Science and Advocacy | Climate Skeptic

...some advocates for women’s health tried to pressure The Lancet into delaying publication of the new findings, fearing that good news would detract from the urgency of their cause

Southampton News - CO2 is tagged as culprit; Shellfish may be latest victims

Hundreds of scientists and experts from dozens of organizations around the Northeast have spent the last 10 years trying to figure out why shellfish populations on the East End of Long Island have not rebounded since being decimated by “brown tide” in huge numbers in the 1980s and 1990s.

Stephanie Talmage, a doctoral candidate at the Stony Brook University School of Atmospheric and Marine Science, thinks she and her professor might finally have the answer.

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

Today I accidentally stepped on a snail
on the sidewalk in front of our house.
And I thought, I too am like that snail.
I build a defensive wall around myself, a "shell" if you will.
But my shell isn't made out of a hard, protective substance.
Mine is made out of tin foil and paper bags.

Youth, ‘Fossils’ and Planetary Progress - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

I’ve begun focusing on younger audiences for many reasons, one being a growing realization that many adults I’ve met in 20 years of covering global warming have been locked into rigid views of the world that distort how they absorb what scientists are saying—with some grown-ups seeing utter unfolding catastrophe and others aggressively rejecting any reason for concern or action. In most cases, those reactions were more a function of belief than data.  [How, exactly, does Andy know this?]