Category Archives: temperature

The Trump-Pruitt war on science and the environment

Posted on 11 July 2017 by Peter Boyer

The Trump administration’s anti-science campaign is a threat to us all. We love America and we hate America, which is another way of saying we can’t ignore it. For better or worse, the United States determines much of what happens … Continue reading →

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The awful truth about our mastery over nature

Posted on 30 May 2017 by Peter Boyer

A new book by Clive Hamilton puts it in a nutshell: we’re screwed but we don’t know it. There is just one bottom line in the climate free-for-all – the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – and this … Continue reading →

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Realists, butterflies and the lunacy that is Carmichael

Posted on 18 April 2017 by Peter Boyer

It’s up to science, not Barnaby Joyce, to determine what’s real and what isn’t.   In Barnaby Joyce’s eyes, people who support schemes like Queensland’s proposed $21.7 billion Carmichael coal mine are “realists”. Those who don’t are people who prefer … Continue reading →

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