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John Boehner, the Ohio Republican, who once said that "the idea that carbon dioxide ... is harmful to our environment is almost comical" is the new Speaker of the House.
A massive fall harvest at Maverick Farms a few years back forced me to combine butternut squash, leafy greens, and garlic into one satisfying bowl.
A lot of people also seem to think that rockets punching holes in the ozone increases global warming. No kidding.
The cost of French feed-in tariffs for renewable energy over and above the cost of conventional fuels was negative in 2008.
This week we've gotten a glimpse at EPA's plans for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from "stationary sources" (power plants, factories, etc.).
What would happen if we never ate another fish? Fisheries researcher Ray Hilborn thinks that shift could only lead to more rainforests succumbing to the plow to fill the world's growling bellies, and that there really are plenty of fish in the sea to do that instead.
It's a common assumption about energy that fossil fuels like coal are "concentrated"� and renewable sources are "diffuse." But it's not true.
A new survey quizzed people on what steps make the biggest difference in saving energy and found loads of confusion.
Dr. Judith Curry likes "climate hawks" because she thinks it will help detach climate science from climate politics. Unfortunately, as long as one political party chooses to deny basic scientific facts, telling the truth is inherently political.
