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Last week I posted on the “Misunderstood Meanings of Science Literacy,” noting that scientists, policymakers, and journalists tend to narrowly focus on the recall of facts about science as the […]

As disappointing as this week’s State of the Union address might have been to many climate change advocates, in today’s Washington Post, Peter Baker and Steven Mufson have a revealing […]

"Until we find the collective will, the drive for national economic security will continue to lead to collective insecurity." A finance professor discusses the eventual downside of coveting resources.

I, for all intensive purposes, am a Libertarian. The Libertarian Party is running Bob Barr as a candidate for President. Living in California, I also happen to believe that my […]

If we’re being even a little optimistic about future CO2 levels, warns the energy and risk analyst Charles Ebinger, then we’re in trouble.

Pushing developing countries to slow development because of the energy crisis we’ve created is not just unfair—it’s dangerous.

Tension was evident as humanists and atheists gathered this weekend, reported Mitchell Landsberg at the Los Angeles Times.  At issue among the attendees at the annual conference of the Council […]

New drilling techniques have driven down the price tag of harvesting natural gas from shale—and set the stage for shale gas to become what will be the game-changing resource of the decade.

nn The Alaska Volcano Observatory is reporting that both current eruptions in the Aleutians – at Okmok Caldera and Mount Cleveland – are showing signs of a lava extruding from […]

One of the arguments I have been making in talking to journalists is to beware the hype over the relative impact of the climate skeptics movement in contributing to societal […]

The 18th century French Neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres played the violin well enough to hold his own with “Sold His Soul to the Devil” good musicians such as […]

Eruptions Word of the Day: Harmonic Tremor and Tornillos. There are few methods that get as much attention in the world of volcanic monitoring than measuring the release of seismic […]

David Keith, director of the Energy and Environmental Systems Group at the University of Calgary, says geoengineering should be "a central part of how we think about managing climate risk over the next 100 years."

An initiative that I have been pitching in talks across the country (for example, go here, here, and here), has been proposed for official funding in Congress. Stay tuned for […]

Now that Obama has his science and environmental policy team in place, there’s great optimism for important new directions in policy. Yet it will take smart and effective communication to […]

As usual, global warming is no where close to being a major topic of debate in the upcoming election, despite the fact that 2006 will be a historic high in […]

Achieving sustainability can be a tricky balance for businesses. Even if adopting sustainable practices makes clear sense for the long-term, Copenhagen Business School professor Bjørn Lomborg notes that businesses face […]

n So it’s 2010, and we’re not living on Mars, nor even zipping through the sky in flying cars. But neither do we have to bow to our new insect […]

Two small asteroids that were discovered on September 5th by the Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Ariz., whizzed past the Earth on Wednesday. According to scientists, the first asteroid (2010 […]

If you’re not a computer programmer, the name Bjarne Stroustrup might not mean that much to you. The creator of the coding language C++ isn’t exactly a household name. But […]

“Chucky Fat Face,” artist Chuck Close admits to being called by fellow artist Richard Serra during their graduate school days together at Yale early on in the film Chuck Close, […]

The Metcalfe Institute at the University of Rhode Island has announced its 2008 Grantham Prize winners for environmental reporting. The series “Choking on Growth” by The NY Times on China […]

While the PZ Myers Affair dominates discussion at Scienceblogs this weekend, it’s important to remind ourselves that there is an invisible middle of perspectives from scientists, atheists and the religious […]

Graham, Kerry, Lieberman, and Gore all share the same goal but are moving to differentiate themselves as a way to claim credit for climate action and to appeal to different […]

On YouTube over the weekend, John Edwards announced his candidacy for president. Apart from his “Two Americas” theme on economic and racial justice, science issues stand as a secondary part […]

First, I would like to thank all those who watched the Sci Fi Science debut and made it such a smashing success. I was overwhelmed by all the response. I […]

We need to use what we have better, use less of it, and develop credible alternative sources of energy.

At The New Yorker this week, Ryan Lizza provides an account of why the Senate cap and trade legislation failed, told mostly from the perspective of staffers working for Senate […]

If you read the NY Times or WPost in print, you’ve probably noticed over the past 6 months the regular full page ads that have been placed by Monsanto. Similar […]

Tomorrow at the University of Washington I will be speaking to the Department of Communication in the morning and then joined in the evening by Chris Mooney to deliver our […]