6:53 pm in Business & Politics, global climate change, media, television, united states by TreeHugger
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As of late, Fox News has been particularly egregious in it's never-ending quest to sew doubt about the unequivocal scientific consensus that humans are causing the climate to warm -- see
the SpongeBob SquarePants debacle, the
moon volcano proof, the heat index nonsense, the list goes on. But this one takes the cake: ...
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8:57 am in botanical, composting, do it yourself, food, insects, permaculture, united states, zero waste by TreeHugger
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It made it into
this infographic on which composting method is best for you, but it's fair to say that grub composting—or the practice of disposing of organic waste by feeding it to black soldier fly larvae—is still relatively obscure. Yet, as I noted in my post on a
commercially available grub composter, this method gets rid of veggie ...
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10:20 am in Business & Politics, natural gas, pollution, united states by TreeHugger
More on the benefits of shale gas as touted by
fracking companies being overstated: According to new independent analysis, published in
The Oil Drum, of extent of the US' shale gas reserves and the economics of extracting those finds that "industry reserves are over-stated by at least 100 percent".
Furthermore, the analysis raises questions about the economic viability of many fracking projects, stating, "Despite impressive production...
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8:00 am in Business & Politics, california, carbon emissions, carbon footprints, economics, global climate change, united states by TreeHugger
While there was some
uncertainty over the status of cap and trade in California back in May, the largest State in the US is only months away from potentially adopting a hugely comprehensive cap and trade bill. Of course
Tea Partiers will protest the creeping conspiracy to enforce an inhabitable planet on God-fearing patriots, but the fact is that climate science is not going away, and neither are the dire problems that it warns of. Carbon limitatio...
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Global warming is a hoax whipped up by the media -- and so are the very laws of thermodynamics. So sayeth Stephen Colbert, in this supremely amusing segment on the latest in brain-dead global warming denial:
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