Are You Biased Against Nuclear Power? Yup, Say Scientists
Nuclear power has a worse reputation than it deserves.
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Gail Tverberg: The True Feasibility of Moving Away from Fossil Fuels
Why our societies will remain dependent on fossil fuels much longer than we’d like.
Read more...Right to Repair Initiatives Gain Support in US
Minnesota may soon be the first state to adopt right to repair legislation, and measures are pending in a total of twenty states. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently endorsed a national right to repair for farm equipment.
Read more...Climate Research Must Change to Help Communities Plan for the Future
Climate scientist Robert Koop argues for national investment in universities analogous to that of long-standing cooperative extension programs but applied to scientific climate risk management.
Read more...Plastic Watch: 2.5 Trillion Dollar Annual Cost of Ocean Plastic Pollution
New study finds ocean plastic pollution costs $2.5 trillion dollars annually – and that estimate fails to account for direct and indirect impacts on human health, or the fisheries, transport, and tourism industries.
Read more...How American Recycling Is Changing Now that China Won’t Take It
The US recycling approach of using the rest of the world as it garbage barge has come to an end. What next?
Read more...More on Flood Control: The Missouri River, the Levees, and the Gavins Point and Spencer Dams
The policy options to solve or ameliorate flooding on the Missouri River are not obvious (at least to me).
Read more...A New Constitution for the UK Needs ‘Rights of Nature’ at Its Heart
Human rights are well established in constitutional and international law. But in the face of dangerous climate change and ecosystem collapse, do we need ‘rights of nature’?
Read more...The New Deal, the Green New Deal, and Flood Control
Review of the Midwest flooding, history of the New Deal and flood control, and the Green New Deal and flood control.
Read more...Fed Official: Climate Change is an ‘International Market Failure’
A report from the U.S. central bank cautions that rising temperatures and extreme storms could eventually trigger a financial collapse.
Read more...The Problem With the ‘Warm’ in Global Warming: Most Like it Hot
“Warm” is not scary. That’s a problem.
Read more...Clean Water: UNICEF Shows More Children Die from Diarrhea than Direct Violence in Conflict Zones
Unicef reports diarrhea causes more childhood deaths in conflict zones than outright violence. Bangladesh’s recent history shows even the poorest countries can reduce fatalities from diarrheal disease.
Read more...Second Roundup Decision: Jury Finds Weedkiller a “Substantial Cause” of Plantiff’s Cancer
A San Francisco jury found last Tuesday that Roundup – the glyphosate-based weedkiller – was “a substantial cause “ of the plaintiff Edwin Hardeman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, in the first of a three-stage process, which focused only on scientific evidence.
Read more...Five Ways to Talk to Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun Too)
Climate change is a tough topic to present to children. Some ideas.
Read more...U.S. ‘’Oil Weapon’’ Could Change Geopolitics Forever
Oil production as a source of political advantage will no doubt keep official US climate change denialism alive and well.
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