Atmospheric

The Government Wants More Coal To Get Energy Costs Down- Is That Bad For The Air?

President Donald Trump is about to sign an executive order restarting coal leasing on federal lands while classifying coal as a critical mineral.  Social media critics, and academics being quoted in media, are declaring the end of the world due to American ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 6 2025 - 10:03am

PM2.5 Is Killing You, Claim Ecologists, Except There Are No Deaths

A new simulation claims small-micron particulate matter, so small you need an electron microscope to see it, is killing 250,000 people each year. PM 10, 10 microns in size, is a well-known killer. That is wildfires and smog but after smog was drastically r ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 7 2025 - 4:30am

Climate Change Implicated In Teen Pregnancy

Young women are at at increased risk of school dropout, transactional sex, gender-based violence, and early pregnancy, leading authors of a new paper to declare climate change a public health emergency rather than just an environmental issue. ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2025 - 11:38am

Global Fossil-Fuel Emissions Could Decline In 2015, Thanks To Natural Gas

Carbon dioxide emissions have always been something of a guess because they rely on self-reported figures. The developed world has been transparent but it was only a few years ago that China admitted to under-counting its own emissions, telling a differen ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2025 - 1:33pm

Lots Claim On Surveys That They'll Help Fight Climate Change- But Surveys Are Not Behavior

Before COVID-19, it was a large number of Democrats and a tiny number of Republicans who distrusted vaccines, believing something like that they caused autism, or that FDA was in cahoots with Big Pharma, or some weird supplement was just as good as medicin ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 4 2025 - 1:34pm

Hurricanes: Water, Not Wind, Is Deadliest

When most people think of hurricanes, they imagine winds gusting over 100 miler per hour, but water has been responsible for 86 percent of all direct hurricane and tropical storm fatalities in the United States for almost this entire century. Floods, rip c ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 6 2025 - 9:17am

Trump Ending Carbon Capture Mandates Attached To Grants Could Spark A New Industrial Revolution

The U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to claw back US$3.7 billion in grants from industrial demonstration projects may create an unexpected opening for American manufacturing. ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 23 2025 - 9:54am