scientist Maria Caffrey led a trailblazing study outlining the risks of rising seas at national parks. After Friday, she’ll be out of a job.
Article from 1912 warns the world about climate change
In the March 1912 edition of Popular Mechanics, an article on the balmy year of 1911 and the ability of humans to change the climate includes a single line that has shocked some modern readers. The caption for a photograph of a coal plant explains that:
How lobbyists buy climate change legislation
What is the relationship between lobbying and the way our government views climate change? A comprehensive new study says it’s like anything else that lobbyists spent egregious amounts of money on - the truth gets buried somewhere deep under the money.
No Secrets: Musk Releases All Tesla Patents to Help Fight Climate Change, Save the Earth
Elon Musk announced Thursday he had released all of the electric carmaker Tesla's patents, as part of an effort to fight climate change.
What Are Some Of The Biggest Climate Change Myths People Still Believe?
What are the biggest myths about climate change that people still believe? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by , Ph.D.
Climate Change, Not Border Security, Is the Real National Emergency
The shutdown might be over for now, but President Donald Trump’s threat to declare a national emergency still looms.
Corporate America Is Getting Ready to Monetize Climate Change
Bank of America Corp. worries flooded homeowners will default on their mortgages. The Walt Disney Co. is concerned its theme parks will get too hot for vacationers, while AT&T Inc. fears hurricanes and wildfires may knock out its cell towers. The Coca-Cola Co.
This book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising.
This conversation was originally published in 2017 and has been lightly updated. By now, the looming dangers of climate change are clear to anyone who’s been paying attention, covered extensively in both academic literature and the popular press.
78 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump
Since his first days in office, President Trump has made eliminating federal regulations a priority.
Five myths about climate change
What’s happening isn’t natural — and almost all scientists agree.
The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal
Like so many others, I’ve been energized by the bold moral leadership coming from newly elected members of Congress like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley in the face of the spiraling climate crisis and the outrageous attacks on unarmed migrants at the borde
U.S. impacts of climate change are intensifying, federal report says
A massive report issued by the Trump administration on Friday emphasizes the dire threat that human-caused global warming poses to the United States and its citizens.
Climate change will be devastating for US, hurting health and costing billi
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America is warming fast. See how your city’s weather will be different in just one generation.
Weather 2050 America is warming fast. See how your city’s weather will be different in just one generation. By , Eliza Barclay, and Kavya Sukumar July 19, 2019 1:19 pm Our world is getting warmer. This we know.
E.P.A. to Disband a Key Scientific Review Panel on Air Pollution
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UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That.
Just two years ago, amid global fanfare, the Paris climate accords were signed — initiating what seemed, for a brief moment, like the beginning of a planet-saving movement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-climate-report-2040.html
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The Climate Change Report Should Make You Worry
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Shell and Exxon's secret 1980s climate change warnings
One day in 1961, an American economist named Daniel Ellsberg stumbled across a piece of paper with apocalyptic implications.
GCAS 2018 Contest: Visualizing the Effects of Climate Change
Are you under 30, passionate about climate change, and eager to try your skills at developing a powerful data visualization using satellite imagery? If so, this challenge is for you!
Big oil asks government to protect its Texas facilities from climate change
PORT ARTHUR, Texas -- As the nation plans new defenses against the more powerful storms and higher tides expected from climate change, one project stands out: an ambitious proposal to build a nearly 60-mile "spine" of concrete seawalls, earthen barriers, floating gates and steel levees on the Texas
Roy Scranton Calls for Acceptance of a Future Defined by Climate Change
Iraq War veteran and climate change philosopher Roy Scranton doesn't mince words. His new collection of essays on war and climate change, out this week from Soho Press, is titled We're Doomed.
Will Washington State Voters Make History on Climate Change?
The state could be the first in the union to adopt a carbon price by ballot. Updated on August 15 at 4:30 p.m. ET
“Hothouse Earth” Co-Author: The Problem Is Neoliberal Economics
By shifting to a “wartime footing” to drive a rapid shift toward renewable energy and electrification, humanity can still avoid the apocalyptic future laid out in the much-discussed “hothouse earth” paper, a lead author of the paper told The Intercept.
Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals
Would you advise someone to flap towels in a burning house? To bring a flyswatter to a gunfight? Yet the counsel we hear on climate change could scarcely be more out of sync with the nature of the crisis.
Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”
The novella-length piece represents the kind of media commitment that the climate crisis has long deserved but almost never received.
Rising seas: 'Florida is about to be wiped off the map'
In 1890, just over six thousand people lived in the damp lowlands of south Florida. Since then the wetlands that covered half the state have been largely drained, strip malls have replaced Seminole camps, and the population has increased a thousandfold.
78 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump
Since his first days in office, President Trump has made eliminating federal regulations a priority.
E.P.A. Prepares to Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars to Be Cleaner and More Efficient
The Trump administration is expected to launch an effort in coming days to weaken greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for automobiles, handing a victory to car manufacturers and giving them ammunition to potentially roll back industry standards worldwide.
FEMA Strips Mention of ‘Climate Change’ From Its Strategic Plan
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, responsible for dealing with the effects of disasters like hurricanes and floods, has stripped the words “climate change” from the document meant to guide its actions over the next four years. FEMA on Thursday released its strategic plan for 2018-2022.
Column: Study indicates that climate change will wreak havoc on California agriculture
The California we know is the breadbasket of the nation, producing more than two-thirds of the country’s fruits and nuts, including almonds, pistachios, oranges, apricots, nectarines and prunes, and more than a third of its vegetables, including artichokes, broccoli, spinach and carrots.
FEMA Drops 'Climate Change' From Its Strategic Plan
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the federal government's first responder to floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters, has eliminated references to climate change from its strategic planning document for the next four years.
From North Dakota to Puerto Rico, Controversial Security Firm Profits From Oil Protests and Climate Disasters
TigerSwan, the mercenary security company best known for its efforts to suppress indigenous-led resistance to the Dakota Access oil pipeline, is stepping up its pursuit of profits in areas hit by climate change-driven natural disaster.
Trump Moves to Open Nearly All Offshore Waters to Drilling
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Thursday it would allow new offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all United States coastal waters, giving energy companies access to leases off California for the first time in decades and opening more than a billion acres in the Arctic and along the E
GOP Pushes 80 Anti-Environment Riders, Dark Money Rule Changes in Spending Bill
Congressional Republicans are planning a two-fisted assault on climate and other environmental policies as they push a must-pass spending package for the current fiscal year, which is already half over.
This is what America will look like if we follow Trump’s climate policies
The United States faces a choice between manageable warming and unmanageable catastrophe, according to a leaked draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies.
Oil Was Central in Decision to Shrink Bears Ears Monument, Emails Show
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The Year Climate Change Began to Spin Out of Control
For decades, scientists have warned that climate change would make extreme events like droughts, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires more frequent, more devastating, or both.
3.5 Billion-Year-Old Fossils Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start
In the arid, sun-soaked northwest corner of Australia, along the Tropic of Capricorn, the oldest face of Earth is exposed to the sky. Drive through the northern outback for a while, south of Port Hedlund on the coast, and you will come upon hills softened by time.
Arctic temperatures are soaring, and scientists are freaking out
It was the warmest December on record in the Arctic, and 2018 has already set a string of records for lowest Arctic sea ice. Unfortunately for America and the rest of the planet, the best science makes clear that what happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic.
Abrupt Climate Change During the Last Ice Age
Alley, R. B. Ice-core evidence of abrupt climate changes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97, 1331-1334 (2000).Alley, R. B. et al. Abrupt climate change. Science 299, 2005-2010 (2003). Birchfield, G. E. & Broecker, W. S.
Idaho lawmakers decide to approve state curriculum with climate science intact
After a year of back and forth between educators, scientists, and lawmakers, climate science might once again be part of the statewide curriculum for public schools in Idaho.
Study: "Amplified Warming" Has Ended the Era of Stable Climate
(Image: Johner Images / Getty Images) A study recently published in the journal Nature brings grim news: anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) has officially ended the era of stable climate that has made possible the development of modern civilization.
The Military Takes Climate Change Seriously. Why Won’t the Commander-in-Chief?
As we all know by now, the Trump administration is rife with climate deniers. Defense Secretary James Mattis, however, isn’t one of them.
White House to ask for 72 percent cut in renewable energy programs: report
President Trump’s administration is reportedly seeking a 72 percent cut to the budget of Department of Energy programs related to energy efficiency and renewable energy. Draft budget documents obtained by The Washington Post show the Trump administration will ask for $575.
New emails reveal Scott Pruitt was personally involved in erasing climate data from EPA website
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt was personally involved in the purging of information from the agency’s website in the early months of the Trump administration, according to documents obtained by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
Trump Names BP Oil Spill Lawyer, Climate Policy Foe as Top DOJ Environment Attorney
Jeffrey Bossert Clark, a lawyer who has repeatedly challenged the scientific foundations of U.S.
200+ Scientists Want Trump-Backer and Climate Denial Funder Rebekah Mercer Kicked Off Natural History Museum Board
More than 200 scientists have called on the American Museum of Natural History to cut ties with board member Rebekah Mercer, the billionaire backer of President Donald Trump who has also funded "climate denial" groups in order to protect the fossil fuel industry's pollution-causing extraction of oi
Fighting Climate Change? We’re Not Even Landing a Punch
In 1988, when world leaders convened their first global conference on climate change, in Toronto, the Earth’s average temperature was a bit more than half a degree Celsius above the average of the last two decades of the 19th century, according to measurements by NASA.
Global Warming’s Worst-Case Projections Look Increasingly Likely
Global warming’s worst-case projections look increasingly likely, according to a new study that tested the predictive power of climate models against observations of how the atmosphere is actually behaving.
Climate change is turning 99 percent of these baby sea turtles female
For every young male turtle, there are more than 100 females.
As New York City Declares War on the Oil Industry, the Politically Impossible Suddenly Seems Possible
The T-shirts and stickers were nice, but I have to admit that I never really felt it. Bigger than fossil fuels? With their bottomless budgets? Their endless capacity to blanket the airwaves and bankroll political parties? The slogan always made me kind of sad.
New York City sues Shell, ExxonMobil and other oil companies over climate change
But one oil company spokesman called the suit “factually and legally meritless."
Interior rescinds climate, conservation policies because they’re ‘inconsistent’ with Trump’s energy goals
The move wipes away guidance for department employees on how to minimize the environmental impact of activities on federal land and in federal waters.
Trump Moves to Open Nearly All Offshore Waters to Drilling
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Thursday it would allow new offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all United States coastal waters, giving energy companies access to leases off California for the first time in decades and opening more than a billion acres in the Arctic and along the E
As Trump’s Climate Denial Continues, Experts Take Flight to France
Many East Coasters will be returning to work today in bitter cold conditions after the second-coldest New Year on record. “In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record.
On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming
It was a typical November day in New York City. The year: 1959. Robert Dunlop, 50 years old and photographed later as clean-shaven, hair carefully parted, his earnest face donning horn-rimmed glasses, passed under the Ionian columns of Columbia University’s iconic Low Library.
How Climate Change Deniers Rise to the Top in Google Searches
Want the latest climate news in your inbox? You can sign up here to receive Climate Fwd:, our new email newsletter. Type the words “climate change” into Google and you could get an unexpected result: advertisements that call global warming a hoax.
2017 was a terrible year of climate disasters -- and too many media outlets failed to tell the story
From hurricanes to heat waves to wildfires and beyond, 2017 has been a terrifying year of disasters in the U.S. And too many media outlets have missed a key part of the story: These aren't just natural disasters; in many cases, they're climate disasters.
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The Republican Tax Bill Will Devastate Science
In any household, how you budget is an indication of your priorities. And as many of us know, the earlier you start investing, the more it pays off. The same is true for the federal government.’The Republican tax bill passed by Congress this week is estimated to cost our country, at best, $1.
EPA Head Pruitt on Climate Change: Dead Wrong. Three Fundamental Scientific Facts He Needs to Know.
