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January 18, 2012

Michael Mann, author of "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" on Up With Chris Hayes

Michael E. Mann, author of the forthcoming The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, was recently on Up With Chris Hayes to discuss climate warming and its deniers. Michael E. Mann suggests that what we...

December 14, 2011

Michael Mann — A Look Into Our Climate: Past To Present To Future

The following video features Michael Mann, author of the forthcoming The Hockey Stick: Dispatches from the Front Lines. In the talk given at a TEDx event, Mann explains the scientific data pointing to global warming.

November 4, 2011

James Powell: Is There a Case Against Human Caused Global Warming in the Peer-Reviewed Literature?

On Skeptical Science: Getting Skeptical About Global Warming Skepticism, James Powell, author of The Inquisition of Climate Science, is beginning a study of the peer-reviewed articles that “take a negative or explicitly doubtful position on human-caused global warming”. Part of...

September 22, 2011

James Powell: Science Denialism Is Not Free, Part II

“Science denial, when projected from the level of the state, can cost millions, even scores of millions, of lives.”—James Powell This the second part of James Powell’s series on science denialism. You can read the first post here. James Powell...

September 20, 2011

James L. Powell Discusses The Inquisition of Climate Science on Climate Progress

Earlier this year, James Powell, author of The Inquisition of Climate Science , was interviewed by Climate Progress. (You can listen to the interview here.) In the interview, Powell discusses the book and the ways in which the “debate” about...

September 19, 2011

James Powell: Science Denial Is Not Free

“The American people … should remember that science denial is not free. History teaches us that it can bear a heavy cost in dollars and in human lives.”—James Powell The following post is from James Powell, author of The Inquisition...

August 24, 2011

Michael Mann, The Hockey Stick, and the Vindication of Climate Science

Michael Mann, author of the forthcoming The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (due out in Spring 2012), has become a target of anti-science activists and global warming deniers. As reported by Joe Romm’s Climate...

August 15, 2011

James Powell: How We Know Global Warning Is True

James L. Powell, author of The Inquisition of Climate Science, prepared a video of showing how scientists know that global warming is true. The video demonstrates and explains the evidence. Powell also offers a series of slides that explains the...

July 11, 2011

The Trees of Central Park

Edward Barnard, author of New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area, recently teamed up with the birder Ken Chaya to produce a map of nearly every tree in Central Park. Their efforts were recently the subject...

November 12, 2010

The Green Life recommends Whaling in Japan: Power, Politics, and Diplomacy

Recently the Sierra Club’s blog, The Green Life, ran a round-up of new recommended books on environmental governance. Jun Morikawa’s excellent new study of the politics of Japan’s whaling industry, Whaling in Japan: Power, Politics, and Diplomacy was listed and...

October 27, 2010

Interviews with and talks by James Rodger Fleming, author of "Fixing the Sky"

James Rodger Fleming, author of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control, was recently interviewed by both ABC Radio’s Late Night Live as well as New Books in History. In both interviews, Fleming talks about the...

September 22, 2010

James Fleming takes the page 99 test and is featured in the American Scholar

James Fleming author of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate, explains what page 99 of his book does and does not reveal about his work: Page 99 of Fixing the Sky tells two stories of rain...

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