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“Clean” coal’s dirty secrets

By Peter Montague

Watch Clean Coal and the PurGen Project to learn about the hare-brained scheme in Linden, NJ to make coal “clean.”

During the past 10 years, a worldwide scientific consensus has developed that global warming is real and mainly caused by humans burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas).

The obvious solution is to wean ourselves [...]

Precautionary principle ad hoc

By Nancy Myers

I run across a lot of ad hoc definitions of the precautionary principle when I’m putting together one of our publications, Rachel’s Precaution Reporter.

First let me make clear that the principle is no mystery. There are several official definitions of the precautionary principle—Principle 15 of the 1992 Rio declaration and the  more positive [...]

The Diagnosis of the Unknown Physician

By Carolyn Raffensperger

According to an old story told by Sun Tsu at the beginning of The Art of War, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which family member was the most skilled at medicine.  The famous physician, replied, “My eldest brother is the most skilled [...]