A surprisingly high amount of geothermal heating has been measured underneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz.…
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HOW THE STATES RANK IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE SCALE OF 1 (BEST) TO 10 (WORST) GROUP 1 Montana + Adequate water ++…
A new review analyzing three decades of research on the historic effects of melting polar ice sheets found that global sea levels have risen at…
Our age has no shortage of curious features, but for me, at least, one of the oddest is the way that so many people these…
Will activism once again turn the tide in the political battle for GMO transparency? Following millions of concerned individuals speaking out over Monsanto’s monopoly of…
During my desultory post-graduation years in San Francisco, I lived in a big duplex with three roommates. We had bands, fledging writing gigs and other…
Climate engineering is a completely runaway juggernaut of total insanity. The planet’s climate system is unraveling by the day as the geoengineers try frantically to control…
Thomas Scheff would like psychologists to talk about emotion -- not simply to share feelings, but to advance science. According to the emeritus professor of…
The debate over climate change has long focused on determining attribution—whether rising greenhouse gases and global warming caused a particular storm, drought, flood, or blizzard.…
A New York Times article entitled “Championing Environment, Francis Takes Aim at Global Capitalism” quotes a conventional Harvard economist, Robert N. Stavins. Stavins is enraged by Pope Francis’…
In a brief article in an unassuming 1967 edition of Science, a medieval historian from the University of California argued a now infamous thesis in my own field…
We are in the middle of the first great mass extinction since the end of the age of the dinosaurs. That's the conclusion of a shocking…