Daily Archives: April 11, 2012

Originally posted on JunkScience.com:
In an announcement that stunned scientists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has cancelled grant applications for what was supposed to be a $20-million, four-year green chemistry program. The mysterious cancellation, announced on Friday, came less…

Originally posted on JunkScience.com:
All bets are off for the future of energy in the United States and, indeed, the world, as the price of natural gas plummets to ever-lower values — thanks to the development of technology that…

Big Picture News, Informed Analysis The World Wildlife Fund’s first corporate sponsor was Shell oil – which continued to fund it for the next four decades. Remember the headline in The Independent that pointed an accusing finger: Think-tanks take oil … Continue reading →

Monty – Needs to debate the work presented here …not the venue chosen. An attempt at pea shuffling seems to be all he can offer…much like his posts on such as Deltoid. He consistently says such as, “I think who … Continue reading →

Originally posted on JunkScience.com:
A wise tutor once told me that if something is written down in a scientific textbook it is probably true, but if it is published in a journal then put it on probation. It was…

Watts Up With That? Guest post by Michael Pacnik Especially in the context of recent discussion of the Shakun et al. paper, a look at other sources for temperature history versus CO2 can be helpful, examining timescales ranging from the … Continue reading →

Originally posted on JunkScience.com:
While campaigning in San Francisco in early 2008 during the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama got a little too candid. “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can,” he opined to the San…