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Romney, Obama fiddle while the planet burns
September 9, 2012 0

Romney, Obama fiddle while the planet burns

By News Desk

Romney, Obama fiddle while the planet burns The Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) posted a depressing piece on Friday Sept. 7, about Obama and Romney. While the airwaves are full of advertisements about the differences between them, they have one thing in common: Both are "playing games with environmental disaster." Daphne Wysham, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, says that Obama," — like his Republican opponent — seems to place a higher value on achieving ‘energy independence’ via expanded oil and gas drilling than on action on climate change

Denialists denied by judge in New Zealand lawsuit
September 8, 2012 0

Denialists denied by judge in New Zealand lawsuit

By News Desk

Denialists denied by judge in New Zealand lawsuit Via John Mashey, there’s a blog post by Gareth on yet another attempt by climate denialists to muddy the record on climate change, this time by suing New Zealand’s National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research for publishing a temperature record that shows New Zealand warming up over the last century.

Arsenic and Odd Life
September 8, 2012 0

Arsenic and Odd Life

By News Desk

Arsenic and Odd Life From Boing Boing , but Eli sorta remembers seeing it elsewhere.  Thee and Eli sorta remember the cold fusion follies, with a refresher course recently when Martin Fleischmann passed on to the great calorimeter in the sky, but all the bunnies know that politicians have too much to do to bother their pretty minds staying up on the state of the science, and Mitt has the added burden of being from Utah with all the native pride that that entails,  Now some, not Eli to be sure, would make a connection between what Romney said in a Washington Examiner interview (the other right wing rag in town the Washington Times is on critical life support with the passing of the Rev. Moon) and others surely might note that the remaining true believers believe themselves victims of a conspiracy.

Meta Lewandowsky
September 7, 2012 0

Meta Lewandowsky

By News Desk

Yes, of course. That wasn’t a left/right thing.For what it’s worth:1) NUCLEAR: (science) some people think there is zero danger from radiation (including a particular board member of Sandia) while others cringe from the very word radiation, without knowing much about different forms, background levels, radon in homes, polonium in cigarettes, x-rays, etc