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- A Fresh Look at Oil’s Long Goodbye http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/a-fresh-look-at-oils-new-boom-time/ 48 comments
- Berkeley Physicist Confirms Global Warming http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/skeptic-talking-point-melts-away-as-an-inconvenient-physicist-confirms-warming/ 2 comments
- Under Trump, Will NASA’s Space Science Include Planet Earth? http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/under-trump-will-nasas-space-science-include-planet-earth/?_r=0 3 comments politics
- Donald J. Trump and three of his children were among the signatories on a Dec. 6, 2009, full-page advertisement in The New York Times calling for President Obama and Congress to act on climate change. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/a-climate-contradiction-joins-trumps-long-line-of-flip-flops/?&_r=0 4 comments politics
- Prospects for the Environment, and Environmentalism, Under President Trump http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/prospects-for-the-environment-and-environmentalism-under-president-trump/?_r=1 3 comments politics
- New Nepal death tolls, may hit 60K, that's crazy. Numbers way underestimated. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/dire-prospects-seen-when-the-full-nepal-earthquake-death-toll-is-tallied/?hp&action=click&pgtype=homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&wt.nav=c-column-top-span-region 5 comments worldnews
- An international group of scientists has proposed the date of the dawn of a new geological age in Earth history – the Age of the Anthropocene. Scientists identify July 16, 1945, as key time boundary in Earth history http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/researchers-propose-earths-anthropocene-age-of-humans-began-with-fallout-and-plastics/?smid=re-share 5 comments science
- Geologists: Earth's Anthropocene Age of Humans began ~1950, marked by fallout and plastics. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/researchers-propose-earths-anthropocene-age-of-humans-began-with-fallout-and-plastics/?module=blogpost-title&version=blog%20main&contentcollection=anthropocene&action=click&pgtype=blogs&region=body 13 comments science
- A Look at the ‘Shills,’ ‘Skeptics’ and ‘Hobbyists’ Lumped Together in Climate Denialism http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/a-look-at-the-shills-skeptics-and-hobbyists-lumped-together-in-climate-denialism/ 7 comments politics
- Experts Foresee No Detectable Health Impact from Fukushima Radiation http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/experts-foresee-no-detectable-health-impact-from-fukushima-radiation/?emc=eta1&_r=2 10 comments worldnews
- Google Science Fellows to Google: Don't be evil. Stop supporting climate denier Sen. Inhofe. "Not only does supporting Senator Inhofe go against Google’s core principles, the company also risks its reputation." http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/google-science-fellows-challenge-companys-support-for-inhof/?_r=0#more-50248 203 comments technology
- Google Science Fellows to Google: Don't be evil. Stop supporting climate denier Sen. Inhofe. "Not only does supporting Senator Inhofe go against Google’s core principles, the company also risks its reputation." http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/google-science-fellows-challenge-companys-support-for-inhof/?_r=0#more-50248 28 comments politics
- Experts Foresee No Detectable Health Impact from Fukushima Radiation http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/experts-foresee-no-detectable-health-impact-from-fukushima-radiation/ 3 comments worldnews
- An Earth Scientist Explores the Biggest Climate Threat: Fear http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/an-earth-scientist-explores-the-biggest-climate-threat-fear/?src=rechp 11 comments science
- New research shows that we’ve experienced almost the same range of temperature change since the beginning of the industrial revolution as over the previous 11,000 years of Earth history – but this change happened a lot more quickly. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/scientists-find-an-abrupt-warm-jog-after-a-very-long-cooling/ 15 comments science
- Giant squid captured alive on film for the first time. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/giant-squid-videotaped-for-the-first-time-in-its-deep-domain/?smid=tw-share 15 comments science
- When Taxpayers Pay People to Rebuild in Harm’s Way http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/when-taxpayers-pay-people-to-rebuild-in-harms-way/ 7 comments politics
- An intensively promoted and controversial French study claiming to find high tumor rates and early mortality in rats fed genetically modified corn and “safe” levels of the herbicide Roundup has been dismissed in a rare joint statement from France’s six scientific academies. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/six-french-science-academies-dismiss-study-finding-gm-corn-harmed-rats/ 198 comments science
