The New York Tropical Deforestation-Free Procurement Act would make New York the first state to seriously tackle global deforestation, a major driver of our planet’s rapid warming.
Vital forest is cleared every day, with major climate effects. Satellites have revolutionized the measurement of the problem, but what can we do about it? Imagine if France, Germany, and Spain were completely blanketed in forests and then all those trees were quickly chopped down. That’s nearly
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It s always a special pleasure to note an article including Skeptical Science s founder John Cook in the author roster. Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy includes not only Cook as a collaborator but also a cast of other familiar authorities on human cognition in connection with climate science, in particlar how our mental equipment struggles with following a continuous thread of truth through a tangled knot of disconnected confusion in the form of misinformation. We re not necessarily very good thinkers in the best of circumstances. We often fail to think clearly when we re in the presence of misinformation or synthetic ignorance, especially when it s calculated and crafted exactly for the purpose of paralyzing competent thinking. In their abstract the authors note Democracy relies on a shared body of knowledge among citizens, for example trust in elections and reliable knowledge to inform policy-relevant debate. One can extend that th
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Imagine if France, Germany, and Spain were completely blanketed in forests - and then all those trees were quickly chopped down. That s nearly the amount of deforestation that occurred globally betw
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