Scientific Research

Uber-ironic 1962 ad touts oil’s ability to melt glaciers! 0
Posted 1 day, 12 hours ago
THE SOUND OF PROGRESS

One doctor’s quest to sound the alarm on ‘wind turbine syndrome’ 57
Posted 5 days, 19 hours ago Nina Pierpont argues that wind turbines create inaudible but dangerous sound. Out of all the obstacles wind energy faces—the up-front costs, the competition from subsidized fossil fuels, the aesthetic objections--this shaky claim has become one of the least likely and most annoying problems for the industry.
Nature: “Dynamic thinning of Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheet” 0
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago
“Human activities are the primary driver,” impacts are projected to worsen “substantially” and “If we are to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change, emissions of greenhouse gases must be dramatically reduced.”

18 leading scientific organizations send letter to Senators 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago
The man who confused the NY Times and New Scientist, the man who moved George Will and math-challenged Morano to extreme disinformation

Exclusive interview with Dr. Mojib Latif 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Change we should avoid

Global warming set to intensify August heat, Climate Central study finds 8
Posted 3 months ago
Hot enough for you? Maybe not. Climate Central crunched the numbers, and your Augusts are going to get hotter and hotter. By the 2050s, Houston, Sacramento, Tampa Bay, and Orlando could have as many August days over 95 degrees F as Phoenix and Dallas experience today. Northern cities won't escape either.
Why I LIke to Do Battle With the Deniers

The climate science fight club 14
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
I like to engage in the fight with global warming deniers every once in a while as a sort of bloodsport, a fight club. It gets the blood flowing, like a good workout at the gym or a big cup of coffee.
A bird in the hand...

Calif. Audubon: Putting birders to work to build a case for climate action 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
While climate change could cause significant range declines in up to a third of California's birds, these impacts can be greatly lessened for many species if we take immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Dept. of Misinformation

No, Jeff, there’s not a debate about the science of climate change 13
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Following on our in-depth series, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic, Grist is launching an occasional feature that tracks the latest global warming denialisms and skeptics garbage, making sure to point readers to the real story.
Big Blue's electric green dreams

IBM places big bet on lithium-air batteries 3
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
IBM has been recycling and repurposing a panoply of technologies to create a portfolio of environmental services -- everything from a traffic congestion pricing system in Stockholm to a smart water and electricity grid for Malta. Now Big Blue has its eye set on achieving a big leap forward in battery technology.
THIS TALK AIN'T CHEAP

Science diplomacy: An expectations game 0
Posted 5 months ago
In "The Limits of Science Diplomacy," SciDev.net Director David Dickson argues that scientific collaboration can achieve only very limited diplomatic victories. A conference hosted by the Royal Society in London earlier this month, entitled "New Frontiers in Science Diplomacy", seems to have arrived at a similar conclusion.

But this view of science diplomacy is overly pessimistc.
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: apocalypse edition 0
Posted 5 months ago
Did you hear about that climate report that came out? That 196-page report that, even though it's in layman's terms, is still ... 196 pages? Here's five lines to tell you what it's all about.
White House Releases Landmark Climate Change Report 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Come sail away

Around the Americas mission raises sails—and awareness 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
The crew aboard the Ocean Watch aim to educate as they navigate 25,000 miles around North and South America.
Letter from Europe

The iceman walketh 0
Posted 6 months ago
Pen Hadow and the other members of the Catlin Arctic Survey team set out earlier this year to measure the conditions of the Arctic sea ice -- in hopes of gathering data to inform the climate change talks in Copenhagen this December.
Now that's cold!

‘Ice People’ is packed with plenty of ice, not so many people 2
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Antarctica is warming rapidly, climate scientists report, upsetting fragile ecosystems and threatening the world with a significant rise in sea-levels. With the largely uninhabited and frozen continent melting before humanity's very eyes, what better time to roll out a new documentary about the coldest, driest and windiest place on Earth.
Taking Issue

Don’t jump to conclusions on swine flu and pork production 6
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Until the medical evidence is in, we just don't know if the swine flu that emerged in Mexico is linked with industrial pork production.
Presidential Brain Trust

Science in the planet’s interest 1
Posted 6 months, 4 weeks ago
President Obama taps some top climate and energy talent for his science advisory board.
Something Is Rotten on the NYT Op-Ed Page

A false choice from a familiar skeptic 5
Posted 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Bjorn Lomborg -- Danish statistician, self-styled "Skeptical Environmentalist," and long-time Grist nemesis -- is back, this time courtesy of the New York Times op-ed page.
lies, damned lies and statistics

Adventures in the FUD-osphere 1
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
FDR must have been talking about the Internet when he famously said that we have nothing to fear but fear itself.But for our time, we need to update FDR: not just fear, but FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt).