Corn ethanol is a terribly costly and damaging joke that has been inflicted on us by politicians looking for something that looks like a fix, rather than doing the much harder work to find real solutions to our energy problems. I've posted on corn ethanol before, and it's now time…
We are about to do a 180 on government attitude toward science. Barack Obama specifically singles out the "scientific process," and urges that we need to listen to scientists "especially when it's inconvenient." [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMlXNrBxM0g&eurl=http://bite-dose.com/science/obama-abandoning-science-fiction-as-he-announces-%E2%80%9Cscience-team%E2%80%9D/[/youtube]
Climate scientist James Hansen has recently argued that "fossil fuel "CEO's should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature". Why? Because they know exactly what they are doing. They are profit-fueled deniers, just like those big corporations who still push cigarettes while denying the well-known strong link between…
That's the message of Audrey Schulman, writing in Orion Magazine. Her article is entitled, "How to be a Climate Hero." Schulman describes psychology experiments where the subject is surrounded by stooges, everyone in the room doing a mundane task. Eventually, something untoward happens. For instance, smoke starts pouring out of…