Richard Tol | 28 Jan 2015 Things used to be simple. The Church taught how the world worked and how to behave. The positive and the normative were united. The Enlightenment put an end to that. We are supposed to follow evidence rather than dogma. In the early days, an intelligent person could comprehend all…
GWPF | 8 Jan 2015 It is perhaps the world’s most famous environmental parable. A settler on Easter Island stood beside the island’s last tree. He or she looked around the treeless horizon, every one of those trees removed by man, and chopped it down anyway. Afterwards, the island died — the nutrients washed away,…
GWPF | 4 Dec 2014 Research blaming pesticides for the decline in honeybees has been called into question by a leaked note suggesting that scientists had decided in advance to seek evidence supporting a ban on the chemicals. The private note records a discussion in 2010 between four scientists about how to persuade regulators to…
Daily Mail Reporter 5 Nov 2013 Part of the over one million tons of debris dispersed in the Pacific, the trash island is located northeast of the Hawaiian Islands The first documented tsunami debris to reach California arrived in April 2013 Boats, a dock, a soccer ball, and motorcycle have all been identified on the West…