This morning EPA administrator Scott Pruitt got the facts dead wrong on climate change. Here are his remarks and a quick recap of three fundamental facts that scientists at NASA, NOAA, NSF, EPA, and beyond have established over decades.
Phoenix Will Be Almost Unlivable by 2050 Thanks to Climate Change
Sorry to put such a fine point on this, but even without climate change, Phoenix, Arizona, is already pretty uninhabitable.
The Justice Department moves to dismiss youth climate lawsuit
A group of 21 youths is suing the US government for its failure to protect their future by preventing harmful global warming impacts, but the Trump administration says the case should be dismissed.
E.P.A. Officials, Disheartened by Agency’s Direction, Are Leaving in Droves
This article was written through collaboration between The New York Times and ProPublica, the independent, nonprofit investigative journalism organization.
Checkmate: how do climate science deniers' predictions stack up?
When the global temperature readings are in for 2017, it’s going to be a very hard sell for climate-science deniers: 2017 will likely be ranked either side of 2015 as the second or third hottest year on record, with 2016 still in top spot.
Donald Trump to drop climate change from list of national security threats
Donald Trump is to remove climate change from the global threats listed in his National Security Strategy, due to be released on Monday.
Proselytizing Public School Official: ‘I’ll Stop When Someone Makes Me Stop’
It’s been over half a century since the Supreme Court first ruled that public schools cannot impose prayer on students.
Cashing Out From the Climate Casino
It’s hard to be optimistic about climate action, not in a week when federal scientists reported that “the Arctic shows no sign of returning” to the “reliably frozen region of recent past decades.
Trump's Censorship of Science Will Kill People
Do you want your medical treatment to be based on science? The Trump administration doesn't. Prominent public health advocates have expressed outrage about these measures. For example, Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, tweeted, "This is astonishing.
Data Mining Reveals the Way Humans Evaluate Each Other
The way we evaluate the performance of other humans is one of the bigger mysteries of cognitive psychology. This process occurs continuously as we judge individuals’ ability to do certain tasks, assessing everyone from electricians and bus drivers to accountants and politicians.
Seas may rise by 8 feet this century, inundating land that's home to 236 million people
The amount of sea level rise that many of us will experience in our lifetimes may be more than double what was previously anticipated, unless we sharply curtail greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study that factors in emerging, unsettling research on the tenuous stability of the Antarctic
Scientists Thought an Alaskan Weather Station Was Broken, But It Was Just Climate Change
That climate change is rapidly warming the Arctic is a given, but apparently the news hasn’t reached our algorithmic overlords. Scientists monitoring U.S.
Betsy DeVos – Extreme Image Makeover as Champion of Special-Needs Children
It was almost like she expected us all to forget who she actually is and her own sordid history with these kinds of children.
World Bank to end financial support for oil and gas extraction
The World Bank will end its financial support for oil and gas extraction within the next two years in response to the growing threat posed by climate change.
Zinke reprimanded park head after climate tweets | TheHill
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‘A different dimension of loss’: inside the great insect die-off
The Earth is ridiculously, burstingly full of life.
Final GOP tax bill would allow Arctic refuge drilling
A tax cut compromise reached Wednesday by GOP negotiators contains a plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Sen.
Schumer promises a Senate vote on overturning FCC's net neutrality repeal
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Friday that he intends to force a vote on a bill that would preserve Obama-era net neutrality rules, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to repeal this week.
CDC gets list of forbidden words: Fetus, transgender, diversity
Agency analysts have been told to avoid these seven banned words and phrases in budget documents.
'No More Climate Tweets': Zinke Scolds Head of National Park for Tweeting About Scientific Reality
Back in November, the official Twitter account of Joshua Tree National Park sent out a series of tweets that included facts about climate change in general and how it's affecting the immense park in southern California.
The Alps Are Melting. Climate Change Is to Blame
It took a long time for the Earth to create the Alps—a lot longer than it’s taking humans to wreck them. The Alpine mountain range first rose an estimated 44 million years ago, when the great African plate began creeping northward, breaking and upthrusting the European plate.
This city in Alaska is warming so fast, algorithms removed the data because it seemed unreal
If climate change is a fiery coal mine disaster, then Barrow is our canary.
Betsy DeVos is forcing scammed students to repay loans for meaningless degrees
Every year, students concede to the rising cost of college tuition in hopes they’ll land a big enough salary after graduation to pay off whatever debt they incurred along the way.
Some cities are going to lose their perfect weather to climate change. How'd you do?
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Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch Have Set Our Future on Fire
The fires and storms ravaging the planet are only going to get worse, especially if we don’t end the power of climate deniers. This post originally first appeared at The Nation.
France Is Poaching US Scientists With $70 Million Anti-Trump Climate Grants
Just before the opening of a major climate summit in the French capital, President Macron awarded 18 climate change-focused research grants to researchers from all over the planet.
EPA chief says public climate debate may be launched in January
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could launch a public debate about climate change as soon as January, Administrator Scott Pruitt said on Thursday, as the agency unwinds Obama-era initiatives to fight global warming.
Katharine Hayhoe: 'The true threat is the delusion that our opinion of science somehow alters its reality'
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe says that scientists have no option but to fight against the politicisation of science
Why incompetent people often think they’re actually the best
There’s a psychological phenomenon behind it: the Dunning-Kruger effect. Maybe you’ve experienced this at school or work before: Dealing with someone who thinks he’s much better at his job than he really is.
http://ewao.com/2017/09/17/science-confirms-intelligent-people-go-to-bed-late-leave-a-mess-everywhere-and-use-bad-language/
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How to Stop Violence
The deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida, has reignited the debate about the mental health of mass shooters and whether treating mental illness could reduce the death toll wrought by gun violence. In 2014, psychologist Laura L.
Syria Signs Paris Agreement Leaving America As The Only Nation On Earth To Reject It
America First clearly means America alone: It is now officially the only country in the world to not sign onto the Paris agreement.
Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016
Concentrations of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere surged to a record high in 2016, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Last year's increase was 50% higher than the average of the past 10 years.
Trump Administration Issues Report Confirming Global Warming
The Trump Administration released a sweeping federal climate report concluding that the Earth is warming at an alarming rate due to human activity.
Scott Pruitt Just Destroyed The EPA's Scientific Advisory Boards
Scott Pruitt signed a new directive at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this Tuesday that all but annihilated what was left of its scientific advisory boards.
Pruitt guts EPA science panels, will appoint new members
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday he intends to replace the outside experts that advise him on science and public health issues with new board members holding more diverse views.
Scott Pruitt blocks scientists with EPA funding from serving as agency advisers
The unprecedented move could fundamentally shift the guidance EPA receives for crafting environmental regulations.
Portugal Doesn't Enforce Net Neutrality. This Is What Their Internet Looks Like
Update: The exact nature of the situation in Portugal was originally incorrectly reported. We've since updated the article. The basic principle of net neutrality is hard to disagree with.
The Top 12 Schools For Computer Science In 2017
Ever wonder which of the world’s colleges are best at teaching computer science?
I started collecting ER bills. The American Hospital Association started warning its members.
These prices are often kept secret. Vox is trying to change that. The American Hospital Association is warning its members about Vox’s emergency room billing project.
Democrats Are Letting the Climate Crisis Go To Waste
What should be a sparkling opportunity to push forward an ambitious agenda on climate — to condemn Republicans for not just ignoring but fueling a crisis with increasingly human and economic consequences — is going quite literally up in smoke.
EPA yanks scientists’ conference presentations, including on climate change
Two staff members and a contractor were instructed not to speak as planned at a Narragansett Bay program.
Scientists agree: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
If you're feeling sleepy and want to wake yourself up — and have 20 minutes or so to spare before you need to be fully alert — there's something you should try. It's more effective than drinking a cup of coffee or taking a quick nap. It's drinking a cup of coffee and then taking a quick nap.
Scientists May have Just Found An Ecological Apocalypse That's Occurring Right Under Our Noses
Just over three-quarters of flying insects in Germany’s nature reserves have disappeared in less than 30 years. Something that is likely to represent a worrying global trend.
90 Companies Helped Cause the Climate Crisis—They Should Pay for It
Pacific Northwest forests are on fire. Several blazes are out of control, threatening rural towns, jumping rivers and highways, and covering Portland, Oregon, Seattle, and other cities in smoke and falling ash. Temperatures this summer are an average of 3.
The Case Against Reality
As we go about our daily lives, we tend to assume that our perceptions—sights, sounds, textures, tastes—are an accurate portrayal of the real world.
Migraines May Be Brain’s Way of Dealing With Oxidative Stress
Summary: Migraine triggers can increase oxidative stress, a new study reports. Targeting oxidative stress may help to prevent migraines. Source: Wiley.
Leading Scientist Warns There's An Apocalypse Coming, And It's Not The One You Expect
A top scientist has called for a global effort to stop the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, warning that if we don't act now 10 million people could die a year from drug-resistant diseases.
Conservatives Don’t Deny Climate Science Because They’re Ignorant. They Deny It Because of Who They Are.
For many years, the US National Science Foundation, more recently with the help of the General Social Survey, has asked the public the same true or false question about evolution: “Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.
Trump Names Former Texas Regulator as White House Environmental Adviser
Kathleen Hartnett White, President Trump’s pick to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, at Trump Tower in Manhattan last November.Credit...
The House Science Committee’s Anti-Science Rampage
If you know the answers you want in advance, you can always find them by cherry-picking your data.
Scientists just saw two stars crashing so hard they made the universe wobble and produce gold
Scientists have observed two stars slamming into each other deep in space, sending out huge amounts of gold in an alchemical explosion.
78 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump
Since his first days in office, President Trump has made eliminating federal regulations a priority.
High intelligence: A risk factor for psychological and physiological overexcitabilities
High intelligence is touted as being predictive of positive outcomes including educational success and income level. However, little is known about the difficulties experienced among this population.
Penguins die in 'catastrophic' Antarctic breeding season
All but two Adelie penguin chicks have starved to death in their east Antarctic colony, in a breeding season described as "catastrophic" by experts. It was caused by unusually high amounts of ice late in the season, meaning adults had to travel further for food.
Top 99 Cities for Graffiti Art
At Bombing Science, we wanted to get a sense of what was going on with graffiti this summer and what better way to do that than to explore where people were using the #graffiti hashtag around the world.
The E.P.A.’s Smoke and Mirrors on Climate
The Trump administration has mangled the costs and benefits of one of the most significant climate regulations of the Obama years in an effort to justify its repeal, which Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced on Monday.
EPA To Kill Off Obama's Signature Plan To Fight Climate Change
Update: On the morning of October 9, the EPA officially confirmed that it will repeal the Clean Power Plan this coming Tuesday.
Trump Nominates a Coal Lobbyist to Be No. 2 at E.P.A.
President Trump on Thursday nominated Andrew R. Wheeler, a coal lobbyist with links to outspoken deniers of established science on climate change, to help lead the Environmental Protection Agency. In announcing Mr. Wheeler, a former aide to Senator James M.
The science behind why fake news is so hard to wipe out
It’s time for Facebook and Google to pay attention to the psychology of the illusory truth effect.
Miles of Algae Covering Lake Erie
Scientists say that algae blooms have been a growing problem for Lake Erie since the 2000s, mostly because of the extensive use of fertilizer on the region’s farmland.
What every American needs to know about Puerto Rico’s hurricane disaster
Nine essential things to know about Puerto Rico's humanitarian crisis. Early on Wednesday, September 20, Hurricane Maria — a powerful Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph winds — made direct landfall on Puerto Rico, bisecting the entire island and drenching it with feet of rain.
Scientists Discover Biophotons In The Brain That Could Hint Our Consciousness is Directly Linked to Light!
Scientists found that neurons in mammalian brains were capable of producing photons of light, or “Biophotons”! The photons, strangely enough, appear within the visible spectrum. They range from near-infrared through violet, or between 200 and 1,300 nanometers.
