Environment

This Is How You Save A Million Threatened Species- And Make Biodiversity Great Again- The Solutions In The UN IPBES Report

You have probably seen the headlines “One million species threatened with extinction and humans to blame” and such like. But did you know, the UN study that lead to those headlines analysed the reasons we continue to lose species to extinction, and found ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 14 2019 - 8:36am

Sunlight Breaks Down Styrofoam 30X Faster Than Microbes

Polystyrene, one of the world's most common plastics (one popular product is Styrofoam), degrades in decades when exposed to sunlight, rather than thousands of years as previously claimed.  Polystyrene has been routinely detected in the world's o ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2019 - 1:30pm

Six Reasons Organic Is NOT The Most Environmentally Friendly Way To Farm

Contrary to widespread consumer belief, organic farming is  not  the best way to farm from an environmental point if view. The guiding principal of organic is to rely exclusively on natural inputs.  That was decided early in the 20th century, decades befor ...

Article - Steve Savage - Oct 22 2019 - 3:13pm

Shift To Organic Farming Would Cause Food Yields To Plummet 40% And Carbon Cost To Rise Up To 170%

A new study finds that if the United Kingdom did as The Guardian routinely advocates and abandoned modern agricultural science, people would starve. Or diets would change to where the rich had a variety while the poor suffered on subsistence fare. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2019 - 3:47pm

Half Of The World's Non-Ice Land Is Wilderness

It's a surprise for Americans to learn that the U.S. has more open land than the entire continent of Africa, even though Africa is 3X the size of the U.S., and it is an even bigger surprise when people learn that, of all the area not covered by ice, h ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2019 - 8:46am

Debunked: Myth Of Green Growth- Financial Times- Annotated

Here I debunk an article in the Financial Times- although by the title it is supposedly about myths about green technology and renewables, it actually perfectly highlights most of the scientific and even financial myths about renewables propagated by some ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 26 2019 - 11:53pm

No Cities WON’T Be Erased By 2050- Millions More ALREADY Living Below Sea Level Than Was Thought- Protected By Dikes

This is running with click bait titles suggesting massively more people are at risk of sea level flooding than before. But it’s just better elevation maps. The sea level rise is the same but more people than they thought are already living below sea level ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 5 2019 - 5:15am

US Alone Gives Notice To Withdraw From Paris Climate Accord- Not For Pittsburgh City- Agreement Remains Strong (with Meme)

This is the first day that countries can give their one year notification to leave the Paris agreement. It's no surprise that the US has given notification. But he is not speaking for the city of Pittsburgh, who have taken strong action on climate ch ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 5 2019 - 7:48pm

Extinction Rebellion Give No Reasons For 2025 Zero Emissions Or Claim That Billions Will Die- What Would A Better Objective Be?

It’s so good to see some climate scientists at last starting to speak up about the awful over the top things Extinction Rebellion activists are saying, though I wish more would speak up and speak up more strongly. Rupert Read is a philosophy professor. Do ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 9 2019 - 11:00am

How Does The New York Times Get 'How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong' So Wrong?- Fact Checking Their Climate Articles

The New York Times has done numerous mistaken climate change stories. They would never run an obituary about someone who hasn’t died. They wouldn’t make up a sports result and say one team won the superbowl when in fact the other did. They wouldn’t say th ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 12 2019 - 8:39pm