New Luddite Revolt Targets Driverless Cars
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s some great Atrios bait today: The assailant slipped out of a park around noon one day in October, zeroing in on his target, which was idling at a nearby intersection — a self-driving van operated by Waymo, the driverless-car company spun out of Google.…
Elizabeth Warren Is Running for President
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2018 Was a Pretty Good Year For Climate Change
Does this look scary to you? It should. But to most people, it’s just another confusing chart showing something or other that they don’t really get.NASA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scottish science-fiction author Charlie Stross says 2018 was a truly godawful year: I am looking for any silver linings…
Give It Up. Nothing Good Happened in 2018.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As 2018 finally draws to a close, I suppose it’s time to reflect on the past year, both good and bad. I’ve tried to do this. Not too hard, I admit, but I tried. Sadly, I came up pretty empty-handed. I mean, no close family…
Inside the Bill That Set the “Strongest Clean Energy Requirement in the Nation”
Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Washington, DC is positioning itself on the climate policy fast track. The District of Columbia city council voted unanimously last week to approve an expansive climate bill requiring utility providers to generate 100 percent of their energy supply from renewable sources by…
The Worst Anti-Science BS of 2018
Donald Trump has a “natural instinct for science.”Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was a banner year in the war on science, as politicians, media figures, and celebrities used their platforms to promote pseudoscience and interfere with evidence-based policies. Here are five of the most egregious examples. And…