Posts by: Zachary Shahan
For all those who would like to know if they’re eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or not, or what like to avoid it, there’s some exciting news in Vermont. “Eleven state representatives in Vermont have submitted legislation to require labeling of genetically modified organisms,” Heather Carr of sister site Eat Drink [...]
“If You Thought is Was Hot Last Summer…”
That’s the title of a post on Climate Central by Andrew Freedman and I can’t do better, so I’m reusing it. The post, on a new study published in the journal Climatic Change, finds that odds of unusually hot summers has already increased in [...]
Yep, this is one of the effects of global warming we can expect to see more and more of. Global warming causes drought. And drought kills plants, animals, and humans.
Texas has seen record-breaking drought in the past year. That has far-reaching implications for not only Texas, [...]
Over on sister site Eat Drink Better, Heather Carr recently reviewed The Home Orchard: A Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Fruit Trees Anywhere, which she said “really is a complete guide to growing your own fruit trees anywhere.” Sounds good! Here’s more from Heather:
The book starts with the basics: space, [...]
The Heartland Institute is in the midst of a huge controversy (or, a few, to be honest). If you’re not familiar with the institute, it’s been one of the leading “think” tanks denying the harmful health effects of smoking and, now, second-hand smoking. Yep, it’s classy. It’s also been one [...]
Joe Romm is, for many reasons, considered the world’s best blogger on climate science, and politics related to it. In the midst of the crazy Heartland Institute leak and the many, many implications from that, Romm does one of the best jobs I’ve seen of putting this whole story [...]
As I’ve noted in two posts so far, the Heartland Institute’s complete hypocrisy in the midst of its own documents being leaked is hard not to notice. Well, I think Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund have made that crystal clear by flipping a Heartland press release [...]
Peter Gleick, a water and climate analyst, has revealed that he was the individual who solicited Heartland Institute board documents and leaked them to key sites covering global warming.
Gleick received the “Climate Strategy” first from an anonymous individual, and, to confirm the contents of it, solicited the board documents under [...]
I love this video. Somehow, I didn’t get to publishing on it when it first came out. If you haven’t seen it yet, though, be sure to check it out—it provides a great explanation of how greenhouse gases are like steroids for the climate… they don’t make every day a record-hot day, but they increase [...]
The Heartland Institute has been totally hypocritical when it comes to the leaking of some of its internal documents compared to the false scandal known as climategate. The hypocrisy jumped out at me again this week when reading another release from the conservative ‘think tank’ and threats [...]
David Brin recently illuminated how our declining economy is directly tied to our declining science base over on sister site Red, Green, and Blue (I’d also add that our declining sense of reality is also tied to that declining science base). However, Brin’s piece is actually a piggy-back on this awesome video of Neil [...]
If you’ve seen the beautiful movie Fly Away Home, this might really bring out some sentimental feelings… and the picture above might remind you of something. But the story here is slightly different.
Operation Migration is an effort to conserve migratory bird species through innovative ways and [...]
I’ll admit it, I love numbers. And I love bicycling, as you know. So, running across this recent statistic on one of the sites I used to write for, Earth & Industry, brought a little light to my face.
Here’s more from Alison Leahy on San Francisco’s bicycle ridership [...]
100-year-old Robert Marchand has set a world cycling record for a one-hour event by cycling 24.251 kilometers around an indoor track in Aigle, Switzerland.
“I could have gone faster but I didn’t want to,” Marchand said. Naturally.
“I’m not playing at being a champion,” he said. “I just wanted to do [...]
ExxonMobil either slipped up big time recently by not reporting approximately 30,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its Scottish Fife Ethylene Plant. As a result, the oil giant has been hit with a record €3.3-million fine (€3,296,600 to be exact).
The fine came from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
“An Exxon spokesman told BusinessGreen the [...]
That’s the first line to a truly excellent piece on New Statesman that I ran across last week. The piece is hilarious, insightful, and will hopefully help a bit to bring some sense to the countless individuals confused by Delingpole’s drivel. Here are the first two paragraphs of the piece:
I’m [...]
