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The Federal Trade Commission proposed guidelines to address greenwashing. It's a worthy effort, but they should go beyond greenwashing and tackle green fraud
The roomies jackhammer up concrete to make way for a garden. See what happens when that freshly-tilled urban soil meets a rainy summer and feral cats.
A lot of people also seem to think that rockets punching holes in the ozone increases global warming. No kidding.
This week we've gotten a glimpse at EPA's plans for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from "stationary sources" (power plants, factories, etc.).
It's a common assumption about energy that fossil fuels like coal are "concentrated"� and renewable sources are "diffuse." But it's not true.
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.
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.
The cost of French feed-in tariffs for renewable energy over and above the cost of conventional fuels was negative in 2008.
You might reasonably think that the number of bicycle crashes would skyrocket as more people take to the streets on two wheels. It's a fine, common-sense assumption -- that happens to be wrong.
