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The key to nuclear's future or an element of doubt?
2014-10-13 13:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Behind thick glass in a laboratory nestled in French woodland, a silvery molten metal swirls like a liquid mirror. But the material is no mere novelty; as dangerous as it is captivating, it could offer a solution to the nuclear power debate. For sodium, the sixth-most abundant element on the planet, is being held up as the key to one of several new types of nuclear reactor being developed as governments grapple with the problem of making atomic energy more environmentally friendly, safe and financially...
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Merchants of Doubt Author Slams "Corrosive" Climate Change Skepticism
2014-10-06 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Historian of science Naomi Oreskes, now at Harvard, first came to my attention 20 years ago, when she and two co-authors argued in Science that "verification and validation of numerical models of natural systems is impossible." In The End of Science, I cited the Oreskes et al. paper when I challenged the claim that computers will revolutionize research into so-called complex systems. "The tobacco industry was way ahead of the postmodernists," says Naomi Oreskes, co-author of Merchants of Doubt,...
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Federal officials cast doubt on Ebola travel ban
2014-10-06 07:56:02| Biotech - Topix.net
In this photo provided by CBS News, the National Institute of Health's Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, speaks on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Speaking on the Ebola virus, Fauci said it's perfectly normal to feel anxious about a disease that kills so fast and is ravaging parts of West Africa, but predicts there won't be an outbreak in the U.S. The Associated Press In this photo provided by CBS News, the National Institute of Health's Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, speaks on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington.
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Doubt climate change? Then support carbon taxes
2014-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Taxing greenhouse gases is a policy that deserves serious consideration -- the kind of consideration it just isn't getting in the U.S. The approach makes sense in theory and, where it has been tried, has worked in practice. The record shows that a well-designed carbon tax can cut harmful emissions in the most economically efficient way: by letting market forces coordinate the effort. Fears that a carbon tax set high enough to make any difference would harm the economy are contradicted by the evidence;...
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Future Of The National Beef Checkoff Remains In Doubt
2014-08-21 16:53:00| Beef
What's ahead for the national beef checkoff? A draft report from the Beef Checkoff Enhancement Working Group suggests revising the system so more contractors can be involved and increasing the producer contribution to $2. My View From The Country read more
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