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How to Decide What Science is Real

There’s more to the scientific process and knowledge than just the latest slogan or political noise

… lives? Today’s most prominent science-related issues are COVID-19 and climate change, but many other things are also important to us: medications, nutrition, … latest natural disaster has historical precedent or might be the new climate change normal. But like real science, this takes work. It is worth it, though, …

Green Subsidies, Freight Trains, Gas Tax and More

A special edition of the MichiganVotes Roll Call Report

… designed to combat high temperatures, flooding, or power outages caused by climate change;” and more, in addition to activities like “monthly training and professional … designed to combat high temperatures, flooding, or power outages caused by climate change;” and more, in addition to activities like “monthly training and professional …

Don’t panic over ‘forever’ chemicals

Our ability to detect tiny amounts is improving

… in these issues in recent decades, however, has taken a back seat to climate change. But with the growing attention paid to so-called “forever chemicals,” … these reasons, policy decisions deserve wide-open debate. For many, climate change is a higher priority — either because of its forecasted impacts or …

Don’t panic over ‘forever’ chemicals

… in these issues in recent decades, however, has taken a back seat to climate change. But with the growing attention paid to so-called “forever chemicals,” … these reasons, policy decisions deserve wide-open debate. For many, climate change is a higher priority — either because of its forecasted impacts or …

Michigan will miss goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, climatologist says

State consumes too much power to rely solely on renewable energy

… 100% of its energy come from renewable sources by 2040. DTE Energy serves 2.3 million customers with electricity in southeastern Michigan. “Climate change is one of the defining issues of our era,” DTE said on its website. “That’s why DTE Electric is taking bold steps to significantly increase our …

By the Numbers

Beyond propaganda and rhetoric, numbers tell the real story

… coal-fired capacity by 2030 to keep up with current levels of growth. For more information go to http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/ill-wind-puts-climate-change-on-top-of-agenda/ 2007/03/09/1173166991682.html# and http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/coal.html.

If You Can't Tax Coal, Kill It With Regulation

… expensive to use that other forms of alternative energy could compete economically. The preferred strategy to eliminate coal is the Waxman-Markey Climate Change legislation, which is more commonly referred to as Cap and Trade or, increasingly, Cap and Tax. A recent study by the Heritage Foundation estimates …

Family Discovers 10,000-Year-Old Mastodon Bones in Backyard

May help reveal background for the mastodon’s extinction

… health of the animal, since a large debate surrounds how mastodons actually became extinct. Some scientists believe they died out as a result of climate changes and subsequent food scarcity, which would be revealed in the fossilized remains of the mastodons. For the most part, however, this has not been …

Gov. Granholm Gambling on Michigan's Economic Future With Energy Subsidies

… Among scandals which are calling into question the scientific validity of anthropogenic global warming, the meltdown of the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change and frigid temperatures and record snowfall gripping much of the nation, it appears federal legislation that forces more expensive alternative …

Climategate's Effect on Students

… means for students of science and for academic research in general. For these purposes, it's not really all that important who's right about climate change. We might not ever really know who's right. The debate is much more nuanced than one side being right and the other wrong. There's clearly evidence …