Category Climate change

These two apps are awesome. There’s Star Walk – 5 Stars Astronomy Guide which costs $2.99 (and worth every penny). Star Walk enables you to point your iPhone at the sky and see what stars, constellations, and satellites you are looking at…

I have several times proposed a twentieth century version of Pascal’s Wager: the Climate Change Denier’s Wager. Pascal was of course the fifteenth century ardent atheist, scientist and math master The Church so feared that upon his death cut off…

From those crazed environmental radicals at Scientic American. Agricultural expansion and climate change are altering the Amazon. The dry season is longer. Soil runoff is increasing. Trees are growing faster, absorbing more carbon (which is good.) But the Amazon is…

Drew Shindell of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City and his team looked at hundreds of proposed measures to deal with climate change using a model developed by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). A new…

The EPA has a nifty interactive map to help you find big polluters nationwide.