CLIMATE CHANGE
If by going dark for a day to protest anti-piracy legislation, Wikipedia and other websites can cause the US Congress to change course, could they do the same for global warming? James L. Powell imagines how it could work.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
The third and final installment of James Powell’s series examining whether there is a case against human caused global warming in the peer reviewed literature.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
This is part two in James Powell’s series examining the peer-reviewed scientific publications of 115 climate skeptics. His findings: despite ample opportunity, climate skeptics have failed to present any coherent alternative to the theory that carbon emissions are the primary driver of observed warming
CLIMATE SCIENCE
James L. Powell investigates the most prominent climate deniers to see how many of them have actually ever published peer-reviewed papers about climate science.
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