Ivar Giaever.jpg On September 14, renowned Nobel Prize winning physicist Ivar Giaever announced his resignation as a Fellow at the American Physical Society (APS). The reason? His grievance ...
Last week, the New York Times published a bombshell of an expose about the government's woefully inadequate program to monitor and ensure the security and safety of American energy pipelines.…
friedman_quote.jpg In her famous book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, author and activist Naomi Klein quotes the Godfather of free market capitalism, Milton Friedman, whom...
Solyndra-logo2.jpg The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing yesterday on the ongoing and growing scandal in the wake of the bankruptcy of Solyndra Corporation. Solynd...
Obama:Bush.jpg The ongoing scandal continues to blaze at Solyndra. Solyndra Corporation, a San Francisco Bay area solar panel start-up company, is under fire in the immediate aftermath of its Aug...
509983main_adjusted_annual_temperature_anomalies_final.gif Readers of my posts over the last half year will be familiar with the phenomenon of motivated reasoning, in which people’s subcons...
talismanlog-lg.gif Calgary oil company Talisman Energy has been outed as the major funder behind a Friends of Science video series that falsely tried to claim legitimacy by tacking a University…
al-gore-reality-project.jpg 7:00 PM on Wednesday, your time, marks the commencement of the Al Gore-led Climate Reality Project. A live webcast that will last one hour, the Project was annou...
Last Friday, exactly one year after the massive natural gas pipeline blast that killed eight and leveled a San Bruno, California neighborhood, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) brought the…
6107318134_aeb5a1e3f9_z.jpg Usually the best way to solve a neighborly spat is to march right up to the door and talk it out, face-to-face. However, if said neighbor happens to be…
472px-Justus_Sustermans_-_Portrait_of_Galileo_Galilei,_1636.jpg Ever since the Republican presidential debate last week, science watchers have been shaking their heads over Rick Perry’s rid...
Screen shot 2011-09-08 at 10.37.30 AM.png Evoking an emotional response in one’s audience is a rhetorical means of persuasion well documented since Aristotle. But like Aristotle writes in h...
800px-SanBrunoFireNight.jpg One year ago today, at about 6:11 pm, a massive natural gas line explosion ripped apart a residential neighborhood in San Bruno, California. The blast was described as...
marlo lewis.jpg When polluters needs someone to write an industry-friendly article, or make an appearance in the media to argue against the science of climate change, they often turn to…
dont-tread-on-me.jpg There’s a fascinating new public opinion analysis out today from Anthony Leiserowitz and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. It looks at political divides...
Picture 2.png The British Columbia Ministry of Energy was designated a “lead agency” in a backroom collaboration with Alberta and Saskatchewan to address water concerns for the provin...
scientific journals.JPG An editor resigns after a journal publishes a paper that seems to trash the scientific consensus on climate change—but is heavily criticized by top scientists. Where...
Rupert Murdoch.png Authored by Stephan Lewandowsky. This post originally appeared at The Guardian. Re-printed here with permission. Australia has unwittingly become a social experiment. A ...
john stossel.jpg Fox News host John Stossel says that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has passed its prime, and is no longer useful. After the Obama Administration last week overruled…
keystone xl exposed.jpg Earlier this week, in an interview with EnergyNow!, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu hinted that the administration would likely approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeli...
