Tag: global warming
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How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming
Scientific American: How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming Nuclear power is one of the few technologies that can quickly combat climate change, experts argue. … Indeed, he has evidence: the speediest drop in greenhouse gas pollution on record occurred in France in the 1970s and '80s, when that country transitioned from burning fossil fuels…
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Thoughts on the “The Limits to Panic”
Forty-one years after the publication of the infamous Limits to Growth, Bjorn Lomborg offers this excellent piece, The Limits to Panic: … But the report's fundamental legacy remains: we have inherited a tendency to obsess over misguided remedies for largely trivial problems, while often ignoring big problems and sensible remedies. In the early 1970's, the…
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Global warming: Apocalypse perhaps a little later
Economist: Global warming: Apocalypse perhaps a little later Climate change may be happening more slowly than scientists thought. But the world still needs to deal with it. IT MAY come as a surprise to a walrus wondering where all the Arctic's summer sea ice has gone. It could be news to a Staten Islander still…
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Ancient flood path triggered Big Freeze
TG Daily: Ancient flood path triggered Big Freeze After 30 years of debate, scientists believe they've discovered the trigger for the last great freeze of the Earth, some 12,900 years ago. They say they've established that the flood waters from the melting of the enormous Laurentide Ice Sheet flowed northwest into the Arctic first, weakening…
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Why Are Environmentalists Taking Anti-Science Positions?
Environment360: Why Are Environmentalists Taking Anti-Science Positions? On issues ranging from genetically modified crops to nuclear power, environmentalists are increasingly refusing to listen to scientific arguments that challenge standard green positions. This approach risks weakening the environmental movement and empowering climate contrarians. From Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to James Hansen's modern-day tales of climate apocalypse,…
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Obama, Romney ignore climate change, but so do voters (+video)
Christian Science Monitor: Obama, Romney ignore climate change, but so do voters (+video) Energy and green energy were hot topics during the presidential debates, but climate change didn't come up once. The candidates may be avoiding the issue because voters don't want to hear a difficult message. … "National elections should be a time when…
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Bjorn Lomborg on Scaring People Into Action
Project Syndicate: Bjorn Lomborg on Scaring People Into Action PRAGUE – Campaigners on important but complex issues, annoyed by the length of time required for public deliberations, often react by exaggerating their claims, hoping to force a single solution to the forefront of public debate. But, however well intentioned, scaring the public into a predetermined…
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On Humans Transforming Natural Environments
I'm a little slow catching up on all my reading, and I just came across this post by David Opderbeck where he is reviewing Fred Bahnson and Norman Wirzba's Making Peace With the Land: God's Call to Reconcile With Creation. I particularly liked the following: … A big emphasis for sustainable agriculture of the sort…