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Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
Climate Change, Politics, Oct 22nd, 2010,
The politicization of science class in the American public education system is nothing new, the main issue of contention being the teaching of evolution or natural selection in biology classes. Recently, however, teaching climate change in state schools has come under fire from skeptics in much the same way that evolution in the science curriculum has been challenged by creationism – most lately the proponents of intelligent design. A New York Times piece explores how in certain American states, advocates of climate change skepticism are campaigning to include their side of the climate argument in the curriculum. South Dakota has…
Tags: American, Climate change, creationism, New York Times, Politics, religion, school, science, skeptic, skepticism
Green living, Politics, Jun 7th, 2010,
Around the world, there are many people who follow (and perhaps sometimes even yell) the anti-plastic bag mantra: Ban the plastic bag! Well, it would seem that mantra is becoming a reality in California. Recently, the state Assembly voted 41 to 27 to pass a bill that will ban single-use plastic grocery bags, making it the first of its kind in the US. The ban was also endorsed by the California Grocers Association and Governor Schwarzenegger also plans to sign the bill if it passes the Senate as expected. You can check out information on the new bill here (search…
Tags: AB 1998, ban, bill, California, government, Green, plastic, plastic bag, Politics, prohibited, Recycling, reusable bags
Nature, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, May 3rd, 2010,
Environmental disasters tend to happen at really inconvenient times. Just after you open up a coastline to offshore drilling, a bothersome oil rig explodes and starts spilling a daily volume of hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude into a wildlife sanctuary. Awk-ward! US President Barack Obama’s cross-party overture regarding offshore drilling didn’t please many of his core supporters when he enacted it. Now that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is looking worse and worse every day, those feelings are strengthened. Obama has understandably put drilling plans on hold, effectively also putting domestic energy policy reform even more in…
Tags: disaster, drill, drilling, Gulf, inconvenient, Obama, offshore, oil, Politics, spill, US
Climate Change, Politics, Feb 26th, 2010,
Economic recession, ‘Climategate’ and other ensuing scandals may have shaken both the public’s faith in – and concern about – the realities of man made climate change. Yet a fickle media or confused citizenry have not been enough for most political establishments to break from some kind of platform that takes climate change and other environmental issues into account. Contemporary politics are still strongly influenced by what has become the zeitgeist of the day – and the parties of the future will no doubt be judged in part on how they are now reacting to environmental concerns. For the moment,…
Tags: climate, Climate change, copenhagen, Economist, environment, environmental, european union, Green, greener, Left, party, political, Politics, Right, Rising Tide
Climate Change, Politics, Feb 15th, 2010,
Physicist and climate historian Dr. Spencer Weart offers a historical and cultural perspective on the current debate about climate science – specifically, how it might be viewed by the historians of the future. As a history graduate and lover of futurism, this imagined perspective naturally piqued my interest. What stand out in Weart’s social history of the climate wars are the observations concerning the public’s loss of respect vis-à-vis the scientific community. This erosion of political capital came from the diversification of authority in terms of scientific information: we got our info about the climate from politicians, journalists, economists and…
Tags: climate, debate, future, historian, history, media, Politics, science, scientific, scientists, Spencer, Weart
Climate Change, Politics, Feb 10th, 2010,
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' src='http://gf3.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/7217.jpg' alt='skepticism-politics-and-profits' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> The current public ‘debate’ on climate science and global warming is for the most part essentially an ideological argument. Since climategate and ‘glaciergate’, the onslaught to discredit any scientist whose research supports ideas of anthropogenic global warming has grown noticeably. Yet those who are most vociferous in their denunciations of the IPCC, climate scientists and environmentalists as ‘warmists’ and ‘alarmists’ are usually not debating from a scientific standpoint, but from that of ideology or politics. Such propaganda wars seem to be lending support to groups that could be called ‘soft skeptics’, who are not flat out deniers of climate change…
Tags: climate, Climate change, debate, deniers, Exxon, ExxonMobil, Independent, oil, Politics, scientist, skeptics
