Atmospheric
- Centralized Energy Will Be Better For Emissions And Health In Poor Countries- Even If It's Coal
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In countries that have embraced centralized energy and migrated away from individual cooking with dung or wood, both public health and the emissions have improved. So why not pay for all developed countries to switch? The World Bank wanted to do that half ...
Article - News Staff - May 3 2021 - 2:14pm
- The Naturalistic Fallacy That Holds Back Some In The West From Progress Keeps India From Lowering Emissions Too
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A billion people still use wood for cooking and heating- and western countries are to blame. In the last decade, centralized energy production for developing countries was derailed unless they used solar or wind- neither of which are viable on their own. T ...
Article - News Staff - May 3 2021 - 2:19pm
- Tree Farts And Ghost Forests A New Target For Climate Change
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A new paper finds that greenhouse gas emissions from standing dead trees in coastal wetland forests are not properly accounted for when assessing the environmental impact of so-called "ghost forests." Ghost forests are what is left of former for ...
Article - News Staff - May 13 2021 - 12:12pm
- During The Last Ice Age, Global Cooling Dropped The Temperature On Land 11 Degrees
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An analysis of noble gases dissolved in groundwater finds that the low-to-mid latitude land surfaces at low elevation cooled on average by 11 degrees Fahrenheit during the Last Glacial Maximum- the ice age. Prior to modern times, ice ages were about 90,000 ...
Article - News Staff - May 17 2021 - 2:53pm
- Urban Emissions Decreased In High-Income Countries And It Would Be More If 'Virtual' Pollution Was Not Included
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Starting in 1975, in defiance of Population Bomb claims of mass famine about to happen, agricultural science hit an inflection point and more people began to be fed on less land, using less water and energy, with less environmental strain than ever before. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 7 2021 - 11:52am
- Weather: Where Science And Supernatural Beliefs Meet
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On July 15 971, the bones of St Swithin were removed from their resting place on the order of Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, and placed in a shrine inside the cathedral. The saint, it seemed, did not approve. A violent storm followed, and rain fell for ...
Article - The Conversation - Jul 14 2021 - 6:13pm
- California Fires: Where There's Smoke There's PM 2.5 Junk Science
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As I write this, our local school is closed due to concern about smoke inhalation. Other parts of the nation may not realize it but two severe wildfires broke out recently, in northern and southern California. If this had happened anywhere near New York Ci ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 24 2021 - 2:53pm
- Exposure To Wildfire Smoke May Increase Preterm Birth Risk- But It Would Be The PM10, Not PM2.5
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A new study statistically correlates wildfire smoke to pre-term birth risk. There are a number of confounders in that, of course, like that exposure to wildfires creates a great deal of stress and often hurried actions and those are huge factors, but they ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 25 2021 - 4:37pm
- Claim: 30,000 Lives Could Be Saved By Making The World's Cleanest Air Even Cleaner- But The Data Don't Show It
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With air pollution a distant memory outside some pockets in the United States (or during wildfires), the U.S. EPA oddly embraced one paper, which they had not seen any data for(1), claiming that particles so small they could only be detected with an electr ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 30 2021 - 12:23pm
- Do You Make Real Estate Decisions Based On The Emissions Of The Property?
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A consulting firm that charges you to tell you how to cut your emissions is now claiming that properties which don't spend a lot of money will plummet in value in the near future. So if you own commercial property, you have been warned. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 16 2021 - 2:29pm