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Carolyn Raffensperger Information about trends can be important scientific evidence, according to Amy Kyle, a scientist at Berkeley. In regulatory debates, the regulated industries want to limit the relevant evidence to studies that “prove” cause and effect. This means that information, like trends can be excluded. Trends indicate a change in pattern over time. This week, [...] By Nancy Myers I receive daily email invitations to put my name to an appeal: Reform health care. Slow climate change. End poverty. Save a species. Easy enough, just hit return. You don’t even have to give money although you are always asked. I’ve been calling this “slacktivism” for some time and thought I may have invented the [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger Climate change is driving remarkable innovation and imagination. Every day brings new information about visionary technologies and science that can slow the increase in atmospheric carbon thereby givng the Earth and future generations a sporting chance. There are some corresponding innovations in the law that will enable us to carry out our ethical [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger On Saturday I sat on a straw bale in the front yard of the Garst Farm in Coon Rapids Iowa and listened to the geneticist Wes Jackson give a short history of Russian agricultural science. The occasion was a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to Roswell Garst, an [...] |
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