- Should Candidates Talk About Climate Change? http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/should-candidates-talk-about-climate-change/ 4 comments politics
- This mind-bending report points to a prolonged period of rising oil production, particularly in the United States (for reasons laid out below), and a potential collapse in oil prices http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/a-fresh-look-at-oils-new-boom-time/ 8 comments technology
- "A meaningful response to global warming would be a fatal blow to free markets and capitalism." http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/naomi-kleins-inconvenient-climate-conclusions/ 12 comments politics
- What's Missing From Our 'Cognitive Toolkit'? http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/whats-missing-from-our-cognitive-toolkit/ 8 comments cogsci
- Remember the physicist who resigned from the APS and called AGW 'the biggest fraud'? Apparently he was concerned about global warming "by the accumulation of man-made gases, mainly CO2" back in the 90s. The question is why did his views change so much? http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/a-physicists-climate-complaints/ 17 comments science
- To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/fuel-taxes-must-rise-harvard-researchers-say/ 11 comments reddit.com
- [NYTimes] Inquiries Begin on Climate Files; Head of British Climate Unit Steps Aside http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/head-of-climate-unit-steps-down-pending-inquiry/ 4 comments reddit.com
- A Climate Scientist Who Engages the Skeptics http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/a-climate-scientist-on-climate-skeptics/? 9 comments science
- Limbaugh asks NYT environmental reporter to die on air. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/thought-experiments-on-sex-and-death/ 4 comments politics
- Are Condoms the Ultimate Green Technology? http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/the-ultimate-green-technology-condoms/ 4 comments politics
- The world most famous environmental scientist James E. Hansen (NASA) arrested ?!? http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/hansen-of-nasa-arrested-in-coal-country/ 66 comments science
- Warming Could Cut Population to 1 Billion: Good news—problem solved. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/scientist-warming-could-cut-population-to-1-billion/ 7 comments politics
- Is the Earth headed toward a permanent ice age? http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/will-next-ice-age-be-permanent/?ref=science 4 comments science
- Excelent Animation Shows How the North Pole Ice is Flushing Out to Sea and Not Melting - See the change from 1981 through 2007 http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/whats-really-up-with-north-pole-sea-ice/?hp 5 comments science
- Most Experts Foresee a Repeat, at Least, of 2007 Arctic Ice Loss http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/most-experts-foresee-a-repeat-at-least-of-2007-arctic-ice-loss/ 3 comments science
- $8.00, $10.00, or any other ridiculously priced gas will likely never happen because fuel can be made from CO2 and solf for less than $5.00 http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/federal-lab-says-it-can-harvest-fuel-from-air/ 7 comments reddit.com
- Earth 2050: Population Unknowable? http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/earth-2050-population-unknowable/ 2 comments science
- Los Alamos says it can manufacture gasoline from CO2 in the air at a price of $4.60 a gallon. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/federal-lab-says-it-can-harvest-fuel-from-air/index.html?ref=science 268 comments science
- Can We Uninvent Suburbia? http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/can-we-uninvent-suburbia/index.html?ex=1360386000&en=d882468463be4d22&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss 36 comments reddit.com
- President Bush declares war on Mr. Splashy Pants http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/the-white-house-and-the-whales/index.html?ex=1358226000&en=584f0e9d94142ce5&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss 49 comments reddit.com
- Interesting suggestion: Appoint a “legal guardian of future generations” to consider the impact of policy choices on citizens yet unborn. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/does-the-future-need-a-legal-guardian/index.html?hp 7 comments politics
- The Pentagon is closing down 3 of the 20 Norad early-warning radar sites in northern Alaska because the ground they’re built on is crumbling into the Arctic Ocean. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/cold-war-radar-taken-out-by-arctic-warming/ 3 comments reddit.com