Environment

Your Refrigerator Is Where All That Farmer's Market Produce Goes To Die

In America, some groups tell us expiration dates on food are just a conservative guideline while other groups insist that if someone buys expired food the merchant should go to jail. In Europe it can be even more strange, they once tried to ban ugly fruit ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2019 - 11:08am

No Scientific Cliff Edge Of 12 Years To Save Planet (or 18 Months)- Can IPCC Challenge 'Deadlines Make Headlines' Misreporting?

Yes there is much we need to do and can do. As we ramp up on pledges quickly we reduce future impacts of droughts, wild fires, hurricanes and other climate related local disasters. We will reduce the effects of sea level rise, and avert warming levels lik ...

Article - Robert Walker - Aug 31 2019 - 3:36pm

Science Not Hype: EPA Confirms Again That Food Has Safe Pesticide Levels

The final results of of the latest annual Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program found that samples are again below the tolerance levels set by the EPA. The FDA evaluates foods annually for pesticide residues. Final results from the surveys are released afte ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2019 - 12:11pm

Climate Change: Electrical Industry's 'dirty Secret' Is Only 0.11% Of UK's Greenhouse Gas Emissions- What The BBC Left Out

It's only 0.11% of UK greenhouse gas emissions and there are replacements already in use industrially as we ramp down to zero emissions by 2050. This is a known problem, the technology to solve it has been in development since 2016 and in commercial ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 14 2019 - 1:00pm

Do Not Adjust Your Set)- Why We Should Keep With Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity Of 3°C For Now

This is a story that is scaring some people. New research that is suggesting that perhaps the climate is more sensitive to CO2 than previously thought- but this is way jumping the gun. We get many results like this sometimes running too hot, sometimes too ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 20 2019 - 7:18am

Does Bernie Sanders $16 Trillion Green New Deal Pay For Itself?

As young children worldwide protest over climate change, I thought I'd do a post about Bernie Sanders' Green Climate Change plan. (click to watch on Youtube) Bernie Sanders' idea is one of many ideas but one of the ones that promises the mo ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 22 2019 - 6:43pm

The Alarming Decline In Avian Wildlife

     Habitat loss, climate change, unregulated harvest and pollution have all contributed to severe ecological challenges encompassing countless species around the world. The inordinate focus on species extinction has, ironically, led to an under apprecia ...

Article - Scott Beers - Sep 24 2019 - 8:02am

No Conker Tree Is NOT Really At Risk Of Extinction- Is About Native Original Distribution In Greece, Albania And Macedonia

This is another scary headline that doesn’t mean what it seems to mean from the titles. We do not risk a world without the conker tree and there is no way it can go extinct. After all it is easy to cultivate. Here is an example story to debunk: 'Alar ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 27 2019 - 2:25pm

Twitter Panic Over 5 Square Meters Of Bubbling Methane- Natural Arctic Methane Increase Is Comparable To Human Emissions

We often get scary stories saying that Arctic methane emissions are increasing. Recently many are panicking about a story in NewsWeek which has been widely retweeted. When you drill down to the details is about a tiny patch of Arctic methane bubbles in th ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 10 2019 - 1:03am

No We Do Not Risk Birds Vanishing From The US Skies- And Have We Really Lost 3 Billion Birds Since 1970?

This is another study that has hit the news, this time scaring people with the idea that the whole of the US may lose all its birds rapidly in the near future. Short summary- studies like this are hard to do and the 3 billion figure should be treated caut ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 11 2019 - 8:51pm