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The Pentagon is ignoring Trump's mandate to treat climate change as a hoax
REUTERS/Mike SegarThe Department of Defense has circumvented a mandate by President Donald Trump to stop preparing for climate change and, under Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ leadership, is moving forward with an Obama-era plan to address global warming as a serious threat to national security, Mi
Machine Learning A-Z™: Hands-On Python & R In Data Science
Hi. My name is Hadelin de Ponteves. Always eager to learn, I invested a lot of my time in learning and teaching, covering a wide range of different scientific topics. Today I am passionate about machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence.
If Humanity Doesn't Turn Back from Climate Abyss, Says Pope, 'We Will Go Down'
Speaking with reporters as Hurricane Irma barreled up Florida's Gulf Coast on Sunday, Pope Francis bolstered his reputation as an outspoken advocate of addressing man-made global warming when he said aboard the papal plane that "history will judge" climate change deniers.
EPA chief on Irma: The time to talk climate change isn’t now
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt told CNN in an interview about Hurricane Irma on Thursday that the time to talk about climate change isn’t now.
Irma Won’t “Wake Up” Climate Change-Denying Republicans. Their Whole Ideology Is on the Line.
He gathered his cabinet at Camp David and said there was no time to waste. With Hurricane Irma set to potentially devastate huge swaths of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, now was the time, he said, to rush through massive … tax cuts. Yes, that’s right.
Yes, the climate has always changed. This comic shows why that’s no comfort.
Randall Munroe, the author of the webcomic XKCD, has a habit of making wonderfully lucid infographics on otherwise difficult scientific topics. Everyone should check his take on global warming. It’s a stunning graphic showing Earth’s recent climate history. Take some time with it.
10,853 out of 10,855 scientists agree: Global warming is happening, and humans are to blame
By Lindsay Abrams (Salon): As geochemist James Lawrence Powell continues to prove, the only people still debating whether or not climate change is “real,” and caused by human activity, are the ones who aren’t doing the actual research.
As Scott Pruitt Denies, People Die
At the moment, Hurricane Irma is poised to come right up the center of Florida like a big old rusty catheter. Out on the ocean blue, Jose has beefed up to Category 4 status and, in the Gulf of Mexico, Katia, the runt of the current litter, is up to a Category 2 her own self.
As Planet Rages With Fires and Storms, Ire Aimed at Murderous Climate Denialism
As Houston begins its long recovery from Hurricane Harvey, epic wildfires burn throughout the western U.S.
Those 3% of scientific papers that deny climate change? A review found them all flawed
Reuters/StringerHard to deny.From our ObsessionLife as LaboratoryBy Health and science reporterPublished Last updated on September 8, 2017This article is more than 2 years old.
Here’s what the world’s most accurate weather model predicts for Irma
Note: This story was written during the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 6. As of Thursday morning, the forecasts discussed within are still more or less accurate. However we will post an updated story based upon the latest model data by around 3:30pm ET on Thursday.
The best way to drink whiskey, according to science
Scotch drinkers say adding water makes the spirit taste better, and a new study shows why.
Column: A new study shows how Exxon Mobil downplayed climate change when it knew the problem was real
Big corporations are known for being two-faced — presenting a nurturing, maternal face to the outside world while ruthlessly pursuing profit on the inside.
House Republican introduces measure to defund key climate research
Refineries: As of yesterday afternoon, 10 refineries in the Corpus Christi and Houston area are offline, with a combined capacity of roughly 2.2 million barrels per day, or roughly 12 percent of the U.S total, according to an Energy Department report.
Houston’s flooding shows what happens when you ignore science and let developers run rampant
Since Houston, Texas was founded nearly two centuries ago, Houstonians have been treating its wetlands as stinky, mosquito-infested blots in need of drainage.
Mike Adams, a.k.a. the Health Ranger, a health scamster profiled
Anyone who's read this blog knows my opinion of Mike Adams, the proprietor of the quack website known as NaturalNews.com. It is not favorable, to put it mildly.
A Total Beginner’s Guide to Keeping a Journal
I’ve always been bad at journaling. All my childhood diaries include major gaps: In one entry, I’m 8, visiting my aunt. In the very next, I’ve experienced puberty and have a crush on Justin, the kid who sits behind me in biology.
Exxon researched climate science. Understood it. And misled the public.
New research shows the company gamed the public for years with things its own climate scientists knew were false. The world’s largest oil company has been under some scrutiny lately.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/climate-change-government-draft-review-usa-environment-spd/
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State Dept. science envoy resigns with letter that spells out 'Impeach'
The science envoy for the State Department has resigned following President Trump's response to the violent clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Mr. President, I am resigning as Science Envoy.
Stop treating science denial like a disease
The elevation of science to a central theme in American politics is an extraordinary development in the co-evolution of science and society.
Study Confirms ExxonMobil Knew About Climate Change Decades Ago, And Deliberately Misled Public
Nowadays, ExxonMobil – one of the foremost energy giants in the world – is attempting, slowly, to move on from its oil-guzzling past.
Genetics provide powerful evidence of evolution
Many people are under the false impression that evolution is just a guess or a belief, when in reality, it is one of the most well-supported concepts in all of science.
Trump disbands federal advisory panel on climate change: report
The Trump administration will push ahead with disbanding a federal advisory panel that reported on climate change, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The group worked on the National Climate Assessment, the mandated quadrennial report that was leaked last month as a draft.
The Christian Science Monitor Daily for August 14, 2017
Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views. What a president says matters.
Major Climate Change Denial Think Tank Admits To Using False Data
Does a bear shit in the woods? Is the Pope a Catholic? These questions are as rhetorical as this one: Are climate change deniers talking out of their backsides? The answer, plainly, is yes – and now a major group spreading false claims about climate science has at least come out and admitted just
Psychologists surveyed hundreds of alt-right supporters. The results are unsettling.
The white supremacists marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past weekend were not ashamed when they shouted, “Jews will not replace us.” They were not ashamed to wear Nazi symbols, to carry torches, to harass and beat counterprotesters. They wanted their beliefs on display.
US Justice Department Wants To Know Identities Of 1.3 Million Anti-Trump Web Users
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has formally requested that the IP addresses of 1.3 million people that visited an anti-Trump protest organizing website, disruptj20.org, be handed over – along with their contact information, email addresses and content, and photograph uploads.
James Damore has sued Google. His infamous memo on women in tech is still nonsense.
Don’t be taken in by the document’s faux-reasonable tone. James Damore, the man fired by Google last year after he wrote a memo arguing that there may be biological reasons why women are underrepresented at Google and other tech companies, has sued his former employer.
Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Blunt Climate Report
WASHINGTON — The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration.
Deepening "Crisis" In US Reveals One In Eight Americans Are Now Alcoholics
The “opioid epidemic” continues to be the weight quietly sitting on the shoulders of the US. However, a dramatic rise in dangerously heavy drinking across the country suggests that alcoholism could be a new epidemic hiding in plain sight. Latest figures show that 12.
9 Takeaways From the National Climate Report
Climate NADJA POPOVICHA scientific report on climate change , part of a regular federal climate assessment, shows that warming is already having a large effect on the United States.obtained by The New York Times 1. It’s hot out there.
Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per year
Fossil fuels have two major problems that paint a dim picture for their future energy dominance. These problems are inter-related but still should be discussed separately. First, they cause climate change.
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/17-psychological-tricks-to-make-people-like-you-immediately/
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Learn Anything in Four Steps With the Feynman Technique
With the Feynman Technique, you learn by teaching someone else a topic in simple terms so you can quickly pinpoint the holes in your knowledge. After four steps, you're able to understand concepts more deeply and better retain the information.
The American South Will Bear the Worst of Climate Change’s Costs
Climate change will aggravate economic inequality in the United States, essentially transferring wealth from poor counties in the Southeast and the Midwest to well-off communities in the Northeast and on the coasts, according to the most detailed economic assessment of the phenomenon ever conducted.
The global crackdown on parents who refuse vaccines for their kids is on
Countries like Germany and Australia are tired of measles outbreaks — so they're moving to fine anti-vaccine parents. There’s a school of thought that refusing vaccines on behalf of your children amounts to child abuse, and that parents should be punished for their decision.
People With Anxiety Disorders are Hiding These 5 Superpowers (Backed by Science)
Anxiety is something that can feel as if it does nothing but damage, however, that is not always the case. Anxiety in itself comes with some ‘superpowers’ depending on how you look at it. If you have anxiety try looking at the good aspects rather than the bad.
Seattle-caught salmon found to contain cocaine, antidepressants and pain relievers
Salmon is purported to be one of the healthiest foods due to its high omega-3 content, protein, and essential fatty acids, but if the fish is obtained from the Puget Sound, it is anything but healthy.
Ancient Methane Is Erupting Into The Sky Far More Often Than Anyone Expected
Methane is an incredibly potent greenhouse gas. Although it breaks down far quicker in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it traps heat around 36 times more effectively in the long-term.
Methane Seeps Out as Arctic Permafrost Starts to Resemble Swiss Cheese
Global warming may be unleashing new sources of heat-trapping methane from layers of oil and gas that have been buried deep beneath Arctic permafrost for millennia.
Trump Administration Is Demoting Scientists In The Hope They'll Quit, Says Whistleblower
Climate change is a dirty word in the United States federal government.
https://thinkprogress.org/no-el-nino-still-hot-39162a5cc5bc
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Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals
Would you advise someone to flap towels in a burning house? To bring a flyswatter to a gunfight? Yet the counsel we hear on climate change could scarcely be more out of sync with the nature of the crisis.
INTENSITY OF EMOTION TIED TO PERCEPTION AND THINKING
EMOTIONAL intensity, a major, lifelong aspect of temperament, is emerging as a fruitful area of research that is yielding rich insights into how people experience themselves and others.
The Uninhabitable Earth, Annotated Edition
We published “The Uninhabitable Earth” on Sunday night, and the response since has been extraordinary — both in volume (it is already the most-read article in New York Magazine’s history) and in kind.
Science Says Happier People Have These 9 Things In Common
Everybody wants to be happy.
The Science Of 'Happily Ever After': 3 Things That Keep Love Alive
Anyone in a relationship or who plans on being in one needs to know how to keep love alive over the long term. But how do you learn the secret to this? Everyone is happy to explain “how they met” but few give the details on “how they stayed together.”
Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says
Just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988, according to a new report.
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Can we be religious without God? Alain de Botton on "atheism 2.0."
De Botton, the author of several best-sellers, including How Proust Can Change your Life and Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believers Guide to the Uses of Religion, has made a career of concretizing big ideas for general audiences.
The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here
Historians may look to 2015 as the year when shit really started hitting the fan. Some snapshots: In just the past few months, record-setting heat waves in Pakistan and India each killed more than 1,000 people.
Why Men Should Masturbate 21 Times A Month According To Science
Calling all men – we have good news! Whilst it may seem hard to believe, masturbating frequently may actually result in a significantly lower risk of prostate cancer. Tragic news, I know.
New study confirms the oceans are warming rapidly
As humans put ever more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, the Earth heats up. These are the basics of global warming. But where does the heat go? How much extra heat is there? And how accurate are our measurements? These are questions that climate scientists ask.
Climate Change Will Lead to the Largest Transfer of Wealth in the Country's History
A groundbreaking study estimates the real economic consequences that climate change would bring to the U.S. by the end of the 21st century. Economic disparity will grow, hitting the American South the worst, while the country’s wealth will shrink.
You Don’t Have to Major in Computer Science to Do It as a Career
Basic economics suggests that if college students see booming demand for specific skills, a stampede to major in such lucrative fields should ensue.
World has three years left to stop dangerous climate change, warn experts
Avoiding dangerous levels of climate change is still just about possible, but will require unprecedented effort and coordination from governments, businesses, citizens and scientists in the next three years, a group of prominent experts has warned.
