
Carbon-Reduction Plans Rely on Tech That Doesn’t Exist
Instead of scaling up renewable energy, researchers promote unproved ideas
Instead of scaling up renewable energy, researchers promote unproved ideas
Greenhouse gas emissions from research damage climate
Doctors may accept spurious claims about medical treatments, and invalid studies wrongly influence public policy
Academics too often use intellectual attainment to excuse abusive behavior. That needs to stop
Data show alarming declines in wildlife but also point to ways to save it
People should be skeptical of big claims based on only one study and dig a little deeper
These plants take too long to build and bring online, and we don’t have that much time
Our climate problem is big, but a person’s diet change can make an impact
Women are investigating critical climate crisis problems such as the stability of giant ice sheets
Two physicists object to a Scientific American essay calling for an end to one climate report. A science historian counters that the report has done its job
It’s time to redirect your major focus to how we deal with the problem
Jargon is appropriate when you’re speaking with colleagues, but it’s a turnoff for the rest of us
Unfortunately, its strongest proponent was, which tainted its reception
Researchers cite studies that can’t be replicated weirdly often
It can’t supply absolute truths about the world, but it brings us steadily closer
GOP officials have been denigrating the government, including government scientists, for decades
His track record on getting climate science right is extremely poor
Our instincts are unreliable about which problems are easy to solve and which are hard
Value neutrality among researchers is a myth that hurts the public trust of science
The failure of the U.S. to respond appropriately to the pandemic could have been predicted if anyone had bothered to ask social scientists
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