Far from the Ivory Tower: Global Warming Research in the Gulf of Maine
“What makes me so nervous about the changes that are happening with rapid climate change is less where we are going than the rate we are going there.”
Read MoreScott Pruitt, Man of the People
Scott Pruitt, the cabinet officer charged with dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency, generally travels first class to avoid people who say mean things to him at airports. This is costing American taxpayers a lot of money. It’s also insulating one more politician from the people he is supposed to represent.
Read MoreIt’s Science Friday. Who cares?
When Sam Clovis, President Trump’s nominee to be the Department of Agriculture’s chief scientist, was asked to list his academic credentials in science or agriculture, he answered, “None.”
Read MoreOne More Thumb in the Nose
It’s fitting, I guess, that yesterday’s evisceration of Barack Obama’s environmental and climate legacy came during the anniversary week of the Exxon Valdez’s 11-million-gallon crude-oil spill into Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay.
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