EPA's Air Chief Gina McCarthy Admits Defeat: Climate debate 'got away from us' -- We 'allowed climate science deniers to get the upper hand' -- Time to 'rethink' message | Climate Depot

EPA's top air official is dismayed by the traction climate science deniers have gotten on Capitol Hill and in public debate, and she thinks it's time for environmental advocates to rethink their message.

“I think the biggest disappointment we have is just how badly we have let the arguments about the science get away from us and allowed science climate science deniers to get the upper hand here,” EPA air chief Gina McCarthy said Monday in an interview with WNYC radio.

Because You Asked For It: A ‘Captain Planet’ Live-Action Movie | Film School Rejects

Of course, the elephant in the room is that this movie comes at a time where man-made global warming is still being discussed in the public square. Producer Susan Montford will also be working to bring the movie to theaters, and she had this to say: “With the earthquakes, tornadoes, melting icebergs and all the other problems threatening the world right now, Earth really needs her greatest defender.”

Words fail. What actor will they convince to cover himself in body paint for the role? My vote is for Step By Step‘s Sasha Mitchell because 1) his awesome flat top 2) his fighting skills and 3) he was last relevant when Captain Planet was last relevant.

USDA tracks how dairy farms [cause bad weather]

ARS soil scientist April Leytem led the year-long project, which involved monitoring the emissions of ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide from a commercial dairy with 10,000 milk cows in southern Idaho. The facility had 20 open-lot pens, two milking parlors, a hospital barn, a maternity barn, a manure solid separator, a 25-acre wastewater storage pond and a 25-acre compost yard.
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“Dairy producers have been very supportive of this work,” Ms. Leytem says.