Of this year’s GOP nominees, none recognize climate change as a man-made problem, or a problem at all. Their views differ from those of the men and women…
Imagine; next Monday, a fresh-faced CEO announces something thrilling. He (it’s always a “he”) promises a product so transformative, so powerful, that it’ll affect everyone. Overnight, the world’s…
Climate guilt is definitely a thing. Those who feel strongest about global warming—activists, academics, “greenies”—are some of the same people who’ve benefited most from carbon-emitting systems of privilege…
A New England angler argues that cod have never been more abundant; that limiting their harvest is a cultural attack, not scientific necessity1. In the Gulf of Mexico,…
Extinction rates are difficult to measure. We don’t know exactly how many species exist, and we don’t know how fast they’re dying off, or when. Scientists have guessed….
In a speech to science writers in 1954, Lewis Strauss famously predicted that every U.S. household would soon be powered by abundant nuclear energy, “too cheap to meter.”…
“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.” Psalm 51:5 Attitudes about climate change can, at times, share a certain symbolic similarity…
Avoiding the worst consequences of climate change—the raison d’être of modern environmentalism—requires a rapid worldwide reduction in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Achieving that reduction demands…