Category: “Right Column”
- Fracking doesn’t work as a climate change strategy, study says
- 2014 on track to be the hottest year since records started in 1880
- Concern rises about health impacts of breathing silica dust as demand for fracking sand surges 30 percent to 95 billion pounds/year
- Basic assumptions about climate change may be mistaken, WSJ says
- Atlantic wonders: How can one impugn the reliability of a scientific consensus while asserting one’s own scientific ignorance?
- Coal mining is likely cause of huge methane hotspot in U.S. Southwest that pollutes as much as 3.1 million cars a year
- New carbon capture unit at Saskatchewan coal plant consumes 21% of the electricity generated
- Plants have been absorbing 16% more carbon dioxide than we thought they were, but global warming expectations remain unchanged
- Mosquitoes and ticks becoming more of a problem in Minnesota because of climate change
- California’s reservoirs are one-third full, half their normal level, and chance is “high” that state is about to have a mega-drought