Environment:
More than 400 baby penguins have been found dead on beaches in Brazil, hundreds of miles from their native habitats. It is not uncommon to find the occasional penguin (dead or not) wahsed by currents far to the north of where they normally live, the...
Posted on July 19, 2008 7:50 PM • 3 Comments •
Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy is neither documentary nor mockumentary. Maybe a bit of both and a lot of neither. But it is funny and relevant.
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Posted on July 15, 2008 5:01 AM • 10 Comments •
... Or just some kind of odd Internet Shenanigans. It turns out that if there is an organized effort to bias the discussion, it may be coming from the usual place ... the trolls... As I've been following the new energy blog on Sb, something...
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Posted on July 11, 2008 12:31 PM • 3 Comments •
Consider this question: Our oil supplies are down. And with rising concerns of global food supplies, the loudly touted ethanol now seems to be a no-go, too. So, in the coming years, what do you think will become the world's most viable alternative energy solution?...
Posted on July 9, 2008 9:00 AM • 1 Comments •
I find it hard to believe that the government has ignored the need for solar energy to the extent that it seems surprised that anyone wants to build new solar plants. From the New York Times: Faced with a surge in the number of proposed...
Posted on June 30, 2008 6:39 PM • 8 Comments •
NASA's JPL has a new web site which focuses on surface conditions on one specific planet: The Earth. It has a Sea Level Viewer which is basically a very fancy menu for a number of multi-media presentations, and a list of current or proposed missions....
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Posted on June 23, 2008 7:21 PM • 2 Comments •
Impacts from warming are evident in satellite images showing that lakes in Siberia disappearing as the permafrost thaws and lake water drains deeper into the ground. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory A new study led by NASA links anthropogenic climate change to a wide range...
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Posted on May 18, 2008 10:41 AM • 4 Comments •
In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it's putting the entire planet...
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Posted on May 15, 2008 6:38 PM • 0 Comments •
In this May 1, 2008, visible image from NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft, Cyclone Nargis is ... a Category one hurricane located 370 miles west of Yangon, Myanmar, moving east-northeast at eight knots.... Fishermen are advised not to venture out...
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Posted on May 8, 2008 8:49 AM • 3 Comments •
The Myanmar/Burma death toll is now experiencing the usual effects of poor information, limited reporting, and the outcome of being stuck between sensationalism and horror. Most agencies are reporting 22,000 dead with twice that missing. I do think that these numbers are meaningless at this...
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Posted on May 6, 2008 9:37 AM • 2 Comments •
