Category Archives: Ocean Acidification

EPA Director Scott Pruitt vs. the League of Scientists

Update:  Myron Ebell was on the Trump Transition Team to pick the EPA director.  The nominee for Director is now Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general.   Pruitt calls himself the “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda”.   With his detailed knowledge … Continue reading

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Former Secretary of Energy Steven Chu Gives the Reines Lecture at UC Irvine

The 2016 Reines Lecture at UCI by Former Secretary of Energy Steven Chu This is sort of a slide by slide outline of Physics Nobel Laureate Steven Chu’s Lecture at UC Irvine. Not only was the very large Barclay auditorium … Continue reading

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Climate Denier Senate Committee Chairs are Ignoring Effects of Global Warming on Their Own States

Climate Denier Senate Committee Chairs are Ignoring Effects of Global Warming on Their Own States.  We illustrate their denial attitudes and excuses, and just scratch the surface on climate effects in their own states that will be worsened by increased … Continue reading

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Comparison of Greenhouse Warming for Leaked Methane versus CO2 from Coal

  There are two popular comparisons of greenhouse gas effects of leaked methane versus CO2 from burning fossil fuel.  They involve 20 or 100 year periods, and comparison of the gasses for the same weight. Neither time period has a … Continue reading

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Ocean Acidification Conference by the Newkirk Center, May 3, 2013

Toward a Sustainable 21st Century Ocean Acidification There was a great one day conference on Ocean Acidification (OA) at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering next the UC Irvine.  The speakers were the major researchers … Continue reading

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