Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Science

• The rise of natural gas in our power sector is the No. 1 driver of U.S. emissions reduction, says Andre Beliveau
• The answer is not blowing in the wind
• Life discovered on a distant planet?
• The Starliner: worse than we thought
• Environment improves as more nations prosper — the greatest polluter is poverty
• Trump nixing conservation rule in favor of drilling and mining on federal lands
• Fifteen years after Deepwater Horizon, Trump is setting the stage for disaster | Terry Garcia
• The first colored eggs appeared long before Easter
• Robin McKie gave prescient warnings about climate change
• Darwin’s ‘Natural Selection’ Is in Need of Modifcation - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• In a recent article, we reported on a Cambridge University staff survey. We regret that an editing error led the article to say the figures were based on ‘staff who responded’
• Social media users react to RFK Jr.’s comments about children with severe autism
• There’s only one way to fight the climate greenlash: appeal to the naysayers’ self-interest | Martha Gill
• This week we learn that any moron can be shot into space. That’s One Stupid Step for Womenkind
• Cement is a carbon bomb, and Trump just made it harder to defuse
• Can you ace this week’s Slate News Quiz? Good luck!
• 'Almost all [food] disgusts are animal products,' psychologist says
• Climate zealots are always wrong — but never own up to their nonsense
• Katy Perry Went to Space. So What? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• The Spectacle Ep. 214: The Environmentalists’ War on Dogs - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• 'I am building a religion,' biohacker Bryan Johnson says. 'Dear humanity, I am building a religion'
• The all-female Blue Origin space flight took a crew of six women to suborbital space and back in less than 11 minutes on Monday
• America Returns To Active Forest Management
• If Trump doesn't fix this blunder, "people would die in their homes"
• Nobel Winner Joseph Stiglitz Denounces Columbia’s Apparent Capitulation to Trump
• Hands off, Says the Protest Industrial Complex
• ‘If we stopped using fossil fuels today, billions would die’
• A group of scientists beg people to believe that climate change is causing people to commit suicide
• Junk science and air pollution
• The White House is cutting funding for a climate alarmist program that bolsters the narrative that burning fossil fuels will doom the planet
• Pentagon orders employees to stop all communications promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and climate change
• Is Darwinism a ‘Potemkin’ Theory of Evolution? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Is the once-extinct dire wolf really back or did some of the science reporting go too far?
• Something in the air, and itâs not carbon dioxide
• Looking Back to Where the Sky Silences Us - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Why resurrect the dire wolf when existing animals are facing extinction? | Martha Gill
• RFK Jr. made big cuts to HHS. Milwaukee school kids are paying the price.
• Bad news for man's best friend: Dogs are environmental villains
• Seeing Australia’s beloved gumtrees dying makes my insides knot. If they can’t survive, how can we? | Jess Harwood
• The ‘Greatest President for Climate’ Decreased Carbon Emissions by 0.2 Percent in 2024 - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Councils should have a legal duty to fight climate change
• How does climate change affect our brains? Trump’s NIH just cut funding to study it.
• Australian voters are left in the dark on climate targets as they head to the ballot box | Tony Wood
• 'The climate movement has morphed into a social and political juggernaut,' says Bud Brigham
• EPA plans to eliminate greenhouse gas reporting requirements for thousands of U.S. industrial facilities
• Have researchers really ‘de-extincted’ the dire wolf? No, but behind the hype was a genuine breakthrough | Helen Pilcher
• I&I/TIPP poll shows Americans are increasingly skeptical of the green movement
• NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore reveals how his Christian faith strengthened him while he spent 286 days in space
• Michael Ginsberg: Progressives have turned Democrats into the Party About Nothing. It might make for a good sitcom, but for anyone forced to live under the Democrats’ leadership, it is no joke
• Those Dire Wolves Aren’t an Amazing Scientific Breakthrough. They’re a Disturbing Symbol of Where We’re Heading.
• This England: How do you steal yours?
• New Trump order would punish states for combating climate change
• We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz
• Georgia Bill Sparks MAHA Concerns About Alleged Chinese Poison Chemicals
• Weather is not getting worse, says climate pioneer Joe Bastardi
• Trump’s nominee for NASA director, Jared Isaacman, will focus on space exploration instead of diversity, equity, and inclusion
• How local backlash is derailing Albany’s clean-energy fantasies
• I Have a Bone to Pick With the Scientists Bringing the Dire Wolf Back From Extinction
• I’m not talking about the government that facilitates parents abusing their children. The whole point of biology is to perpetuate the species
• Senate Republicans push to repeal California’s de facto EV mandate
• ‘Life finds a way’ as science resurrects the dire wolf — and our world is richer for it
• Colossal Biosciences resurrects long-extinct dire wolf
• BBC Media Action: Country Director (Tanzania)
• Trump’s staffing cuts have weakened the Forest Service’s firefighting force
• We passed the 1.5C climate threshhold. We must now explore extreme options | Sir David King
• The U.S. Global Change Research Program is responsible for producing the National Climate Assessment
• Predator or Prey? It’s the Wrong Question for Great Powers Today
• The dubious legal theory Republicans are using to kill climate progress
• Here are some of the stories that went wrong in this week’s edition
• 'If Caesar Had Been a (Skeptical) Climatologist: If Caesar Had Been a (Skeptical) Climatologist: If Caesar Had Been a (Skeptical) Climatologist'
• Washington's Tidal Basin cherry blossoms are being blamed on global warming
• Trump’s aggressive pursuit of Greenland imperils America’s long-standing strategy in the high north
• Dangers of Global Governance: UN Aims for Global Carbon Tax on Shipping - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• So long to Biden’s ‘environmental justice’ scams — Team Trump is tackling REAL threats to water, air
• Paul Begala: Who decides what statutes say in Congress? The obvious answer is that Congress itself decides
• 23andMe’s demise is a warning: the US needs to overhaul genetic data protection | Dalton Conley
• Violent tornadoes and violent storms tore through the South and Midwest, killing at least six people and leaving half a million without power
• Elon Musk's SpaceX has received $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits
• Our Electric Rates Continue to Climb Because of Greedy Utilities and Climate Grift
• City Projects That Make Biking and Walking Safe Are on Trump's Hit List
• A Texas School Board Cut State-Approved Textbook Chapters About Diversity. A Board Member Says Material Violated the Law
• This week's CFACT: The Trump effect has spread throughout Western culture
• RFK Jr.’s old environmental group is extremely unhappy with Trump’s EPA
• Trump is effectively cutting off the Left’s massive, government-funded patronage networks
• NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams thanked President Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in their first interview since being rescued
• NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams express gratitude toward Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump
• Logging is quietly ravaging US forests. Trump is taking an axe to protections
• Trump wants to shutter FEMA. Can states fill its shoes?
• A broken system waiting to crash
• Farmers in Trump country banked on clean energy grants. Then things changed.
• Corvex’s Meister joins the board at Illumina. Here’s how he can create value for shareholders
• Crypto: The currency of the (uninhabitable) future
• Sen. Angus King questions why climate change was not included in the U.S. Intelligence Community’s annual threat assessment report
• The Global Warming Scare Hits Rock Bottom
• EPA’s Zeldin Unshackles American Energy Potential
• The real DOGE - Washington Examiner
• I’m mesmerized by the sight of rooftop pools sloshing over their parapets. It’s like seeing a building cry
• Good riddance to Just Stop Oil
• AI may help us cure countless diseases – and usher in a new golden age of medicine | Samuel Hume
• The Paris Climate Agreement was doomed from the start