Sanity has not perished from the earth, or even from the United States Supreme Court. Yes, it’s an endangered species, but it shows up every once in a while. The big questions: can it survive, can it regrow, can it thrive? One sighting of sanity occurred today when SCOTUS ruled, unanimously, that a piece of […]
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The latest red tide outbreak on Florida’s Gulf Coast, with its awful stench, is in its 11th straight month. The noxious bloom started in November 2017, and the latest reports from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission before Hurricane Michael, whose effects we won’t know for some time, showed that the end was not
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Environmental problems have become part of our everyday lives. There isn’t a news website homepage that does not highlight news related to our environment, and environmental issues have become central themes of major elections. But we have reached a point where we no longer understand the role of man in the environment around us. What
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“If you won’t play my way, I’m going to take my ball and go home!” One expects such behavior from 7-year-olds. Not from grownups. But that’s the behavior of 60 scientists, journalists, politicians, activists, and others who signed an open letter published in the (dependably sympathetic) Guardian Sunday saying, “we will no longer debate those who deny that human-caused
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Environmental scientist and activist James Conca, writing in Forbes, reports on a study by an organization called Eco Experts that these are the world’s 10 most polluted cities: I knew the instant I saw Paris and Los Angeles as numbers 9 and 10 that there must be something terribly wrong with the methodology of whatever “study”
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Now that jurors in a San Francisco court have awarded a man $289 million in damages in his lawsuit against Monsanto (and its parent company Bayer) claiming that his exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller gave him cancer, some people wonder whether the Cornwall Alliance will reverse its view that Roundup (the brand name for the
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YouTube’s recent move to flag videos that do not align with the company’s beliefs is a shocker to many viewers. This is no small move. YouTube is setting a dangerous precedent for other social media platforms, which may soon espouse this anti-science attitude. Recently, YouTube decided to post a banner beneath videos that questioned the consensus on
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Are there bigger environmental concerns than Climate Change? Certainly. But we don’t hear that from our daily news anchors and bulletins. Why are we obsessed with climate change? Not long ago, our interests were limited only to weather. But in recent decades, climate change has dominated our news columns. There is not a day without
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Fake news, and any interesting news, can spread like wildfire. Unfortunately, recent wildfires in Greece generated more fake news. It has now become popular to blame every natural disaster on global warming. Here I try to explain why this attitude is wrong and can sometimes even impede our scientific progress. Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW)
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Have mathematical models replaced good old-fashioned scientific testing? An understanding of the big picture in a field of study helps to frame and give essential perspective to that field. Take the field of natural science for instance. A big-picture look at the overall operation of the natural science profession has traditionally been seen in the
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