Question: For the first time in its history, Scientific American is endorsing a candidate for the U.S. presidency. In what year was the magazine first published? Who was president at the time? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
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Understanding the Extent of Climate Change
Here’s a great piece of animation on climate change for people whose learning styles favor graphics. Scientific American has done a great job with this subject for many years. As you watch, keep in mind that the U.S. is vigorously …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Coal–The Gift That Keeps Giving
Question: According to Scientific American, which type of power plant leaves more radioactive waste per MWh: a nuclear plant or a coal-fired power plant?
Why Rural Alaska Is Integrating Lots of Renewable Energy
According to this article in Scientific American called What Rural Alaska Can Teach the World about Renewable Energy, “Remote communities have integrated renewables into their diesel-based power grids with more success than anywhere else.”
Kudos! “Scientific American” Not Shy About Covering Trump’s Continuing Assault on the Environment
Here’s an article in Scientific American that lays out the basis on which one of Trump’s recent executive orders will result in more water pollution by undermining the 42-year-old Clean Water Act. The mechanism at work here is restricting the …
Climate Leadership: China Rises, U.S. Falls
Scientific American celebrates its 170th anniversary this year; it’s the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States. And just think of what science was like in the 1840s: long before the advent of germ theory, modern physics, even the …
Scientific American: The Very Name Carries a Significant Level of Optimism
Today is the 171st anniversary of the first publication of “Scientific American.” The very name of the magazine is hopeful, when you think about it. It’s always been a good time to encourage Americans to be scientific in thinking and behavior. …
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Scientific American, Of All Magazines, Weighs In On Donald Trump
It’s hardly news that Americans show a profound lack of interest in and respect for science, and that this is worrisome to everyone who understands the depths to which this has the capacity to take us. Exactly how this …
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In This Month’s Scientific American: "The Carbon Capture Fallacy"
I don’t yet have access to the full version of the article whose “teasers” are here, but I infer from its title that its reasoning is consistent with the position that Scientific American has taken on CCS (carbon capture and …
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