Here are some resources from the Usenet group sci.environment. They are dated, but still useful.

FAQs and other information sources

Robert Parson's FAQ on stratospheric ozone depletion.

Bruce Hamilton's FAQ on gasoline.

Alan McGowen's articles on basic ecology.

Jan Schloerer's articles on climate change, including climate change basics, a climate change reading list, a piece on CO2 rise, on Methane: record and budget, and one called Glacial Tropics: Warm or Cool?.

Robert Grumbine's FAQ on Sea Level - Catastrophic Considerations.

Torsten Brinch's FAQ on ozone at ground level.

And William Connolley's page on whether scientists really predicted an ice age in the 70's.

FAQlets

What did Stephen H. Schneider really say in his oft repeated quote? See the full version without any deletions.

Is CO2 really a greenhouse gas? Try some breaking news on the subject contributed by Robert Grumbine.

Critiques

Sci.environment posters often critique books or articles written on environmental issues.

A critique of 21st Century Science and Technology magazine by Robert Parson.

A critique of John McCarthy's progress Web page.

A critique of Thomas Gale Moore's paper on health and amenity effects of global warming.

A critique of Jack Barrett's work on CO2 in connection with the European Science and Environment Forum ( ESEF).

Here are extensive critiques of Thomas Gale Moore's article on benefits of global warming.

Rich Puchalsky's critique of cost/benefit analysis (CBA) as used in a CBO study on the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Robert Parson and Micheal Tobis critiqued Dixy Lee Ray's book Environmental Overkill on ozone depletion and global warming respectively.

Although it was not written by a sci.env poster per se, an EDF critique of Gregg Easterbrook's A Moment On the Earth was discussed on sci.environment.

Micheal Tobis also critiqued Al Gore's book Earth In The Balance.

Julian Simon's book The Ultimate Resource was reviewed by another non-sci-environment-poster, Herman Daly.

old sci.env regulars

These posts are from sci.environment's glory days, before the number of right-wing zealots drove signal-to-noise ratio so low as to make the group unreadable. Sci.environment's sense of community was expressed, at that time, by two long humorous posts that assigned weapons to each regular and had each regular adopt an animal.


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