Louisiana Is Sinking More Rapidly Than Anyone Thought Due To Climate Change
Researchers from Tulane University in New Orleans have released a new study on the sinking of the Louisiana coast and things are not looking good for the Child of the Mississippi. Its sinking rate is greater than previous estimates for the state.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry says carbon emissions not main driver for climate change
WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Monday he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming, a statement at odds with mainstream scientific consensus but in line with the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Complex Mystery That Surrounds The Expansion Of The Universe
We learned that the universe is expanding less than 100 years ago and that the expansion is accelerated less than 20 years ago. It seemed we were really starting to get the hang of it and then science threw a curve ball.
Scott Pruitt Bails on the G7 Climate Talks Just Hours After His Arrival
The world would be laughing at us, if it weren’t for the fact that climate change is a global problem. EPA head Scott Pruitt traveled to Italy to represent the US in the Group of Seven climate talks yesterday.
Breitbart misrepresents research from 58 scientific papers to falsely claim that they disprove human-caused global warming
Five scientists analyzed the article and estimated its overall scientific credibility to be ‘very low’. more about the credibility rating A majority of reviewers tagged the article as: Cherry-picking, Derogatory, Flawed reasoning, Inaccurate, Misleading.
The myth of self-control
Psychologists say using willpower to achieve goals is overhyped. Here’s what actually works. As the Bible tells it, the first crime committed was a lapse of self-control. Eve was forbidden from tasting the fruit on the tree of knowledge. But the temptation was too much.
DeVos is Questioned About Campaign to Influence Climate Change Education
Four Democratic senators are sharply criticizing a conservative think tank’s efforts to bring climate change skepticism into the nation’s public schools as “industry funded” and “possibly fraudulent” and demanding to know whether federal education officials have been in contact with the
Exxon May Have Erased 7 Years of Tillerson’s ‘Wayne Tracker’ Emails, Witness Says
While U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was the CEO of Exxon, he had an email account under the name "Wayne Tracker". The account was set up to provide anonymity where top executives could address sensitive business matters, an Exxon technology officer said. Credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty
EU Will Ignore White House And Work Directly With US States On Paris Agreement
The US is slowly withdrawing from the Paris agreement, but the rest of the world’s not having it. Last week, the European Union and China released a joint statement declaring their intentions to move on with the Agreement with or without America.
New Evidence Links The Collapse of Aztec Society to a Deadly Salmonella Outbreak
When Spanish forces arrived in Mexico in 1519, the native population was estimated to be around 25 million. A century later, there were only around 1 million left, following several devastating outbreaks of disease brought in from overseas.
France is offering US scientists 4-year grants to move to the country and do research
If you are an American scientist, student, teacher, or business person working on climate change solutions, France would love for you to stay awhile.
This Simple Blood Test Can Predict Cancer Years Before Symptoms Appear
The technology, which involves scanning the blood for bits of DNA shed by tumours, is also referred to as a 'liquid biopsy', and these new results are getting us one step closer to a major upgrade in cancer diagnostics.
Why Climate Skeptics Are Wrong
At some point in the history of all scientific theories, only a minority of scientists—or even just one—supported them, before evidence accumulated to the point of general acceptance.
Map: These are the cities that climate change will hit first
New York and D.C. will hit the climate change tipping point in 2047 – just 34 years from now.
Making Ignorance Great Again
Donald Trump just took us out of the Paris climate accord for no good reason. I don’t mean that his decision was wrong. I mean, literally, that he didn’t offer any substantive justification for that decision.
What's Really Warming the World?
Methodology NASA's Model Researchers who study the Earth's climate create models to test their assumptions about the causes and trajectory of global warming. Around the world there are 28 or so research groups in more than a dozen countries who have written 61 climate models.
Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students
WELLSTON, Ohio — To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new science teacher’s lessons on climate change seemed explicitly designed to provoke her. So she provoked him back.
Paris Disagreement Donald Trump's Triumph of Stupidity
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other G-7 leaders did all they could to convince Trump to remain part of the Paris Agreement. But he didn't listen. Instead, he evoked deep-seated nationalism and plunged the West into a conflict deeper than any since World War II.
Here's How To Stop Donald Trump Destroying The World
President Trump is expected to announce this week that he will pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement, an unmitigated disaster for us all. (Editor's note - this has now happened) But a group of three friends in Christchurch, New Zealand, have a plan.
Republicans That Urged Trump To Exit Paris Are Funded By Fossil Fuel Companies
When you’re wondering why politicians vote or act one way or the other, the best thing to do is follow the money.
22 GOP senators signed a letter urging Trump to pull out of the Paris agreement
The GOP senators sent a two-page letter Thursday to President Donald Trump. The letter says remaining in the international agreement to reduce carbon emissions could fuel legal challenges to the administration's plans to roll back environmental regulations.
French President Emmanuel Macron Offers Refuge to American Climate Scientists
Updated: June 2, 7:23 a.m. EDT
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Trump’s Stupid and Reckless Climate Decision
People say, if all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail. We should be so lucky. President Trump has a hammer, but all he’ll use it for is to smash things that others have built, as the world looks on in wonder and in fear.
Climate Pact Pullout Reveals Trump's True Base
They came from Exxon, Apple, Unilever. Titans of industry. They begged. They pleaded. They cajoled and threatened: Elon Musk said he would quit advising the president.
Republican Congressman Says God Will 'Take Care Of' Climate Change
Michigan Rep. Tim Walberg said during a town hall in Coldwater, Mich., on Friday that while he believes climate change is real, it is not something for humans to solve. “I believe there’s climate change. I believe there’s been climate change since the beginning of time,” Walberg said.
Quitting the Paris climate agreement is a moral disgrace
President Trump is selling out our kids to give false hope to coal workers. No laid-off coal miners will get their jobs back from President Trump pulling the United States from the Paris accord on climate change. No extra oil rigs will sprout in the Gulf.
Scientists Say It Could Already Be "Game Over" For Climate Change
There's no doubt our planet is getting hotter and hotter, but the long-term outlook could be even worse than we thought. Scientists are now saying it might already be too late to avoid a temperature rise of up to 7.36 degrees Celsius (13.25 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels by 2100.
Scientists just published an entire study refuting Scott Pruitt on climate change
Pruitt wrote that satellite data show a 'leveling off of warming.' Scientists say that's not true.
Climate scientists: It’s basically too late to stop warming
If you like cool weather and not having to club your neighbors as you battle for scarce resources, now’s the time to move to Canada, because the story of the 21st century is almost written, reports Reuters.
Have We Passed the Point of No Return on Climate Change?
Dear EarthTalk: What is the best way to measure how close we are to the dreaded "point of no return" with climate change? In other words, when do we think we will have gone too far? — David Johnston, via EarthTalk.org
NASA Climate Scientist Says "We're Toast"
Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.
The 25 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century, From ‘Children of Men’ to ‘Her’
Sci-fi isn’t easily defined, but in determining the top 25 sci-fi movies of the last 17 years, we’ve done our best. No fantasy-super hero movies here; for an action, horror, or animated movie to be on this list, it needed to be firmly rooted in sci-fi origins.
A New Kind of Science: A 15-Year View
It’s now 15 years since I published my book A New Kind of Science — more than 25 since I started writing it, and more than 35 since I started working towards it. But with every passing year I feel I understand more about what the book is really about — and why it’s important.
Science Has Begun Taking Gluten Seriously
Every year more money is being spent studying the now-infamous plant protein gluten. The studying raises more questions. That leads to more money being spent. And then more questions. If there was more than one lecture in medical school where gluten came up, I don’t remember it.
Having a Lot of Money Affects Your Personality
Whether you have it or not, it's hard to get away from the influence of money. Your education, your profession, your partner, and your health are all directly influenced by it. So it's probably not that surprising that psychologists have found that money dramatically changes how we see the world.
Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas Has a Problem with Science – and with Voters
For most of his four years as chair of the Science Committee, Republican Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas has served up more spectacle than policy.
American Trees Are Moving West, and No One Knows Why
Climate change explains only 20 percent of the movement. As the consequences of climate change strike across the United States, ecologists have a guiding principle about how they think plants will respond.
23 Environmental Rules Rolled Back in Trump’s First 100 Days
President Trump, with help from his administration and Republicans in Congress, has reversed course on nearly two dozen environmental rules, regulations and other Obama-era policies during his first 100 days in office. Citing federal overreach and burdensome regulations, Mr.
India and China Are Emerging as Climate Icons
Donald Trump is trying his best to ensure that America burns coal, whatever the implications to the planet. While that’s unpalatable for many U.S.
Damage To Specific Site In The Brain May Be Linked To Religious Fundamentalism
Psychologists have always been fascinated as to why some people believe in a higher being, while others are happy to accept that we are alone in life.
'False sense of security': Global warming looks set to accelerate, study finds
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America has a water crisis no one is talking about
Outdated infrastructure is making water too expensive for millions of families. Access to clean water is a basic human right. Yet for 14 million US households, or 12 percent of homes, water bills are too expensive.
The great climate silence: we are on the edge of the abyss but we ignore it
After 200,000 years of modern humans on a 4.5 billion-year-old Earth, we have arrived at new point in history: the Anthropocene. The change has come upon us with disorienting speed. It is the kind of shift that typically takes two or three or four generations to sink in.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2017/03/01/a-sobering-history-calls-for-a-concerted-effort-to-save-the-worlds-largest-freshwater-lake-system/
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An astrophysicist used NASA data to make an insanely detailed map of US racial diversity
University of CincinnatiRacial diversity in the US, based on the the last census in 2010.From our ObsessionThe Identity EconomyBy Senior reporter, law & politics, DC.Published Last updated on April 28, 2017This article is more than 2 years old.
EPA website removes climate science site from public view after two decades
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday evening its website would be “undergoing changes” to better represent the new direction the agency is taking, triggering the removal of several agency websites containing detailed climate data and scientific information.
1.2 million children in the US have lead poisoning. We’re only treating half of them.
Several states are doing an abysmal job of testing at-risk children for lead poisoning.
Arctic Ocean on track to be ice-free in summer by 2040
The Arctic Ocean is on track to become ice-free in summers as soon as two decades from now, while autumn and winter temperatures in the Arctic, if carbon emissions are not controlled, will be about 22 degrees higher in 2100 than they were at the end of the 20th century.
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Remember fifth grade? That tumultuous time between elementary school and middle school? There’s a lot changing around you, and on top of that, you’re expected to know some really hard things! The knowledge that kids learn isn’t always relevant to day-to-day life, as we all know.
https://thinkprogress.org/disintegrating-polar-ice-sets-the-stage-for-societal-collapse-e9da953f6aed
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Marches for Science Outdraw Donald Trump’s Inauguration
Millions of people are marching today for science. Police estimate 40,000 people marched in Chicago, an absolutely breathtaking sight: The #MarchForScience in Chicago. Amazing. ??pic.twitter.com/CYkmL6HCLz
These Images Carry a Dire Warning About Climate Change
Polar photographer Paul Nicklen is capturing some of Earth's most remote places before they disappear. Meltwater gushes from an ice cap on the island of Nordaustlandet, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. (Photo courtesy of Paul Nicklen)
Why I Take Fake Pills
So here they are,” John Kelley said, taking a paper bag off his desk and pulling out a big amber pill bottle. He looked momentarily uncertain. “I don’t really know how to do this,” he admitted. I’ve known Kelley for decades, ever since we were undergrads together.
The benefits and harms of marijuana, explained by the most thorough research review yet
A new report looks at more than 10,000 studies on marijuana. It has good and bad news for pot users. Marijuana has been with humans in some way or another for thousands of years. But after all this time, there is still a lot of public debate about what, exactly, pot’s risks and benefits are.
Sea level rise could send U.S. 'climate migrants' fleeing to these cities
Sea level rise is typically thought of as a coastal problem, with cities from New York to San Francisco pondering new coastal defenses such as sea walls and sturdier buildings. However, by making large swaths of the U.S.
Where climate change is threatening the health of Americans
As President Donald Trump looks to curb the government’s enforcement of climate regulations, experts are concerned about how the action might impact public health.
