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Farmers vs. scientists on the debate over climate change
Posted by Environmental News Network: Purdue University on November 16th, 2014
Environmental News Network: Crop producers and scientists hold deeply different views on climate change and its possible causes, a study by Purdue and Iowa State universities shows. Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011-2012 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both. More than 90 percent of...
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Science Offers New View of Hopes for Human Survival
Posted by Climate News Network: Tim Radford on November 16th, 2014
Climate News Network: Two American scientists have just sought to find a way of answering the ultimate global warming question: how long can any species last once it has discovered how to exploit fossil fuels and change the conditions under which it first evolved?
In doing so, they have sidestepped the great challenge of astrobiology. This is that all thinking about life in the universe is handicapped by a simple problem: because there is only one so-far identified instance of life in the universe, it is impossible...
Cuomo can check Pennsylvania town to see fracking debate in real life
Posted by NY Daily News: None Given on November 16th, 2014
NY Daily News: As he weighs perhaps the most contentious decision of his administration, whether to allow drilling for natural gas upstate, Gov. Cuomo need look only a few miles south of New York’s border to see the fierce debate playing out in real time.
Here in this old industrial town and surrounding Bradford County, the benefits of fracking -- a controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale rock underground -- are clear.
Concrete well pads, drill rigs and pipelines are spread across the hills...