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Tweet You know how the world is constantly hedging on the issue of global warming, calling for more discussion and encouraging dissenting scientific opinions even in the midst of potentially damning consequences? You know how climate change deniers accuse those who accept dominant science of trying to incite panic? Well, maybe now mainstream scientists [...]
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Tweet Being the culmination of a three-year project, researchers at Arizona State University and Purdue University have created what will almost certainly prove to be an invaluable tool in monitoring and controlling greenhouse gas emissions well into the future. That tool is a piece of software called Hestia, which has already been applied to [...]
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Tweet Doubtless, you’ve heard Republican House Representative Todd Akin’s soundbite in which he asserted that cases of “legitimate rape” rarely lead to pregnancy because, “from what he understood from doctors,” the reproductive system has a magical ability to “shut that whole thing down.” But did you also know that Rep. Akin sits on the House [...]
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Tweet Last month, I wrote about the intersections of the United States’ problems with ongoing drought, the likely future effects of global warming, and the institutional lack of biodiversity in crop production. Now well into August, drought is still plaguing large portions of the country, which is particularly worrying since a change in the weather [...]
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Tweet In my very first Green Earth News post some sixteen months ago, I covered the preliminary findings of Dr. Richard Muller’s Berkley Earth Surface Temperature project, and used it to highlight the crucial difference between scientific skepticism and trenchant denial. Dr. Muller began his study on the hypothesis that dominant climate science was riddled [...]
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Tweet We have reported in the past on scientific research that made it more feasible to use bamboo for the production of liquid biofuels. That possibility is now being aggressively pursued in Mississippi, where the Mississippi Development Authority is providing funding to the state’s universities for research in support of the KiOR, Inc. facilities there. [...]
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Tweet The primary talking point of global warming denial essentially boils down to little more than a reminder that the global climate has always existed. Self-described skeptics tend to use the world “cyclical” with monotonous regularity when describing the overall character of climatic changes. Weather patterns, they say, have always changed in every time and [...]
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Tweet In a development that should come as a surprise to absolutely no one who’s paying any attention, Richard Muller of UC Berkley, in testimony before House Republicans at the end of March, stated that his preliminary findings upheld the scientific consensus that the surface temperature of the Earth has risen about 0.8 of a [...]
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Tweet From a childhood fascination to an emerging research study, PhD candidate Tarannum Afrin of Deakin’s Center for Materials and Fibre Innovation in Australia is working to discover the property that gives bamboo it’s UV protective properties. Growing up, Afrin was surrounded by bamboo gardens and heard much about the medicinal properties of bamboo used [...]
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Tweet Who’s misleading who in this “environmentally friendly” game of cat and mouse? While the Federal Trade Commission and other such agencies focus their efforts on exploiting companies for “alleged” misleading environmental claims, it might shock you to know that in the world of textiles…the consumer is, in fact, the energy consumption machine. So get [...]
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Tweet As many of you are aware, the Federal Trade Commission has made the allegation that bamboo fabric (viscose from bamboo) does not retain any antimicrobial properties that are prevalent in the plant itself. They state this without providing any scientific evidence to back it up. However, there have been numerous studies, scientific test results [...]
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Tweet What is fabric hand? Fabric hand is one of the essential parameters characterizing garments’ appearance and quality. Or, to put it in lay terms, you know that favorite t-shirt of yours that you have had for years and washed over 100 times to make it super, ultra soft? That soft touch you so love [...]
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Tweet Can Rayon Really Save Your Life? The FTC would have you believe that “rayon from bamboo” is the same quality fabric as “traditional rayon” due to its similar process. The FTC would also have you believe that companies have been misrepresenting this fabric by calling it bamboo or fiber from bamboo rather than rayon [...]
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