Are Scientists Confusing the Public About Global Warming? : Blog : Climate Central. Are Scientists Confusing the Public About Global Warming? Published: January 18th, 2011 in Responses, Climate, Policy, Energy, Society, United States, US National Share Print Permalink RSS ShareClose Print Twitter Facebook Digg Direct link to this post: SEND AS AN EMAIL: Your email address: arange@climatecentral.org Recipient’s email address: Message: By Nicole Heller Credit: istock “Do you believe in global warming?” I assure you no one in the earth science community is … more
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The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value – Harvard Business Review
The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value – Harvard Business Review. The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business increasingly has been viewed as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies are widely perceived to be prospering at the expense of the broader community. Even worse, the more business has begun to embrace corporate responsibility, the more it has … more
Climate Science? There’s an App For That : Blog : Climate Central
Climate Science? There’s an App For That : Blog : Climate Central. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px; font: 26.0px Helvetica; color: #333233} Climate Science? There’s an App For That Published: January 11th, 2011 in Policy, Weather, Extreme Weather, Society, United States Share Print Permalink RSS ShareClose Print Twitter Facebook Digg Direct link to this post: SEND AS AN EMAIL: Your email address: Recipient’s email address: Message: By Alana Range The Skeptical Science app allows you to engage in the … more
Correcting 10 Common Misconceptions about California’s Cap-and-Trade Program | Kristin Eberhard’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC
Correcting 10 Common Misconceptions about California’s Cap-and-Trade Program | Kristin Eberhard’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC. Posted January 10, 2011 in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming Tags: ab32, california, climatechange, globalwarming Share| | In the aftermath of the California Air Resources Board’s historic vote to adopt the nation’s first-of-its kind program to cap global warming pollution across California’s economy, understandably there are questions about what the program will accomplish and how it will get us there. Below, I will attempt to … more
Beyond the Eternal Food Fight – NYTimes.com
Beyond the Eternal Food Fight – NYTimes.com. January 10, 2011, 9:54 AM Beyond the Eternal Food Fight By ANDREW C. REVKIN The New York TimesAn index of world food prices. Click for the full graph and caption. 10:13 a.m. | Updated Almost every time global prices surge and the media and public reach out to analysts for meaning, a decades-long food fight resumes. The latest price surge is clearcut, bringing food costs up to or past peaks reached in 2008. With populations … more
Climate of Hate – NYTimes.com
Climate of Hate – NYTimes.com. OP-ED COLUMNIST Climate of Hate By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: January 9, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER COMMENTS (214) E-MAIL SEND TO PHONE PRINT REPRINTS SHARE When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen? Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Paul Krugman Go to Columnist Page » Blog: The Conscience of a Liberal Related Evidence Points to Methodical … more
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science – Magazine – The Atlantic
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science – Magazine – The Atlantic. The Atlantic Home WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2011 GO FOLLOW THE ATLANTIC » Politics Business Culture International Technology National Food Magazine video BRAVE THINKERSNOVEMBER 2010 ATLANTIC MAGAZINE SHARE EMAIL PRINT Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? … more
The Decline Effect and the Scientific Method : The New Yorker
The Decline Effect and the Scientific Method : The New Yorker. Skip to content subscribe to the new yorker Subscribe New Yorker magazine articles Blogs Audio & Video Reviews of New York events: Goings on About Town New Yorker Cartoons New Yorker Topics Complete New Yorker Archives and Digital Edition THE NEW YORKER REPORTING & ESSAYS ANNALS OF SCIENCE THE TRUTH WEARS OFF Is there something wrong with the scientific method? by Jonah LehrerDECEMBER 13, … more
Special Edible: Taking the Leap: An Inspiring 2010
Special Edible: Taking the Leap: An Inspiring 2010. powered by From Big Sur’s killer cliff-clinging eateries to Salinas’ unparalleled produce, this blog aims to sniff out all things Monterey County can stomach, via picture and prose, curiosity and appetite, hand and mouth. MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 2011 Taking the Leap: An Inspiring 2010 The apparently sauced knucklehead in theJimmy Buffet t-shirt jumping offBixby Bridgein front of an objectingCHPofficer has to rank among the most striking single … more
The Catastrophist
The Catastrophist. The New Yorker June 29, 2009 The Catastrophist NASA’s climate expert delivers the news no one wants to hear. By Elizabeth Colbert A few months ago, James Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in Manhattan, took a day off from work to join a protest in Washington, D.C. The immediate target of the protest was the Capitol Power Plant, which supplies steam and chilled water to congressional offices, but … more