Here in California, Governor Brown has mandated cutbacks in water usage in response to a three-year drought, while ignoring the far more important causes of the shortage -- cheap, below-market water prices especially for politically favored groups.
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Recent revelations of heavily policy-driven or even falsified science have raised concern in the general public, but especially in the scientific community itself. It's not purely a question of political or commercial interference either (as is often claimed when it comes to e.g. climate research) — scientists th...(Read more...)
