Ridiculous US climate debate hinders real action.

Feb 18, 2009

Today the group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) published a piece entitled “Columnist’s climate change denial distorts reality” in response to a recent Washington Post column (here) by George Will, noting multiple distortions regarding...

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Detailed list of spending in the federal stimulus bill.

Feb 13, 2009

From Probublica.org, a detailed budget. Looks like the House will pass this today pretty much in this form. A couple of highlights: Nearly $16 billion for Pell grants and $3 billion for National Science Foundation programs. I’m very disappointed in the...

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River restoration funding in the stimulus bill.

Feb 4, 2009

From American Rivers on passage of the stimulus bill (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) in the House last week: H.R. 1 includes $2 billion for drinking water under the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and $6 billion for clean water under the Clean...

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Welcome President Obama, welcome back science.

Jan 21, 2009

First, my favorite photo of the day. And a paragraph from Obama’s speech that spoke to me: For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act – not only to create new jobs, but to...

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More bad science.

Jan 1, 2009

While we’re on the topic, I’m a regular reader of Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog. He has an especially good year in review post up now. Britain’s Ben Goldacre is a medical doctor who has written the weekly Bad Science column in the Guardian...

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