Here's A List Of All The Science That Donald Trump Denies
Inauguration update: Since we first published this piece, two things have happened. One, Donald Trump was duly elected to be the 45th President of the United States of America. Two, both his cabinet and the angry orange one himself have continued to spout some profoundly anti-scientific things.
How many American atheists are there really?
Here’s a simple question: How many Americans don’t believe in God? Pew and Gallup — two of the most reputable polling firms in America — both come to a similar figure.
Democrats Condemn Climate Change Skeptics for Targeting Teachers
Three top Democrats have urged a libertarian think tank to stop mailing climate change skeptical classroom materials to teachers across America.
Carbon Dioxide Concentration
Over the past 171 years, human activities have raised atmospheric concentrations of CO2 by 48% above pre-industrial levels found in 1850. This is more than what had happened naturally over a 20,000 year period (from the Last Glacial Maximum to 1850, from 185 ppm to 280 ppm).
Climate change could destroy far more Arctic permafrost than we thought — which would worsen climate change
Thawing of Arctic's frozen soil could have big effects on global climate
Discovery Of 14,000-Year-Old Settlement In Canada Could Rewrite North American History
The ancient stories of the indigenous Heiltsuk Nation people say that their ancestors sheltered on a mysterious strip of coastline in Canada during the last Ice Age. Thanks to a recent discovery of a 14,000-year-old settlement, science is now reaffirming those claims.
Sessions orders Justice Dept. to end forensic science commission, suspend review policy
Department to reduce role of independent scientists, suspends review of questioned testimony
The Science of Habit-Forming Products
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EPA shutting down climate adaptation program
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is shutting down a program at its headquarters that helps states and localities adapt to the effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels.
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What the optimists get wrong about Trump’s climate policies
After just three months, Donald Trump’s presidency certainly looks like a disaster for climate policy.
Climate change having wide array of effects on Michigan forests
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Climate Catastrophe Will Hit Tropics Around 2020, Rest Of World Around 2047, Study Says
The first study to integrate all prior scientific research in order to project approximately when climate change will produce permanent catastrophic consequences has been accepted and will soon be published in the scientific journal Nature, and it finds that things will start going haywire
Republican Senator Claims Human Body Heat Causes Climate Change
Earlier this month, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that he doesn’t think carbon dioxide is the primary driver of climate change. (Spoiler alert: it definitely is.
Trump’s Environmental Executive Order Is As Stupid As It Is Damaging
Donald Trump will sign another executive order on Tuesday, this one focused on unraveling the Clean Power Plan, rolling back environmental regulations, and eliminating any hope that the United States meets its obligations to the Paris climate agreement. This order is as damaging as it is dumb.
Jane Goodall calls Trump's climate change agenda 'immensely depressing'
The leading conservationist Jane Goodall has condemned Donald Trump’s bid to rip up America’s climate change policies as “immensely depressing” and flying in the face of scientific evidence.
Exxon Mobil Urged White House To Stick With Paris Climate Accord
Less than a week before President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back major elements of the Obama administration’s climate change policies, one of the largest gas and oil companies in America advised the White House to remain a participant in the Paris climate agreement.
Why global warming could lead to a rise of 100,000 diabetes cases a year in the U.S.
If the average temperature rises by 1 degree Celsius, sea levels will rise, crop yields will fall and vulnerable species will see their habitat shrink or disappear. And, a new study suggests, the number of American adults suffering from diabetes would rise by more than 100,000 a year.
The Republican war on science intensifies in the Trump era
Meet the new Environmental Protection Agency; it’s quite a bit worse than the most recent iteration of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Trump’s Climate Rollback Will Hurt the Economy, Not Help It
Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle President Obama’s climate legacy and policies. The White House claims that these actions will help the economy in general, and coal workers in particular. It’s wrong.
A Scientist Just Spent 2 Hours Debating the Biggest Global Warming Deniers in Congress
At a congressional hearing on climate science Wednesday, Michael Mann lamented that he was the only witness representing the overwhelming scientific consensus that manmade global warming poses a major threat.
“Irrational,” “Reckless,” “Irresponsible”: The EPA Just Accidentally Told the Truth About Trump’s Climate Plan
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump visited the Environmental Protection Agency, where he signed an executive order dismantling key Obama-era policies aimed at fighting climate change.
The idea of monogamy as a relationship ideal is based on flawed science
Reuters/China DailyThere are lots of ways to do it.By ReporterPublished This article is more than 2 years old.
Energy Department climate office bans use of phrase ‘climate change’
The Office of International Climate and Clean Energy is the only office at DOE with the words ‘climate’ in its name, and it may be endangered as Trump looks to reorganize government agencies.
Donald Trump Rewards Fossil Fuel Industry By Signing Climate Denial Executive Order
Trump’s executive order issued Tuesday doesn’t just knock over the centerpiece of Obama administration’s efforts to prevent the worst effects of climate change, the Clean Power Plan.
Why Some Biologists Are Abandoning Their Faith In Total Conservation
Gregor W. Schuurman has a long beard, blue eyes, and the ruddy look shared by scientists who spend a great deal of time outside.
I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations
As an Arctic researcher, I’m used to gaps in data. Just over 1% of US Arctic waters have been surveyed to modern standards. In truth, some of the maps we use today haven’t been updated since the second world war.
Trump moves decisively to wipe out Obama’s climate-change record
A presidential order on Tuesday instructs federal regulators to rewrite key rules curbing U.S. carbon emissions.
The Trump Administration’s War on Science
“Think of the marvels we can achieve if we simply set free the dreams of our people,” President Trump said in his speech to Congress last month, after summoning a list of technological triumphs from America’s past.
Earth's worst-ever mass extinction of life holds 'apocalyptic' warning about climate change, say scientists
Researchers studying the largest-ever mass extinction in Earth’s history claim to have found evidence that it was caused by runaway global warming – and that the “apocalyptic” events of 250 million years ago could happen again.
The State Department Rewrote Its Climate Change Page
Within a day of Rex Tillerson's swearing in as secretary of state, the State Department's climate change website began to change. The changes signal a shift away from leading international climate actions that the Obama administration pursued and a pivot toward a more passive role.
Photos Reveal More Than 200 Bright Blue Arctic Lakes Have Started Bubbling With Methane Gas
Satellite images have revealed more than 200 strange, bright blue lakes in Russia's Arctic regions that are bubbling "like jacuzzis" as a result of leaking methane gas.
Lamar Smith, unbound, lays out political strategy at climate doubters’ conference
Representative Lamar Smith (R–TX) rarely expresses his true feelings in public. But speaking yesterday to a like-minded crowd of climate change doubters and skeptics, the chairman of the science committee in the U.S.
Trump ally calls for US to roll back climate commitment
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who was an energy adviser and public ally for Trump's campaign, made arguments for a revised commitment in a letter outlining three conditions he wants Trump to abide by if he decides to stay in the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
Scientists made a detailed “roadmap” for meeting the Paris climate goals. It’s eye-opening.
Back in 2015, the world’s governments met in Paris and agreed to keep global warming below 2°C, to avoid the worst risks of a hotter planet. See here for background on why, but that’s the goal. For context, the planet’s warmed ~1°C since the 19th century.
The Mistrust of Science
The following was delivered as the commencement address at the California Institute of Technology, on Friday, June 10th. If this place has done its job—and I suspect it has—you’re all scientists now. Sorry, English and history graduates, even you are, too. Science is not a major or a career.
'Extreme and unusual' climate trends continue after record 2016
In the atmosphere, the seas and around the poles, climate change is reaching disturbing new levels across the Earth. That's according to a detailed global analysis from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Donald Trump's budget director calls efforts to combat climate change 'waste of money'
President Trump’s proposed budget plan calls for a $100 million cut in funding for climate change programmes. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget is proposed to be cut by 31 per cent, but the $100 million reduction in spending will target climate change programmes across agencies.
Fighting climate change isn’t a ‘waste of money’ — it’s a good investment
Scientists say that climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. But if you ask policy makers, you might hear them argue that combatting it is just too expensive a battle to fight.
Scientists Brace for a Lost Generation in American Research
The work of a scientist is often unglamorous. Behind every headline-making, cork-popping, blockbuster discovery, there are many lifetimes of work. And that work is often mundane. We’re talking drips-of-solution-into-a-Petri-dish mundane, maintaining-a-database mundane. Usually, nothing happens.
The Crazy Theory About Smog That’s Gaining Ground in the White House
This story was originally published by The New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was known as the Great Pea Soup. In 1952, a thick, greenish-yellow fog smothered London, halting traffic and daily life.
Republicans Break Ranks With Pledge to Fight Climate Change
Seventeen conservative Republican members of Congress—10 of them in their first or second terms—are bucking long-time party positions and the new occupant of the White House.
Science and medicine leaders say Trump budget would be dire for U.S.
President Trump's budget blueprint calls for massive cuts to federally funded research. The leaders of the scientific and medical establishment woke up to that startling news Thursday morning and quickly fired off statements of protest and alarm.
Trump’s budget calls for seismic disruption in medical and science research
Many targeted research agencies have historically had broad bipartisan support.
On first day in office, new Medicaid chief urges states to charge premiums, prod recipients to get jobs
Medicaid head Seema Verma and HHS Secretary Tom Price write governors about a system with more freedom, collaboration.
What 770,000 Tubes of Saliva Reveal About America
What do you do with 770,000 tubes of saliva collected from AncestryDNA customers? Ancestry® scientists have an unusual answer: create a ground-breaking map of America’s history-based diversity using the genetic data from the analysis of the samples.
Trump to drop climate change from environmental reviews: Bloomberg
The order, which could be signed this week, aims to reverse former Democratic President Barack Obama's broad approach for addressing climate change, the report said. (bloom.bg/2nkDvKo) The directive will urge the U.S.
Trump’s Defense secretary calls climate change a national security risk
According to a report, Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he believes in climate change and recognizes it as a threat. The statement came in unpublished written testimony associated with Mattis’s confirmation hearing.
The fossil fuel industry's invisible colonization of academia
On February 16, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center hosted a film screening of the “Rational Middle Energy Series.
Want To Stop Your Brain From Getting Old? Live In A Walkable Neighborhood
Brain training companies say that carefully designed computer games can make a brain work better, but neuroscientists and Alzheimer’s researchers have warned the public that such conclusions can be misleading.
Children Of Immigrants Are Top U.S. High School Science Performers
What would we lose if immigrants could no longer come to America? Surprisingly, one of the most important things America would lose is the contributions made by their children.
Sleeper issue of Medicaid’s future could prove health-care plans’ stumbling block
House Republican rewrite of ACA would alter half-century Medicaid compact between the government and states.
E.P.A. Head Stacks Agency With Climate Change Skeptics
WASHINGTON — Days after the Senate confirmed him as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference and was asked about addressing a group that probably wanted to eliminate his agency. In the days since, Mr.
How Anti-Science Forces Thrive On Facebook
In January, Natural News shared a big story on Facebook: A federal scientist had affirmed Donald Trump’s belief that vaccines cause autism.
The Indoor Garden That Can Feed an Entire Neighborhood
There’s a lot to appreciate about the Swedish company IKEA.
The dark psychology of dehumanization, explained
As anti-Muslim rhetoric increases under Trump, more Americans are seeing Muslims as less than human. You can think of human psychology as a series of overlapping mental programs. One program identifies faces as individuals we recognize.
Guess Which Word the EPA Just Deleted From Its Science Mission Statement
This story was originally published by the New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When President Donald Trump took office in late January, his administration began tweaking the language on government websites.
What Exactly Are People Marching for When They March for Science?
The event has around 21 stated goals. The March for Science began unceremoniously on January 25, with vague ambitions, a hastily designed logo, and a Facebook page inspired by a throwaway Reddit comment. Six weeks later, and it has blossomed into a huge movement.
