In the midst of the George W. Bush Administration, science writer Chris Mooney’s The Republican War on Science (Basic Books, 2005) noted an increasing trend: the rejection of science by a growing number of Republican Party members, not just on evolution, but on topics as varied as stem cell research, the hole in the ozone [...]
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Christine Shearer has written 6 articles so far, you can find them below.
Current Events, Politics & Economy
Attempt to Roll Back Wind in Wisconsin?
Members of the Wisconsin legislature may vote today – March 6, 2012 – to suspend recently agreed upon rules in the state that streamlined and made more efficient the state’s wind siting requirements. Although the legislators pushing for suspension cite the need for local control over wind rules as their motivation, many of them are [...]
Environment
“Expect the Unprecedented”: Weather Underground Meteorologist Jeff Masters On Our Shifting Climate
If you are interested in weather, chances are you have visited Weather Underground and read the posts of its director of meteorology, Dr. Jeff Masters. The consistently reliable Masters has been a rare voice in helping make sense of, rather than cloud (zing!), the increasingly strange weather events hitting the planet. Masters has studied weather [...]
Environment
Will fossil fuel companies face liability for climate change?
By Christine Shearer In a recent article in National Journal, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) President Tim Phillips said there is no question that AFP and others like it have been instrumental in the rise of Republican candidates who question or deny climate science: “We’ve made great headway. What it means for candidates on the Republican side is, [...]
Culture & History
Drilling in the Arctic: Perspectives from an Alaska Native
On October 3, 2011, the Obama administration said it was moving forward with oil-drilling leases off the coast of Alaska issued by the Bush administration in 2008. The leases had been challenged by environmental groups, opposition that gained momentum after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. Yet the Interior Department said it would uphold nearly [...]
Environment
James Hansen’s Storms of my Grandchildren
The Scientific is Political and Personal: NASA Scientist James Hansen Reaches Out in Storms of My Grandchildren In June 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen testified to the U.S. Senate that global warming was underway and humans were a factor. As Hansen recounts in Storms of my Grandchildren, he thought U.S. politicians would do the logical [...]
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