Most of us have probably heard about cows producing methane as a potent greenhouse gas, which apparently could be roughly equivalent to emissions from driving a car for each cow. A recent paper suggests that methane produced by dinosaur flatulence over 150million years ago could have contributed to a massive temperature increase- average global temperatures [...]
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Wake Up and Smell the Dino Farts!
Posted by skepteco on May 9, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/wake-up-and-smell-the-dino-farts/
On Fracking
I attended an interesting presentation on “fracking”- hydraulic gas extraction- in UCC last week given by David Manz from Canada on the subject of “Gas Well Fracturing (Fracking)- Corporate Social Responsibility and Shared Value.” Manz has been involved in developing the Biosand Water Filter (BSF) in more than 65 countries around the world and also [...]
Posted by skepteco on May 9, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/on-fracking/
Cereal Killers
Activists from the group Take the Flour Back are planning to destroy a trial plot of genetically engineered wheat at the Rothamsted research center in the UK. Apparently there is nothing anyone can do to stop this- short of a counter-demonstration of Science Defenders, or Defenders of the Enlightenment perhaps, going there to confront the [...]
Posted by skepteco on May 3, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/cereal-killers/
“I Can change your Mind”
Just watched the interesting Australian TV show I Can Change Your Mind About…Climate. The show takes a novel format of taking two protagonists from either side of the climate debate and flying them around the world as they introduce to each other spokespeople for their respective causes. The climate activist is Anna Rose, founder and [...]
Posted by skepteco on April 28, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/i-can-change-your-mind/
The Trads and the Mods
Interesting post by Kieth Kloor on the split between traditionalists and modernists in the environmental movement: If there is a path to a more realistic, hopeful future, the green traditionalist has not advanced it. Getting back to the land was great hippy fun in the 1960s and 1970s. Inveighing against modern civilization and retreating into [...]
Posted by skepteco on April 26, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/the-trads-and-the-mods/
Power Hour: Please don’t turn the Lights Out
I meant to post something about Earth Hour last night when it took place, but ended up sharing dinner with friends- none of whom had heard of it, though its organisers claim it to be the “largest environmental event in history.” Earth Hour was instigated five years ago by the World Wildlife Fund . The [...]
Posted by skepteco on April 1, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/power-hour-please-dont-turn-the-lights-out/
GMO activists IOFGA jump the gun
Good article in the Guardian yesterday by Eoin Lettice from the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at University College Cork, on Why Ireland needs to test GM potatoes. A major new European Union study is set to examine the effects of growing genetically modified, blight-resistant potato plants on biodiversity and the environment in [...]
Posted by skepteco on March 24, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/gmo-activists-iofga-jump-the-gun/
Can religion help us solve climate change?
After the interesting the debate with @DarkOptimism on doomerism a couple of posts ago, I was intrigued to see him tweeting a link to the latest BigIssue which carries an article by Adam Forrest called Climate Change: A Matter of Faith and asks the question, Can Science and religion work together to save us from [...]
Posted by skepteco on March 23, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/can-religion-help-us-solve-climate-change/
Genetic Engineering should be welcomed by the Organics movement
Seems like there is a crack of light opening up in the organic movement with regard to Genetic Engineering, judging by remarks made by Phil Bloomer, director of policy and campaigns at Oxfam, at the Soil Association’s annual conference in London on Friday (March 2): “From the outside the organic movement seems insular, like it [...]
Posted by skepteco on March 22, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/genetic-engineering-should-be-welcomed-by-the-organics-movement/
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