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Scientists Stand Up To Congressional Attacks
2016-06-04 09:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: To the surprise of no one, Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is continuing his unfounded attack on science, ratcheting it up even higher than before. This time, he's trying to tie up the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). The good news? They're having none of it. OK, let's get you caught up first. Smith is the head of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and is also a 100 percent head-in-the-sand climate change denier, as well as a conspiracy theorist. A list of his nonsensical claims...
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1,500 scientists speak out on sciences reproducibility crisis
2016-06-03 20:34:22| Extremetech
Nature polled bench scientists to find out what they thought about the much-discussed crisis of reproducibility in published scientific reports. What does it take to stop the sale of snake oil?
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Clean fuel from 'bionic leaf' could ease pressure on farmland: scientists
2016-06-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A new clean technology to turn sunlight into liquid fuel could drastically shrink the need for large plantations to grow crops for biofuels, while combating climate change, Harvard University researchers said on Thursday. That could help protect food supplies and local people's land rights, they suggested. Dubbed "bionic leaf 2.0", the technology uses solar panels to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, the scientists said in a study published in the journal Science. Once separated,...
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Among climate scientists, a fraught debate on the path forward
2016-06-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EENews: Clinton Nuclear Generating Station in Clinton, Ill., the focus of a recent effort to save the state's nuclear power. Photo by Daniel Schwen, courtesy of Wikipedia. In a rented 15-passenger van barreling south on Interstate 55 out of Chicago in April, a group of environmental activists, a legendary scientist and a camera crew embarked on a quixotic rescue effort. Their goal: saving Illinois nukes. "We shouldn't be taking them off the table, in my opinion," said James Hansen, a former scientist...
Coral sanctuary now a 'graveyard' due to record warm oceans, scientists find
2016-06-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Scientists on an expedition to Jarvis Island in the Pacific Remote Island Marine National Monument have found devastating loss of corals due to record warm ocean temperatures from April 2015 to May 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Wednesday. Jarvis is an unpopulated island about 1,500 miles south of Honolulu, and it is typically a treasure trove of biological diversity. According to NOAA, the area has the highest fish biomass, which measures the total amount...
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