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GMO Opponents Use Fear and Deception to Advance Their Cause

March 28, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in biotechnology, genetically modified foods, GMOs, science, science communication, select | 191 comments

The anti-GMO troops in the United States received some unwelcome news this week from Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). At a congressional hearing on Thursday, Hamburg reiterated the FDA’s support for voluntary GMO labeling initiatives, but nothing beyond that: The way FDA has for many years interpreted the law… https://www.salernoformazione.com/8bqcuzsp6cf Continue Reading…

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The Coal Quandary

March 27, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in clean coal, climate change, global warming, select, Uncategorized | 40 comments

https://www.scarpellino.com/kcz6obctd In the late 2000s, the notion of “clean coal” was widely panned. As Bryan Walsh wrote in a 2009 Time piece: currently there’s no economical way to capture and sequester carbon emissions from coal, and many experts doubt there ever will be. Critics in the Guardian and elsewhere dismissed “clean coal” as industry greenwash. But… https://www.fogliandpartners.com/v0uod4ye58l Continue Reading…

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Judging the Merits of a Media-Hyped 'Collapse' Study

March 21, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in coal, collapse, science journalism | 104 comments

As I discussed in the previous entry, a recent Guardian blog post (structured loosely as a news article) made worldwide headlines. It was trumpeted by the Guardian blogger as an “exclusive”; he was given a copy of a paper soon to be published in the journal Ecological Economics. Because he didn’t provide any context for the… Continue Reading…

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About that Popular Guardian Story on the Collapse of Industrial Civilization

March 21, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in collapse, science journalism, select | 38 comments

https://chemxtree.com/19t0f951 The end of the world, like everything worth knowing these days, will be tweeted: NASA-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for ‘irreversible collapse’? | Nafeez Ahmed http://t.co/nWqOcD3UkB — Guardian Environment (@guardianeco) March 14, 2014 If a study with the imprimatur of a major U.S. government agency thinks civilization may soon be destined to fall apart, I… Zolpidem Sale Online Continue Reading…

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The March of Climate Determinism

March 20, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, climate security, global change, global warming, select | 16 comments

Klonopin For Sale In the late 2000s, a new climate change story line emerged in the media. The seeds for this narrative were perhaps sown ten years ago, when a worst-case scenario report commissioned by the Pentagon triggered breathless headlines about a research field known as “abrupt climate change.” Perhaps you saw the 2004 movie. The sensationalist portrayal of… https://www.onoranzefunebriurbino.com/cagkt2olrc Continue Reading…

The Merchants of Doom

March 17, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in collapse, ecocide, ecology, environmentalism | 15 comments

https://www.infoturismiamoci.com/2025/03/sduuojiwqp Paul Ehrlich and Ann Ehrlich, two long-time prominent voices in the environmental community, often speculate about the future of humanity. They recently shared this anecdote: A few years ago we had a disagreement with our friend Jim Brown, a leading ecologist. We told him we thought there was about a 10 percent chance of avoiding a… https://municion.org/z0h6tu8bpx1 Continue Reading…

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The Inevitable Failure of a Climate Change Message

March 14, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, climate communication, global warming, science communication | 139 comments

Not long ago my wife and I went out to dinner at a restaurant with another couple, who, like us, have two boys. The conversation inevitably turned to our kids, school, family stuff. Their older son made the transition this year to junior high school. I asked how this was going. Pretty well, the mother… https://www.varesewedding.com/jbto5u3ql Continue Reading…

Environmental Groups are Flirting with Extinction

March 7, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Audubon, environmentalism, nature | 65 comments

https://www.fogliandpartners.com/g97ibx3u This April 22, Earth Day turns 44. The green movement is not aging well. Like today’s U.S. Republican Party, it has a diversity problem and speaks primarily to a narrow, graying demographic slice of the United States. In 2009, Francis Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) said to the New York Times: Our groups… Buy Zolpidem Online Usa Continue Reading…

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The Right to Be Manipulated

March 5, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in biotechnology, food movement, GMOs | 62 comments

The list of supermarkets, companies and restaurants hopping aboard the anti-GMO train keeps growing. Last year Whole Foods and Chipotle made headlines for their pledges to go GMO-free. [CORRECTION: Only Chipotle has made that pledge; Whole Foods has committed to labeling any of its products that contain GMOs] Numerous food companies have already slapped such a label on… https://www.mdifitness.com/ccbo9iy Continue Reading…