Science

  • Great Salt Lake May Dry Up In Five Years

    “Emergency measures [are] needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from [an] ongoing collapse,” according to a recent study released by a large group of universities and environmental groups.“If this loss rate continues, the lake as we know it is on track to disappear in five years,” the report flatly declared.“Without a dramatic increase in water flow to the lake in 2023 and 2024, its disappearance could cause immense damage to Utah’s public health, environment, and economy. This briefing provides background and recommends emergency measures,” continued the report.The study is quite clear on what caused the precipitous decline.“Saline lakes are highly…

  • EPA Clean Water In Danger

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 14th, 2014It’s getting harder to find clean water in America. “State officials…reported that pollutants had been reduced in many waters, but few impaired water bodies…

  • Global Warming Gases Reach Record

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 7th, 2013In 2012, the concentration of gases placed in the atmosphere which scientists identify as the chief cause forglobal warming rose to an all-time recorded…

  • Environment Hydraulic Fracturing

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 23, 2013The Congressional Research Service recently released a very informative, short study on such unconventional gas and oil production methods as hydraulic fracturing and directional…

  • Global Warming And The Melting Arctic

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 10th, 2013Global warming has created a series of conditions in the Arctic which could make the area a national securityconcern, quietly acknowledges a recent congressional…

  • Us Science And Engineering Workforce

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 13th, 2013Is the U.S. suffering from a shortage of ‘home-grown’ scientists and engineers? That was the focus of a federalstudy released last week.It’s a very…

  • Humans To Blame For Global Warming

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 31st, 2011The proof is in: Global warming is all too real and we human beings are to blame, revealed a study released lastmonth by the…

  • Spies Need To Study Global Warming

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 21st, 2011America’s spy network needs a group that can investigate the full impacts of global warming in a straightforward and public manner, stated a recent…

  • Doctor Works To End Greed In Medicine

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 13th, 2011 Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are once again in Washington, DC.Are they demanding another bailout from their paid errand boys, our Washington politicians?…

  • Dna Databanking

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 15th, 2011″Observers are now raising questions about the Fourth Amendment consistency of using [DNA] databases fornon-forensic purposes and for familial searching—that is, using the…databases to…

  • Renewable Energy Costs

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 12th, 2011By 2050, renewable fuels such as solar or wind power will become significantly cheaper thanks to expectedtechnological advances, a draft United Nations study recently…

  • GOP Hides Federal Health Care Use

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 6th, 2011On Wednesday, the newly-minted GOP-run U.S. House of Representatives passed a rules package intended to establish how the legislature will operate this year.But perhaps…

  • Artic Exploitation

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 29th, 2010Ever wonder why business people and their conservative cronies continually deny the obvious realities of global warming and attendant climate change? Perhaps their wishful…

  • Greenhouse Gases

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 1st, 2010Concentrated amounts of the major greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere now are at their highest level inindustrial times, the United Nations’ weather agency declared…

  • No Standards For Digital Medical Files

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 5th, 2010For over 20 years, technology companies have fought every attempt to create a stronger democratic oversightof digital health record systems. And the Obama Administration…

  • Depleted Uranium Iraq

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 23rd, 2010The apparent spike in cancer and infant mortality rates for Fallujah, Iraq since 2005 should make everyonereconsider the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) in…

  • Toxic Chemical Oversight Failing

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 22nd, 2010The federal agency charged with investigating possible community exposures to toxic chemicals is failing at its job, according to a congressional testimony released on…

  • Health Insurance Problem

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 20th, 2010A Congressional Research Service study released in November 2009 reveals that the U.S. insurance industryis directly responsible for much of the explosion in America’s…

  • FDA Lacks Oversight

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 4th, 2010The federal agency that oversees public health barely monitors its own investigative activities, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).…

  • Drug Prices

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 19th, 2010In these days of slowed but continued economic depression, it’s good to discover such little-knowngovernment studies as the one quietly released in December 2009…

  • Us Health Care

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 12th, 2009As the U.S. Congress works to finalize its health care reform legislation, it must be pointed out that the House and Senate bills fail…

  • Us Health Care Costs

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 7th, 2010 The most current falsehood floating around the U.S. health care debate appears to be the oldest typical neo-conservative sophism against change. It is…

  • Senators Health Care Poll

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 16th, 2009The U.S. public now sees Congressional plans to change America’s health-care system as little more than adisaster which can only create higher medical costs…

  • Senators Public Option

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 11th, 2009Recently have the feeling you’ve been cheated?No doubt that notion has been buzzing about your mind the last few days, if you’re among the…