Journals Investigate Climate Denier; Researchers Call for Oilsands Moratorium; Humans Causing Earthquakes

(Before It's News)

Scientific Journals investigate climate skeptic author’s ties to fossil fuel firm as new allegations arise. A half-dozen academic journals are investigating allegations that aerospace engineer Willie Wei-Hock Soon failed to disclose financial ties to a fossil fuel company in papers they published.

Researchers’ open letter calls for moratorium on new oilsands projects. More than 100 scientists and economists from Canada and the U.S. made an unprecedented call Wednesday for a halt to new projects in the oilsands until carbon emissions can be reduced.

Yes, humans really are causing earthquakes — but not how you think. A new paper in Seismological Research Letters describes what’s causing the ground to shake and what to do about it.

• John Muir, Alaska, and A Tree Mountain Chronology
• Russian Birch Climate Reconstruction- Part 2
• The longest cell in Andy Farke
• The SolidSmack Weekend Reader | Week 24.15
• Catalia Health Gets $1.25 Million From Khosla Ventures For Its Healthcare Robot
• Flipper size in Mesozoic Enaliosaurs.
• Duqu 2.0 Makes Other Malware Look Clunky
• Rovio brings the pigs and birds global in match 3 title RPG ‘Angry Birds Fight’
• Dear Public Diary
• How Beach Cleanups Help Keep Microplastics out of the Garbage Patches