Common Science

With all of the critical economic and environmental challenges we face in the world and in North Carolina today, we no longer have the luxury of tolerating the foolish, inefficient and unnecessary ban of growing industrial hemp....

“He arrives with . . . the view that global warming is still an open question.” I did not intend to start 2013 with a column about global warming.  However, when I was confronted with the above quote from the new North Carolina...

Year two of Common Science has come to a close. Thanks for your support, you interesting questions and comments and your Facebook “Likes.” The year began with a four-part series called Chapelboro 2050 and finished with the...

Peruse any recent media report on the need for economic development, be it local, state, or national, and you will almost certainly find a call for the creation of more manufacturing jobs.  Unfortunately, after expressing the...

My plan to write a column about methane hydrate has now blossomed into a four part series on global warming and the future of the plant.  Part I covered the science of methane hydrate.  Part II explained the reasons why we are...

“Berkeley is Berkeley but Cal Tech is Cal Tech” – Hamadri Das (1)   Want to win a Nobel Prize and also go down in history as the greatest inventor of the 21st century?  Then find the breakthrough that makes artificial...

I’ll be posting my regular weekly column Sunday evening as usual, but something caught my eye earlier today. Hence this mid-week “flash post”. My column on October 7, “Why This is an Important Year to Get your Flu Shot”, laid...

The hodgepodge of information available on global warming and climate change can be bewildering, sometimes intentionally so.  Let me see if I can clear away some of the clutter and boil it down to a couple of numbers that you...

In the coming months and years, you will be seeing more and more news stories about methane hydrate.  Some will claim that it is the energy source of the future while others will warn that it will bring about the end of...

Many of my columns have contained critiques of public policy decisions made by our leaders in the areas of energy production, agriculture, and environmental protection.  The decisions made by our leaders, as driven by public...