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The Well-Intentioned, Misguided Eco-Doomers

December 20, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Anthropocene, ecocide, ecology, environment, environmentalism, select | 140 comments

https://www.mdifitness.com/9a8q639b If you are a regular consumer of environmental news and commentary, you are familiar with the narrative of humanity’s downfall. The story, we are told, looks like this. If we continue to ignore the danger signs while exceeding the planet’s carrying capacity, the future may get ugly. For the time being, we are on… https://www.andrewlhicksjrfoundation.org/uncategorized/4gpre2pr7t Continue Reading…

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How the GMO Debate is Framed

December 5, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in biotechnology, environment, GMOs, green groups, Greenpeace, select | 75 comments

Can You Order Klonopin Online The business journalist Marc Gunther has a really good article at the Guardian on yet another battle brewing on the GMO front. It’s about a food advocacy group’s campaign to stop McDonald’s from using new strains of a genetically modified potato, which as Gunther writes, are designed to deliver both environmental and health benefits. They… Continue Reading…

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The Persistence of a Popular Environmental Meme

December 2, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in ecology, environment, nature, science, select | 5 comments

There are certain tropes that linger in the public imagination long after they’ve been discredited. Such is the case with the “balance of nature.” In 2009, the ecologist John Kricher wrote a book about this “enduring myth,” and years before that, another ecologist, Daniel Botkin, published his seminal Discordant Harmonies in 1990, which I think was… Continue Reading…

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Is Wind Energy Making a Dent in New York's Carbon pollution?

November 29, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Energy, energy policy, environment, nuclear power, renewable energy, wind power, wind turbines | 34 comments

https://www.varesewedding.com/c67ypvnx4a2 Guest post by Candace Sheppard Wind energy production in New York State is expected to double in the next five years. Photo by U.S. Department of Energy. A day after a study was released last week about wind turbines killing more than 600,000 bats in the United States in 2012, the Environment America Research Policy Center released its second report about… https://www.fogliandpartners.com/228qbkp7r9 Continue Reading…

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How Green is Your Thanksgiving Turkey?

November 28, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in environment | 8 comments

Guest post by Jess Scanlon Today millions of Americans gather for the traditional Thanksgiving harvest festival. At many of these celebrations the centerpiece of the Thanksgiving dinner is a roasted turkey. From an environmental standpoint, the turkey falls somewhere between chicken and eggs. A Cornell study shows it takes 14 units of fossil fuel to produce a… Continue Reading…

Should the Precautionary Principle Shut Down Wind Turbines?

November 18, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in birds, ecology, Energy, environment, environmental journalism, wildlife, wind farms, wind turbines | 86 comments

In 2012 Scientific American asked: Are Wind Turbines Getting More Bird and Bat-Friendly? In case you weren’t aware, wind energy has an ecological downside that’s hasn’t yet been smoothed out. As AP reporter Dina Cappiello wrote earlier this year, “the green industry is allowed to do not so green things”: It kills protected species with impunity and conceals the… https://www.scarpellino.com/hrflvllm3 Continue Reading…

Why Is New York City's Air Getting Cleaner?

October 9, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Energy, environment, environmental justice, fracking, natural gas | 6 comments

Several weeks ago, this was the headline for a press release: Mayor Bloomberg announces New York City’s air quality has reached the cleanest levels in more than 50 years. That’s quite a claim. Most media outlets reporting this story cut and pasted from the press release; few bothered to delve into the report Bloomberg was… Continue Reading…

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Our Fraught Relationship with Technology

September 19, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Anthropocene, climate change, Energy, environment, environmentalism, fracking, global warming, select | 6 comments

For those of us fortunate enough to be born into the right circumstances, life is good, with antibiotics, modern dentistry, vaccines, climate-controlled homes, big-screen TV’s, smart phones. The sum of this, however, is worrying to some: What is the toll to the planet, to the ecosystems that support us and the rich diversity of animals and… https://yourartbeat.net/2025/03/11/zojbeke Continue Reading…

Climate Game Changers

May 20, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, coal, Energy, environment, select | 20 comments

https://municion.org/znxosgir5wn In a recent report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) lamented: The picture is as clear as it is disturbing: the carbon intensity of the global energy supply has barely changed in 20 years, despite successful efforts in deploying renewable energy. Another fact, noted in the IEA’s report, will disturb anyone concerned about climate change: The unremitting… https://www.wefairplay.org/2025/03/11/npg55kgm8 Continue Reading…

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A New Climate Survey Tells Us What?

May 16, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, climate communication, climate science, environment, select | 95 comments

Sometimes I think the climate debate remains stalled because those who are most concerned refuse to ask the pertinent questions. Instead, they keep refighting old battles that are no longer relevant to a constructive discourse. The latest example is this survey by John Cook et al that is getting a lot of undeserved attention in… https://chemxtree.com/thiyqdagx Continue Reading…

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