Leashes Come Off Wall Street, Gun Sellers, Polluters and More
WASHINGTON — Giants in telecommunications, like Verizon and AT&T, will not have to take “reasonable measures” to ensure that their customers’ Social Security numbers, web browsing history and other personal information are not stolen or accidentally released.
http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/10940.html
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Canada’s permafrost is collapsing thanks to climate change
The climate-driven collapse of Canada’s Arctic permafrost is much more widespread than previously thought, according to new research that presents a dire picture of the changing northern landscape.
Chicago Records No Snow in January and February for the First Time in 146 Years
Chicago—a city well known for its windy and snowy winters—is experiencing some unusually warm weather. For the first time in 146 years, there was no documented snow on the ground in January and February, according to the local National Weather Service.
http://grist.org/briefly/these-maps-show-what-americans-think-about-climate-change/
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Watch Bill McKibben Talk Climate Change Battle on 'Real Time'
On a particularly bad day for Earth's wellbeing – the EPA revealed massive budgetary cuts while the Trump administration waffled on the Paris Agreement on climate change – environmentalist and 350.
White House seeks 17 percent budget cut for climate agency
The White House is proposing to cut the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a leading government agency on climate science, by a reported 17 percent.
Do environmental regulations reduce employment? Not really.
On Fox & Friends this morning, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt made reference to America’s “anti-jobs” environmental regulations.
Yale Climate Opinion Maps – U.S. 2016
Model estimates in the maps were derived from public responses to the following survey questions. The response categories for many questions were collapsed into a single variable for mapping.
An Explosion of Never-Before-Seen Minerals Could Mark The Dawn of Our New Geological Epoch
Scientists have identified a sudden explosion of mineral diversity on the surface of our planet that would not exist if it weren't for humans, adding weight to the argument that we're living in a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson snubs UN request for climate change meeting
The US Secretary of State, former oil industry mogul Rex Tillerson, has not responded to a request from the United Nations’ most senior climate change official for a face-to-face meeting amid concern about the Trump administration’s stance on global warming.
Study Shows Massive Global Permafrost Melt Underway While Trump Mentions Climate Not Once
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Massive Permafrost Thaw Documented in Canada, Portends Huge Carbon Release
Huge slabs of Arctic permafrost in northwest Canada are slumping and disintegrating, sending large amounts of carbon-rich mud and silt into streams and rivers.
Siberia's 'Doorway to The Underworld' Is Getting So Big It's Uncovering Ancient Forests
It's no secret that Siberia's permafrost has been on thin ice lately. Conditions are varying so much that huge holes are appearing out of nowhere, and, in some places, tundra is quite literally bubbling underneath people's feet.
Just who are these 300 'scientists' telling Trump to burn the climate?
If you read my articles regularly, you may have noticed multiple times I have stated that the scientific argument is over; there are no longer any reputable scientists that deny the overwhelming human influence in our climate.
Your Brain as Laboratory: The Science of Meditation
Meditation has surged in popularity in recent years, from a fringe interest to a mainstream trend championed by therapists, scientists, and celebrities. As part of this shift, misconceptions and dismissals have given way to the emerging recognition of meditation as a science.
Rachel Carson’s Brave and Prescient 1953 Letter Against the Government’s Assault on Science and Nature
In 1953, nearly a decade before she catalyzed the environmental movement with the publication of Silent Spring, trailblazing biologist and writer Rachel Carson (May 27, 1907–April 14, 1964) found herself with no choice but to embody the ethos that would come to animate her life: “To sin by silen
Investors with $2.8 trillion in assets unite against Donald Trump’s climate change denial
Bank of England governor Mark Carney holds the new £10 Jane Austen note issued into circulation. The Pride and Prejudice novelist only made £684 in her lifetime for publishing her books, approximately £50,000 in today's money
Wisconsin Tribe Votes to Evict Oil Pipeline From Its Reservation
The Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians in northern Wisconsin voted not to renew an easement for a major oil and gas pipeline that passes through its reservation.
Bassists Are The Most Important Member Of A Band—According To Science
In what will come as no surprise to anyone who loves rock ‘n’ roll or the blues, researchers have now determined that the bass guitar is the backbone of any song. Turns out our brains can find the rhythm more easily when it is played in a lower tone.
How to Fight the War on Science and Win
Attacks on science will affect all of us, in every aspect of our lives, whether or not we're scientists. This post originally appeared at The Macroscope.
Trump Science Adviser Pick: Carbon Is Demonized Like “Poor Jews Under Hitler”
President Trump is in need of a science adviser but hasn’t settled on a final candidate for the post yet. Among those in the running is a Princeton atomic physicist named William Happer.
Republican Panel: Air Pollution Doesn’t Kill People And Climate Change Is “Fake News”
On Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, a panel which called itself “Fake climate news camouflaging an anti-capitalist agenda—and what President Trump plans to do about it,” made some pretty interesting claims about the environmental movement.
Disney Researchers Make Wireless Power Transfer Breakthrough
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and… breakthroughs in wireless power transfer? Yep, scientists at a branch of the Walt Disney Company called Disney Research have found a way to charge devices on a room-scale without using any wires.
Spirit of Science and Buddhism
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Without One Mention of Climate Change, Scott Pruitt Greets EPA Employees
Newly sworn-in EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, whose nomination was ardently opposed by environmentalists and who is poised to roll back major climate and clean water regulations, addressed his employees for the first time Tuesday afternoon. Environmentalists were not impressed.
The War for Science
Make no mistake: There is a War on Science in America. The White House not only denies obvious, empirical facts on a regular basis, but they have invented the Orwellian concept of “alternative facts.
Trump to roll back Obama’s climate, water rules through executive action
President Trump is preparing executive orders aimed at reversing Obama-era policies on climate and water pollution, according to individuals briefed on the matter.
‘Fast-forward spring’: America’s February warmth is extreme, and it’s just getting started
The groundhog's Feb. 2 declaration of six more weeks of winter was fake news.
HELL TO PAY: Fukushima CONTAMINATED Entire PACIFIC OCEAN!
The Fukushima disaster in Japan has brought to the forefront the dangers of Worldwide nuclear radiation. The crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war”.
Climate Change Denial Is the Original Fake News
The great struggle of our era will be fact versus deliberate fiction.
Oxygen Levels In The Ocean Have Dropped Due To Climate Change
We know that climate change is having a drastic impact on the ice caps and glaciers, but it is also changing the chemical make-up of the oceans. While the levels of carbon dioxide are increasing, a new paper has documented how the concentration of oxygen in the oceans is decreasing.
Rich People Literally See the World Differently
The way you view the world depends on the culture you come from — in a granular, second-by-second sense.
Why conservatives are more likely than liberals to believe false information about threats
After an electoral season that blurred the line between fact and fantasy, a team of UCLA researchers is offering new evidence to support a controversial proposition: that when it comes to telling the difference between truth and fiction, not all potential voters see it the same way.
What Scott Pruitt’s confirmation means for the EPA
Of all Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, it’s hard to find anyone who’s been more overtly hostile toward the agency he’s about to lead than Scott Pruitt has been toward the Environmental Protection Agency.
Scientists' Group Launches Website to Help Federal Whistleblowers
Many of President Donald Trump's words and actions have federal scientists worried their work will be politicized or suppressed. Now, one advocacy group is responding with a step-by-step guide for scientists to securely share information about any foul play.
Idaho lawmakers vote to remove climate information from science curriculum
Last week, the Idaho House Education Committee voted to approve new statewide science standards for K-12 education for the first time since 2001.
Australian Heat Wave Raises Concern for Country’s New, Sizzling Normal
As wildfires raged and several weather stations reported all-time and monthly record highs, climate scientists warned that this summer’s extreme heat, super-charged by climate change, is becoming Australia’s new normal.
Well, This Might Be The Most Artistic Climate Change Ad You've Ever Seen
WHAT: "A Love Song", a poetic tribute to Earth from a group of U.K. charities and organizations committed to tackling climate change. WHY WE CARE: When Charles Dance’s says, darkly, "I’ve heard talk of a quiet violence waiting at the water’s edge," one sits up and pays attention.
Anthropocene Math in the Age of Trump: Humans Are Running Out of Time to Save the Climate
As the Trump administration and Republicans in power in Congress set to work destroying environmental regulations, scientists have added urgency to the resistance with a simple new equation that shows the staggering effect human activity has had on the climate.
Google's DeepMind Has An AI That Understands The Benefits Of Betrayal
It’s looking increasingly likely that artificial intelligence (AI) will be the harbinger of the next technological revolution.
Looming Climate Catastrophe: Extinction in Nine Years?
Reports from the Arctic are getting pretty grim.
A new brain study sheds light on why it can be so hard to change someone's political beliefs
Why we react to inconvenient truths as if they were personal insults. Albert Einstein was one of the most important physicists of all time. His scientific predictions have withstood 100 years of scientific challenges. His thinking fundamentally changed the way we understand the universe.
The Science of Flow Says Extreme Inequality Causes Economic Collapse
Editor’s Note: In an effort to center New Economic Thinking in the discussion of the COVID-19 crisis, we’ve curated a list of Evonomics articles relevant to this moment—including this one. Check out the full list here.
We’re probably underestimating how quickly electric vehicles will disrupt the oil market
Unpredictably rapid growth happens pretty predictably. Just about every analyst agrees that the electric vehicle market is poised for rapid growth. But how rapid?
Does An Anomaly In The Earth’s Magnetic Field Portend A Coming Pole Reversal?
The Earth is blanketed by a magnetic field. It’s what makes compasses point north, and protects our atmosphere from continual bombardment from space by charged particles such as protons.
The God Particle and Wisdom of the Ancients: Modern Science ‘Discovering’ What Our Indigenous Ancestors Surmised a Millennium Ago
Before Galileo Galilei and Sir Isaac Newton, the Lakota studied astronomy. Many indigenous peoples did. They were natural scientists.
Donald Trump is the sole reliable source of truth, says chair of House Science Committee
“Better to get your news directly from the president,” said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas. It is early days in the Trump administration. (I know it doesn’t feel like it. Check your calendar.
Here’s how America will change as soon as Donald Trump takes office
The process of making America great again will start with a bang. Donald Trump reportedly told Fox News’s Andrew Napolitano that he plans to issue as many as 200 executive orders by the Monday after his inauguration.
11 Key Findings From One Of The Most Comprehensive Reports Ever On The Health Effects Of Marijuana
The change in attitudes toward cannabis and in legal access to marijuana around the US over the past several years is staggering.
The case for eliminating sugar. All of it.
Gary Taubes argues in a new book that sugar is toxic and should be consumed as often as tobacco. As in, never. For years, the conventional wisdom about diet has been that we get fat because we eat too many calories.
The Smoking Gun of Arctic Warmth Leads To A Stunning Indictment
It normally takes many months to get a paper through peer review and into a journal, but a group of scientists has released their detection and attribution study early, and it’s a stunning indictment. We now know the culprit for the astonishing Arctic warmth of November and December.
Casual Sex: Everyone Is Doing It
Zhana Vrangalova had hit a problem. On a blustery day in early spring, sitting in a small coffee shop near the campus of New York University, where she is an adjunct professor of psychology, she was unable to load onto her laptop the Web site that we had met to discuss.
I’m a scientist who has gotten death threats. I fear what may happen under Trump.
Researchers brace for an anti-science administration and a public receptive to fake news.
Watch: CNN Anchor Informs Trump Transition Official That Climate Change Science Isn't A Matter Of Opinion
CHRIS CUOMO (ANCHOR): Well, you’ve got different conversations. You have “Do you accept the science of man's impact on the warming of the planet?” And then you have “Well, what policy considerations do you make in light of that science?” That's one discussion.
Fossil Fuel Divestments Now Represent $5.2 Trillion
Investing heavy weights are moving their assets and funds out of fossil fuels at a record pace. The Block Island Offshore Wind project. Renewable investments set a record last year, reaching $288 billion. Credit: NREL/flickr
Ties to Putin Are Nothing Compared to Rex Tillerson's Vast Climate Crimes
In a scene straight from a "dystopian movie script," President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday officially tapped Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be his Secretary of State, thus elevating someone whose "lifelong mission is to crash the climate" to one of world's most influential and powerful governme
A Possible Break in One of Evolution's Biggest Mysteries
Whales have a history that is among the strangest and least-understood of any animal—and barnacles might be the key to unlocking their secrets.
