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The BP Catastrophe: It Is Always Worse Than They Are Telling Us

The BP Catastrophe: It Is Always Worse Than They Are Telling Us

Since the explosion on the British Petroleum (BP) rig Deep Water Horizon on April 20, authorities have consistently underestimated the impact of the disaster.  The government was too slow to mobilize and effectively coordinate resources.  Stock analysts, a couple weeks ...Read more

Sustainable Fisheries?

Sustainable Fisheries?

“We need sound scientific findings that put fish and fishermen on the same level.”  So says Senator Charles Schumer, D-NY.  The recently concluded gathering of fishermen in the shadow of the US Capitol in DC attracted thousands of mostly commercial ...Read more

Connecting the Dots in Climategate

Connecting the Dots in Climategate

[Columnist’s note:  Originally I wrote a column about Russian charges of cherry picking data at the Hadley Climate Center.  Subsequently I located additional information, which seemed to warrant rewriting the piece.  Here is the revised version.]

Sometimes connecting the dots does ...Read more

A Matter of Faith: Is Climate Change the New Awakening?

Ours is still an age of belief.  To be sure, the spiritual mixes with the crassly materialistic in this month of Chanukkah and Christmas, as it does in all eleven months before it.  This holiday season is a time of ...Read more

Time for Climate Scientists to Stand and Deliver

Whoever leaked the e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia has exquisite timing. Coming on the eve of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, the uncovered e-mails, taken in isolation, make it appear that ...Read more

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