Tag: chemistry

July 7, 2015 0

Ezra Kleinian hippie-distancing

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Tweet A version of something I wrote on email struck a chord with some folks regarding the assertion "GMOs are safe": The term "safe" should be bifurcated into "safe for human health" and "safe for the general environment".

June 15, 2015 0

The Four Pests Campaign

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Tweet Nononono, not Roger Pielke Jr, Bjorn Lomborg, Willard Anthony Watts, or Matt King Coal Ridley. Recently as steam has run out on "Coal for Africa" with the falling prices of renewables making them the power source of choice in the third world, especially the rural third world, we have, courtesy of the Breakthrough Institute, Ecomodernism , which, according to the manifestoso In this, we affirm one long-standing environmental ideal, that humanity must shrink its impacts on the environment to make more room for nature, while we reject another, that human societies must harmonize with nature to avoid economic and ecological collapse

June 12, 2015 0

Note to the Observent

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Tweet Bunnies may notice that the tag line above has been changed and the give to save the Keeling curve link removed.  There are two reasons for this. First, thanks in part to you, maybe a little to Eli, funding for the Scripps program has been saved.