Trump says ‘nobody really knows’ if climate change is real
The president-elect said he is “studying” whether the United States should withdraw from the Paris agreement.
http://addictinginfo.org/2016/10/02/are-trump-supporters-too-dumb-to-know-theyre-dumb-science-says-probably/
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Trump Picks Climate Denialist Currently Suing The EPA To Head The EPA
As reported by the Washington Post, President-elect Donald Trump wishes to nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Leaked Document: Trump Wants to Identify Officials Who Worked on Obama Climate Policies
Donald Trump aides are attempting to identify Department of Energy staffers who played a role in promoting President Barack Obama’s climate policies, according to details of a leaked transition team questionnaire published by Bloomberg Thursday night.
19 Life-Saving Facts That Everyone Should Know
Just about everyone knows that you should never text and drive, and that you should stop, drop, and roll if you catch on fire. But life can also throw situations at us for which we don't have a quick, handy response.
Note to Breitbart: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Please Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans
Global warming is not expected to end anytime soon, despite what Breitbart.com wrote in an article published last week.
Physics has a dizzying array of subdisciplines. This short video breaks it down.
An 8-minute history of the giant field of physics. Physics can be defined simply as the study of matter and energy. But that simple definition covers an enormous range of topics.
Want to Raise Successful Kids? Science Says Praise Them Like This (but Most Parents Do the Opposite)
What if I were to tell you that you could increase the odds that your kids will achieve great success in life--maybe greater success than you've had--simply by making a small change in how you praise them and talk about achievement? It turns out, you can.
By drawing 50 ‘states’ according to income, study reveals ‘developing countries’ within the U.S.
The United States is one of the richest countries in the world, but it would look dramatically different if its 50 states were organized according to income instead of geography.
Economists agree: economic models underestimate climate change
It's fairly well-established at this point that there's a robust scientific consensus about the threat of climate change.
How Does ExxonMobil Attack Climate Science? Let Me Count the Ways
ExxonMobil currently scores at the bottom of the scale—“egregious”—on nearly every metric of involvement with climate disinformation.
Global Warming in the Arctic: A Sensitive Climate Gone Off the Rails
It is polar night in the Arctic—a darkness that lasts from early October to early March. Temperatures rarely escape freezing in that darkness, averaging -30° F until the light begins to return in spring. Right now, however, temperatures across much of the Arctic are 36 degrees F above normal.
Your Profoundly Disturbing Yet Hopeful Thanksgiving Reading List on Science and Democracy
The past two weeks have brought significant change and significant uncertainty about the future of science and democracy under a Trump administration.
Warning Signs Detected For Collapse Of Ancient Populations
A set of factors have been found that preceded population crashes in Europe thousands of years ago. If the peoples of the time had been aware of their significance, perhaps they could have taken evasive action.
'The Hare Psychopathy Checklist': The Test That Will Tell You If Someone Is A Sociopath
In August, Dr Kevin Dutton of Oxford University ranked US president-elect Donald Trump as "above Adolf Hitler" on a standard scale used to measure potential psychopathy in adults, according to the science news site Phys.org(Hillary Clinton scored pretty highly, too). That sounds like a cheap shot.
An astounding 102 million trees are now dead in California
Forest managers have never seen anything like it. Across California, an astounding 102 million trees have died over the past six years from drought and disease — including 62 million trees in 2016 alone, the US Forest Service estimates.
6 Surprising Downsides Of Being Extremely Intelligent
You might think life would be easier, happier, and infinitely more fulfilling if only you could rack up a few more IQ points. Users wrote about everything from the absurdly high expectations that people place on them to the trouble of constantly being perceived as a braggart.
The Arctic Is Currently An Astonishing THIRTY SIX DEGREES Warmer Than It Should Be
This October has seen anomalously warm weather in the Arctic, at a period of the year when it should be heading towards its coldest.
Climate Trumps Everything, No Matter Who Is President
Of all the potential actions in Donald Trump’s forthcoming presidency, none will have more long-lasting effects than those on climate change. Just four days after the Paris climate agreement went into force—the first comprehensive global deal to reduce heat-trapping pollution—the U.S.
Meet Myron Ebell, the Climate Contrarian Leading Trump’s EPA Transition
President Barack Obama has called climate change a threat to national security and to future generations. As president, he championed the Paris climate agreement, which aims to tackle global warming by committing more than 190 nations to reducing heat-trapping emissions over the coming decades.
Donald Trump's victory isn't the most terrifying news this week. There's something even worse
It is a vision of a future so apocalyptic that it is hard to even imagine. But, if leading scientists writing in one of the most respected academic journals are right, planet Earth could be on course for global warming of more than seven degrees Celsius within a lifetime.
President-Elect Trump Is An Existential Threat To America's Scientific Legacy
President-elect Trump. That will take some getting used to. A gut-wrenching event for an incredible range of unsettling reasons, it has to be highlighted that his election is also an existential threat to America’s scientific legacy.
Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition
Donald Trump has selected one of the best-known climate skeptics to lead his U.S. EPA transition team, according to two sources close to the campaign.
DISASTER: Trump Picks Climate Change Denier To Lead His EPA Team
The Republican President-elect just named Myron Ebell to head the campaign’s Environmental Protection Agency transition team.
Why Republicans Still Reject the Science of Global Warming
One day in 2009, Henry Waxman, the Democratic congressman representing Santa Monica and Malibu, paid a visit to one of his Republican counterparts, a ruddy-faced Texan named Joe Barton.
Science-Backed Ways To Build Confidence When You Feel Like You’re Out Of Your League
Whether you are interviewing for a job that feels beyond your current abilities, demonstrating a skill that feels rusty, or working with someone who is difficult and challenging, there are dozens of everyday challenges that can shake your confidence.
How do pain relievers work? - George Zaidan
All those different brands, varieties, and strengths filling the shelves at the drugstore can give anyone a headache! While there may be a hundred different colored boxes and bottles on the shelf, Alice (of Go Ask Alice fame) explains the four basic types of non-prescription pain-relievers.
Want to Raise Successful Daughters? Science Says Nag the Heck Out of Them
Someday, my daughter is going to kill me for this one, but it's a story that will vindicate parents everywhere.
Breaking the Climate Procrastination Habit: How to Bring on America the Sustainable
A boat lights the water surface as it passes by an iceberg in Jakobshavn Bay, Greenland. Scientists believe that Greenland, with its melting ice caps and disappearing glaciers, is an accurate thermometer of global warming. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
Think It’s Hot Now? Just Wait
July wasn’t just hot — it was the hottest month ever recorded, according to NASA. And this year is likely to be the hottest year on record. Fourteen of the 15 hottest years have occurred since 2000, as heat waves have become more frequent, more intense and longer lasting.
Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun
NORFOLK, Va. — Huge vertical rulers are sprouting beside low spots in the streets here, so people can judge if the tidal floods that increasingly inundate their roads are too deep to drive through. Five hundred miles down the Atlantic Coast, the only road to Tybee Island, Ga.
New Soft Robot is Completely Autonomous and Has No Electronics!
Researchers building soft robots have been hampered by finding alternatives for control systems and electric power for the robots. Circuit boards and batteries are rigid and previous models of soft robots have either had these hard components rigged, or have been tethered to an off-board system.
Your College Major Can Be a Pretty Good Indication of How Smart You Are
Conducted by psychologist Jonathan Wai from Duke University, the analysis used five different measures of academic aptitude across the past seven decades to find that STEM majors have been consistently out-scoring all other fields since 1946. With that said, on to the findings.
The Science of Happiness: Why complaining is literally killing you
Sometimes in life, all the experience and knowledge simmering around in that ol’ consciousness of ours combines itself in a way that suddenly causes the cerebral clockwork to click into place, and in this fluid flow of thought we find an epiphany rising to the surface.
Portland Will Still Be Cool, but Anchorage May Be the Place to Be
Alaskans, stay in Alaska. People in the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest, sit tight. Scientists trying to predict the consequences of climate change say that they see few havens from the storms, floods and droughts that are sure to intensify over the coming decades.
13 "Health" Foods You’re Better Off Avoiding
We're all familiar with them — foods we think are healthy because we heard them somewhere on the news or from a health-conscious friend. And no matter how much we may dislike them, we just keep buying them because we think they're good for us. Take swapping your dairy milk for almond milk.
Researchers Create Regenerative Tooth Fillings
Every year, dentists fill millions of cavities from teeth that have decayed. Ordinarily, this does its job in protecting the inner pulp from harm, but in around 10 percent of cases they fail.
Do YOU have the caffeine gene?
Our gene play a major role in how much we enjoy coffee - and how much we drink. Researchers have pinpointed the 'caffeine gene' that controls our reaction.
Can your biome make you fat?
Is there a correlation between your biome and your BMI? In her new book, Why Diets Make Us Fat, neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt sheds light on this tangled, cryptic relationship.
Unhealthy Fixation
Is genetically engineered food dangerous? Many people seem to think it is. In the past five years, companies have submitted more than 27,000 products to the Non-GMO Project, which certifies goods that are free of genetically modified organisms. Last year, sales of such products nearly tripled.
See Which Health Supplements Aren't Backed By Science
There are a lot of fad diets and articles out there that tell you which commonplace and obscure supplements you should be adding to your diet. But how do you discern the genuine from the bullsh*t?
The Real Reason More Women Don’t Code
I menstruate, and I code. I share this perhaps shocking personal information in the interest of full disclosure, and in solidarity with a new satirical campaign from Girls Who Code.
http://www.faithtap.com/6127/the-best-cross-country-route-according-to-science/
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Millennials love clean energy, fear climate change, and don’t vote. This campaign wants to change that.
Democrats and climate hawks share a dilemma, and that dilemma is millennials. Millennials — people born between 1980 and 2000, give or take, depending on your definition — are, in many ways, an incredibly attractive political target.
The 7 Reasons That Science Says You Should Pay For Experience, Not Things
Your big travel plans might seem like a waste of money. What will you come back with, besides some photos on your phone and a few memories. If you bought a TV with that money instead, you'd watch it every day.
Soviet-Era Treatment Could Be The New Weapon In The War Against Antibiotic Resistance
Every year an increasing number of health tourists are travelling to Eastern bloc countries to receive an old Soviet medical treatment, which could be the answer to the West’s crisis in antibiotics.
Your Musical Taste Depends On How Empathetic You Are
Do you care more for rules and order, or do you prefer thoughts and emotions? Depending on how you answer this, a group of psychologists at the University of Cambridge will tell you that this is linked to your taste in music.
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-men-and-women-sometimes-find-it-difficult-orgasm-according-science
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The Science Behind Smudging: What Really Happens When We Burn Sage
The practice of smudging dates back to prehistoric times, and is still very much in use today worldwide for cleansing everything from dwellings to human spirits.
Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against. And science has their back.
We live in a world that worships the early riser. Think of everything we’re told on the virtues of waking up early: The message is clear: Starting early is the way to get ahead; lateness is ugly as sin.
Top 10 Best Online Dating Sites of 2017
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The Science of Fat-Loss: Why a Calorie Isn't Always a Calorie
Calorie counting can work, but it’s often based on pseudo-science. I’ve examined before how people can lose 20+ lbs. of bodyfat — or gain 34 lbs.
Marty Kaplan on Why the Media Ignores Climate Change
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2016 Presidential Science, Tech, Health, and Environmental Forum
What are the top science, tech, health, and environmental questions the candidates for president should answer? In 1960 the world population was 3 billiion. Now it's more than 7 billion. In 1960 the US population was 180 million. Now it's more than 320 million.
Global Surface Temperature : NASA Global Climate Change
This graph illustrates the change in global surface temperature relative to 1951-1980 average temperatures. Nineteen of the warmest years have occurred since 2000, with the exception of 1998.
