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Changing the Climate for Peer Review
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
1.19.2010
In what has come to be called “Climategate,” emails hacked from a server at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia were leaked online in November 2009. These emails among prominent climate scientists included evidence that some have been strategizing to abuse the peer-review process to keep out dissenting research.
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Solutions for California Water Woes
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
10.20.2009
Last week, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called state legislators into a special session to hammer out the details of proposed water legislation. The proposal could include a bond measure of $9.4 billion or more, and would ideally address the highly contentious water allocations and restrictions in the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta. With so much at stake, it’s important that California gets this right.
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Big Brother Wants Your Compost – Or Else
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
9.17.2009
In October, San Francisco’s newest garbage management law goes into effect, potentially fining residents up to $100 per violation – businesses up to $500 – for failing to separate compostable garbage from their trash. Fines can also be incurred if garbage collectors notice an individual is not producing enough compost – at least a cubic yard of compostable waste each week.
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Climate Modeling is Far From a Precise Science
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
8.18.2009
A recent study of paleoclimate, the results of which appear in the August issue of Nature Geoscience, finds that today’s climate models do not accurately predict the most similar previous episode of climate warming in the geologic record. While this should not cast doubt on the value of climate models in tools to analyze drivers and projections of climate change, the study does point out that our understanding of climate dynamics remains imperfect.
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California Counts the Cost on Climate Change Legislation
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
7.21.2009
Last week, an investment management and advisory firm comprised of professors from California State University, Sacramento, released a report attempting to estimate the costs to small businesses – and therefore to California’s economy – of implementing Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
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Taxpayer Cash for Environmental Clunkers
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
6.16.2009
Earlier this month the House approved a measure that would give consumers up to $4500 to dump their gas guzzlers and buy a newer and more fuel efficient vehicle. Despite widespread support, this “cash for clunkers” program has its problems, and so do other environmental regulations coming out of Washington.
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How Government Botches Biofuels
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
5.19.2009
Within the last five years, concern over both global climate change and the economic and national security implications of U.S. oil consumption has created an interest in alternate sources of liquid fuel, namely, “biofuels” derived from agricultural crops. What began as an exciting possibility has unfortunately become an example of how well-intentioned but ill-conceived policy can stand in the way of other, perhaps better, ideas.
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Agriculture and the Environment Are Not Opposing Forces
Envronmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
4.21.2009
Recently, thousands of farm workers and their supporters hit the road in California’s Central Valley to raise awareness of water shortages in the region that are threatening the livelihoods and communities that rely heavily on irrigated crops. The farmers’ most controversial target, arguably, is the Delta smelt.
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