Naomi Oreskes’ upcoming book, Merchants of Doubt, explains “the troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts to advance a political and economic agenda.”

The prolific UC San Diego professor discusses the history of both our understanding of human-caused global warming and the anti-science disinformation campaign in this terrific talk from last week:

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James Cameron: “We need to mobilize like we did during World War II” to fight global warming. The threat to our country and children is “that severe.”

I’m very interested in your thoughts on Avatar.

Here are mine on the must-see movie — but flawed eco-pic — and the controversies surrounding it:

[Mild spoiler alert, I suppose, but then if you can't figure out how this movie is going to end, well, you have led a very sheltered life.]

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Senators versus the species formerly known as homo sapiens sapiens:

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Energy efficiency retrofits can provide a real help for construction unemployment explains CAP’s Bracken Hendricks, who was the founding Executive Director of the Apollo Alliance, in this repost.

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