Here's another headline you should probably get used to reading: Warmest winter ever
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Tuesday that this was the warmest winter ever recorded for the 48 contiguous states in the 122 years records have been kept. Alaska had its second warmest winter. This followed the warmest fall ever for the contiguous states.
Here's What Happens To Alcoholics’ Brains When They Quit Drinking
Scientists investigating the role of dopamine in alcoholism have come up with some surprising evidence that may help to explain why addicts find it so difficult to stay away from booze.
Complaining Is Terrible for You, According to Science
Why do people complain? Not to torture others with their negativity, surely. When most of us indulge in a bit of a moan, the idea is to "vent." By getting our emotions out, we reason, we'll feel better. But science suggests there are a few serious flaws in that reasoning.
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-much-sex-makes-you-happy-once-week-according-science
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When climate deniers harass scientists, these guys come to the rescue
When climate change deniers attacked climatologist Michael Mann and tried to discredit him and his scientific work in 2011, making Mann's life a "living hell," the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund rose up to help him.
http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2016/01/marco-rubio-climate-change-florida?utm_content=buffer1aa14&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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In 50-49 vote, US Senate says climate change not caused by humans
WASHINGTON — The Senate rejected the scientific consensus that humans are causing climate change, days after NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared 2014 the hottest year ever recorded on Earth.
Exercise Does Not Necessarily Help With Weight Loss
We all know that in order to lose weight, we need to do more exercise to burn more calories, and eat controlled portions of the right foods. But it could be that too much of a good thing – in this case physical activity – might not be as advantageous as many had thought.
The Science Behind Baking the Most Delicious Cookie Ever
You like soft and chewy. He likes thin and crispy. If only there were a chocolate chip cookie recipe that pleased everyone… There is! And, no, it’s not Martha Stewart’s. It’s science.
'Case is made' for Anthropocene Epoch
There is little doubt now that we have entered a new geological age, believes an international scientific panel. The team, which has been tasked with defining the so-called Anthropocene, says humanity's impacts on Earth will be visible in sediments and rocks millions of years into the future.
The Physical Characteristics That Make Men More Attractive, According To Science
This video from Tech Insider reveals some of the physical characteristics that scientific studies suggest make men more attractive to women. Of course, take it with a pinch of salt.
America Has a Hidden Climate Denial Network and New Research Maps It Out
A view of the Grangemouth oil refinery on the Firth of Forth on November 17, 2009 in Grangemouth ,Scotland.
12 bad reasons for rejecting scientific studies
A few days ago, I posted what I thought was a fairly innocuous image (right) onto my blog’s Facebook page. I was, however, sadly mistaken.
Psychological Tricks You Can Use To Get People To Do Whatever You Want
Have you ever left a shop, a chat with a friend or a meeting at work and felt like you’ve somehow been duped? It's possible you might have been swayed or swindled by some subtle psychological impressions you weren’t consciously aware of.
Why Can’t We Fall Asleep?
This is the first piece in a three-part series on sleep. Read part two, on sleeping and dreaming, and part three, on wakefulness. Here’s what’s supposed to happen when you fall asleep.
Australian review finds no benefit to 17 natural therapies
Health care systems around the world are being pressured to “do more and spend less”, to make healthcare more cost effective.
The neuroscience of interrogation: Why torture doesn’t work
"Enhanced interrogation" may get someone to talk, but there's no evidence that it's the truth. A new book cross-examines the true consequences of torture “IF YOU torture the data long enough,” the saying goes, “it will confess to anything.
Right-Wing Media Deny Link Between Climate Change And Rise Of ISIL
Right-wing media are mocking Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley for stating that a severe drought linked to climate change created a "humanitarian crisis" in Syria leading to the rise of the jihadist organization known as ISIL (or ISIS).
The Science of Happiness: Why complaining is literally killing you.
Sometimes in life, all the experience and knowledge simmering around in that ol’ consciousness of ours combines itself in a way that suddenly causes the cerebral clockwork to click into place, and in this fluid flow of thought we find an epiphany rising to the surface.
Scientists Map Out The Awkwardness Of Physical Contact With Others
Scientists from the University of Oxford and Aalto University, Finland, have created “body maps” that show where we feel most uncomfortable getting touched by different people.
More antivaccine stylings from someone who is Dunning-Kruger personified
I was measured, science-based, and reasonable in yesterday's post about the new American Cancer Society guidelines for screening mammography (which is obviously why that post garnered so few comments, thus teaching me my lesson yet again0, but regular readers know that I can be quite obnoxious and s
The Relentless Attack on Climate Scientist Ben Santer
Dr. Benjamin D. Santer, who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for research supporting the finding that human activity contributes to global warming, is currently a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
A neuroscience researcher reveals 4 rituals that will make you happier
You get all kinds of happiness advice on the internet from people who don't know what they're talking about. Don't trust them. Actually, don't trust me either. Trust neuroscientists. They study that gray blob in your head all day and have learned a lot about what truly will make you happy.
Twenty Cognitive Biases That Could Be Helping You Make Bad Decisions
The human mind is a beautiful thing. Our ability to perceive, manage and express our individual experiences has been a huge reason for our success as a species. However, let’s not get too narcissistic.
Six Easy Ways To Tell If That Viral Story Is A Hoax
“And so it begins … ISIS flag among refugees in Germany fighting the police,” blared the headline on the Conservative Post; “with this new leaked picture, everything seems confirmed”.
9 Science-Backed Studying Tips
It’s probably no surprise to hear that panic-induced, all-night study sessions aren't actually the best way to prepare for an exam – but did you know it’s actually linked to the lowest test scores overall?
Digging into big coal's climate connections
Have you heard about the group that has abused open records laws to harass climate scientists across the United States? The organization behind North Carolina’s ban on using sea level science to inform coastal planning? The institution attacking renewable energy targets?
Every county in America, ranked by scenery and climate
Ventura County, Calif., is the absolute most desirable place to live in America. The index combines "six measures of climate, topography, and water area that reflect environmental qualities most people prefer." Those qualities, according to the U.S.
This is how your kid learns: The amazing new neuroscience of "brain plasticity" -- and how to make your child smarter
What happens to our child’s brain when we parent?
Naomi Oreskes: The Hoax of Climate Denial
This post first appeared at TomDispatch. Recently, the Washington Post reported new data showing something most of us already sense: that increased polarization on Capitol Hill is due to the way the Republican Party has lurched to the right.
The Science of Democracy: Are Humans Hard-Wired To Be Stupid Voters?
The next United States Presidential election is just under 16 months away, and already “silly-season” is in full force.
interest group - Types of interests and interest groups | political science
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When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job
This story was published in the August 2015 issue of Esquire. The incident was small, but Jason Box doesn't want to talk about it. He's been skittish about the media since it happened.
Conservatives Don't Deny Climate Science Because They're Ignorant. They Deny It Because of Who They Are.
For many years, the US National Science Foundation, more recently with the help of the General Social Survey, has asked the public the same true or false question about evolution: "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.
Scientists Discover Fundamental Property of Light – 150 Years After Maxwell
Light plays a vital role in our everyday lives and technologies based on light are all around us. So we might expect that our understanding of light is pretty settled.
Seven More Innovators, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs To Watch In Clean Tech
The developing world solar market is already a huge one, but it’s set to blow up like no other. There are so many innovative leaders in this space that I was hesitant to highlight any individuals. But I couldn’t help myself.
Seven New Genes Linked To Anxiety Disorders
Researchers have linked seven new genes to anxiety disorders such as obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder and social anxiety disorder. These gene links mean that new drug treatments could be created to target these gene products specifically in the treatment of anxiety disorders.
A Psychologist Explains Why People Don't Give a Shit About Climate Change
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced last month that the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere surpassed 400ppm for the first time in recorded history.
http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/where-our-soul-goes-when-we-dream-according-to-native-americans/
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The Science Of Why You Should Spend Your Money On Experiences, Not Things
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Freedom to Bully
However, the rights guaranteed by open records laws can be abused. As our 2015 report shows, open records requests are increasingly being used to harass and intimidate scientists and other academic researchers, or to disrupt and delay their work.
Scientists find key to 'turbo-charging' immune system to kill all cancers
In a breakthrough described as a ‘game-changer’ for cancer treatment, researchers at Imperial College found a previously unknown molecule which boosts the body’s ability to fight off chronic illnesses.
Bark Beetles Are Decimating Our Forests. That Might Actually Be a Good Thing.
They gobble up trees and send politicians into a frenzy. But do the bugs know more about climate change than we do?
The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science
How our brains fool us on climate, creationism, and the vaccine-autism link. "A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.
How data science and behavioral economics can work together
Near the end of Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman wrote, “Whatever else it produces, an organization is a factory that produces judgments and decisions.
21 GIFs That Explain Mathematical Concepts
“Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
19 Young Activists Changing America
A vibrant grass roots progressive movement is winning victories, raising awareness and changing lives in every part of the country, but you might not know that if your main source of information is mainstream media.
The Lethality of Loneliness
Sometime in the late ’50s, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann sat down to write an essay about a subject that had been mostly overlooked by other psychoanalysts up to that point. Even Freud had only touched on it in passing.
The 10 Stuff-Ups We All Make When Interpreting Research
UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do we actually mean by research and how does it help inform our understanding of things? Understanding what’s being said in any new research can be challenging and there are some common mistakes that people make.
What Every Man Should Know About Sleep
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Can Climate Change Unite the Left?
This essay first appeared at In These Times, and was adapted from This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein.
10 Science Jokes for Nerds
How Many Will You Get? 1. I’m reading a great book on anti-gravity. I can’t put it down.
Climate Change is Every Mothers Fight
Imagine the place you call “home” is in danger of disappearing. You don’t know when it will happen, but you know how and why. For many people around the world this fear of losing their homes in the not-too-distant future is a constant worry.
One injection stops diabetes in its tracks: Treatment reverses symptoms of type 2 diabetes in mice without side effects
In mice with diet-induced diabetes -- the equivalent of type 2 diabetes in humans -- a single injection of the protein FGF1 is enough to restore blood sugar levels to a healthy range for more than two days.
http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/how-long-to-nap-for-the-biggest-brain-benefits/
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Five myths about the chemicals you breathe, eat and drink
All too often the use of the word “chemicals” in the news, in advertising and in common usage has the implication that they are bad. You never hear about chemicals that fight infections, help crops grow or lubricate engines.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2014/02/internet_troll_personality_study_machiavellianism_narcissism_psychopathy.html
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Aging of Brain and Muscles Reversed Through Protein Therapy
As we age, our muscles and brain don’t retain their qualities that they did during youth. However, a recent study has shown that protein therapy can help restore muscles and brains to their former glory through therapy with the protein growth differentiation factor 11 (GDF 11).
James Lovelock: we should give up on saving the planet – video
James Lovelock has spent his career in science defying the mainstream, with startling results.
8 Ancient Beliefs Now Backed By Modern Science
The Earth may not be flat nor is it the center of the universe, but that doesn't mean old-world intellectuals got everything wrong.
What We Know
What We Know The scientists agree. The climate is changing, it’s caused by human behavior, and the risks ahead are real. Learn about the consensus. What We Know Based on the evidence, about 97% of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is happening.
Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt
Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions. Get the New Statesman's Morning Call email.
10 Scientifically Proven Ways To Be A Good Spouse
I study romantic relationships. I'm also engaged. So, of course, I've given a tremendous amount of thought as to what it really means for my partner and I to marry one another.
Here's How To Have A Happy Relationship, According To Science (INFOGRAPHIC)
Scientists spend a lot of time figuring out what makes people happy, especially when it comes to love and relationships. Thanks to the folks at Happify -- a website dedicated to the science of happiness -- all that wonderful scientific mumbo-jumbo has been distilled into an infographic.
Theories of Small Group Communication
Theories influence the way we think, interpret our world, and the actions we take. We develop theories about our environment to help organize and interpret our experiences.