And the #1 blog entry published thus far in 2017 discussed whether there was an evolutionary advantage to being stupid:
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As I was looking through the scientific literature the other day, I came across an article published in 1973, “The…
Category: 9. Environment
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Pollution: not “an unavoidable consequence” of development
The headlines are grabbing people’s attention:
CBC News: “Pollution causing more deaths worldwide than war or smoking”; CNN: “Pollution linked to 9 million deaths worldwide in 2015, study says“; BBC: “Pollution linked to one in six deaths“; …
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The data gap problem | ScienceBlogs
“The monitoring of the atmosphere, of the surface of the Earth, of what’s going on in the ocean and under the ice — all of that is overwhelmingly funded by the federal government.”
— Former Obama science adviser John Holdren
The other…
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The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters
For people who are wondering why I’m not doing more of my patented chronologies or collections of posts, the answer is pretty simple. There’s so damn much going on it’s hard for me to find the time and mental energy to bring it…
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The limits of adaptation | ScienceBlogs
The release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is, conceiveably, the most important environmental issue in the world today.
— “Costs and benefits of carbon dioxide,” Nature, May 3, 1979
Actually, the scientific…
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NASA team provides free satellite public health data to researchers and communities
by Dominika Heusinkveld, MD, MPH Researchers at NASA and the University of Arizona, among others, are hoping to make real-time air quality forecasting a reality in the next few years. The NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, or…
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