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David Suzuki: Bean leaves, bedbugs and biomimicry

David Suzuki: Bean leaves, bedbugs and biomimicry

Tweet Before the manufacture of dangerous pesticides, Dr David Suzuki reminds us, our forebears relied on Mother Nature to solve problems like bed bugs. SCIENTISTS OFTEN come up with new discoveries, technologies or theories. But sometimes...

 

Study finds 97% scientific consensus on global warming

Study finds 97% scientific consensus on global warming

Tweet Skeptical Science Study Finds 97% Consensus on Human-Caused Global Warming in the Peer-Reviewed Literature (via Skeptical Science) Posted on 16 May 2013 by dana1981, John Cook A new survey of over 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science...

 

Rod Quantock: global warming’s just not funny

Rod Quantock: global warming’s just not funny

Tweet Activist comedian, Rod Quantock, promises you’ll be “apoplectic with fear” (or just plain “scared shitless”) as he takes you with him through the gates of hell into the catastrophic world of runaway global...

 

Nuclear energy isn’t the answer to global warming

Nuclear energy isn’t the answer to global warming

Tweet While nuclear energy has no direct carbon footprint, it is still a contributor to global warming; we know this, because Einstein tells us so. Guy Lane explains. Cooling towers at a nuclear power plant. Nuclear energy produces vast amounts...

 

Heat on deniers as PAGES confirms hockey stick

Heat on deniers as PAGES confirms hockey stick

Tweet Major PAGES 2k Network Paper Confirms the Hockey Stick (via Skeptical Science) PAGES (Past Global Changes) is a scientific network which supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions...

 

Anti-wind farm lobby claims break all laws of physics

Anti-wind farm lobby claims break all laws of physics

Tweet The case of the increasingly vocal lobby groups against wind farms in populated areas is based on the idea that widely accepted scientific principles are wrong. Stephen Luntz busts the myths. ONE OF the first questions science writers...

 

Two years after Fukushima: a tale of two symposiums

Two years after Fukushima: a tale of two symposiums

Tweet With news today that Fukushima has sprung another radioactive leak, Noel Wauchope reports on two very different nuclear symposiums held last month. The Japanese public have fallen out of love with nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster...

 

Climate Commission: Extreme weather threatens Australia

Climate Commission: Extreme weather threatens Australia

Tweet Extreme weather caused by global warming poses a growing risk to Australia’s crop lands, cities and iconic sites, according to a new report, writes Sunanda Creagh from The Conversation. EXTREME WEATHER caused by global warming poses...

 

Beyond Kyoto: The future of coal

Beyond Kyoto: The future of coal

Tweet What does moving to a low carbon economy mean for the future of coal-generated power? Environmental lawyer and scientist Dr Ted Christie considers this crucial question. THE KYOTO PROTOCOL was adopted in 1997 as a global approach for...

 

The IPA’s plans to abolish climate change action in Australia

The IPA’s plans to abolish climate change action in Australia

Tweet Climate Denial Think Tank’s Plans To Abolish Climate Change Departments in Australia (via Desmogblog) A LEADING Australian free-market think tank with close ties to the country’s conservative Liberal Party has revealed its...

 
 
 
 

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