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November 19, 2007
Hydrogen powered cars have such an immediate and naive appeal. I mean just imagine nothing but water vapour coming out of your exhaust pipe! What could possibly be wrong with that?
Well as with most deus ex machina solutions to our oil dependence, this one has some rather glaring and inconvenient…
November 19, 2007
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories: SPM, US Reaction, Ban's Tour, OPEC Arctic Circulation, CARMA, State Of The Carbon Cycle, BBC on…
November 16, 2007
Okay, so I've used this before on the old site, it is just too hilarious not to call to attention at least one more time! Steven Colbert's Tek Jansen shows us the (f?)utility of time travel to alter the past.
[UPDATE] There seems to be a problem on the Comedy Central end of things, hopefully it…
November 14, 2007
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup(N.B. Sorry it is late, this is my fault, not Harvey's...)
(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Energy vs War Priorities, IEA Report…
November 13, 2007
"Optimism is a moral imperative. That said, it needs to be reality-based optimism. Sometimes the things we want to work aren't the things that are going to work."
says Michael Tobis on Gristmill. It is a good essay on dealing with what he calls the "train wreck of development, energy, food,…
November 12, 2007
Last Friday, I noticed a breaking story, potentially a huge media scandal, involving Democratic front-runner Hilary Clinton. What was it? Voter supression? Campaign finance fraud? Some ancient skeleton rattling free from her closet?
Not so much....
A waitress in an Iowa diner mentioned that she…
November 6, 2007
According to a recent poll from PIPA (Program on International Policy Attitudes), commissioned by the BBC, people world wide are ready and willing to pay more for energy supplies in order to combat climate change.
Once again the US is defining "leadership" as "dragging feet, kicking and screaming…
November 5, 2007
Reading a post on Deep-Sea News, and considering some of the recent worries about it I've read and considered on my own it occurs to me that, like flouride in drinking water, ocean fertilization is promising to be a great excuse to dump all kinds of crap in the ocean.
Got some industrial waste? If…
November 5, 2007
Congratulations to Chriss Mooney whose book, Storm World, was just named one of the best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly. Head on over and congratulate him!
November 5, 2007
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Mexican Floods, Mayors Meeting, Carbon Cycle Melting Arctic, ICAP, Ocean Sink, California…
November 2, 2007
Okay, so Chris Mooney beat me to it...a sequel panel to this one.
November 2, 2007
Via Andrew Dessler on Gristmill, we have this quoted material:
At the World Climate Conference in Geneva this week, the United States blocked consensus on specific goals for reduction of carbon dioxide emission. As What's New predicted a month ago, the US sided with such backward nations as China…
October 31, 2007
"Bright Scientists, Dim Notions" is the title of a NYT article from a few days ago prompted by the recent controversy over scientifically unfounded and racist remarks made by James Watson about the supposedly inherently inferior intelligence of the African race as compared to Caucasians.
The…
October 30, 2007
Okay, that headline should really say "What if...", but hey, this is one of "the internets" and I'm just one of those irresponsible activist bloggers, so what do I care? But let's get to the point...
Today's Dilbert cartoon offers some sound advice to Exxon Mobile, half of which they are already…
October 30, 2007
Oceans are 'soaking up less CO2' is the headline of a recent BBC News article. (Well, it is recent in most senses of the word though not in blogger-land...Rabbet Run discusses it here, Stoat did it here, and Michael Tobis blogged about it here).
So the news is that a some new research indicates…
October 29, 2007
Australia's 2007 Person of the Year, Tim Flannery, was interviewed in a long segment on Democracy Now last week.
Listen/Watch/Read
It is an interesting interview on a great daily news source.
October 29, 2007
If Gore Were Arrested is the title of an article at The Nation online. According to this report Al Gore has been invited to participate in civil disobedience with the Rainforest Action Network and he is considering it!
The article finishes its headline sentence this way:
If Gore did end up getting…
October 29, 2007
Real Climate has a good post on geo-engineering and why it is only fitting as a final act of desperation, not a policy platform. It expresses very well all my own misgivings (it's a terribly dangerous one-chance-to-get-it-right experiment on the entire planet, it commits the human race to…
October 28, 2007
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Accelerating CO2 Growth, GEO-4, Mass Extinctions, Roe & Baker, Prins & Rayner, IAC Melting Arctic,…
October 27, 2007
If the United States continues to thumb its nose at the rest of the world in the climate change arena, this article from the EU Observer discusses what the appropriate response should be.
The article indicates that the European Union is considering taxing goods that are imported from CO2 polluting…
October 24, 2007
So this will be the last of my catching up posts, hope it was not too tedious. This one will not be article by article, I must succumb to the reality that I won't read everything I want to.
So I have missed out on alot of fellow Science Bloggers stuff, namely Chris and Sheril's last 40 posts,…
October 24, 2007
There is of course no better source of climate science blogging than Real Climate. Their posts are seldom rarely read and forget or anything less than very meaty and informative. Thankfully for people who get behind (cough) they do not post every day or even every week. Nevertheless, I have…
October 23, 2007
As with In It for the Gold, Eli Rabbet's Rabbet Run is another quality blog that can't be just marked as read. So I have no other option but to settle down for a bit of focused reading and catch up on Eli's latest 19 posts!
(Eli, if you are reading this, you might want to update my entry in your…
October 22, 2007
Well, Goggle reader is a great tool, but it sure has a way of shaming you when you let your daily reading slip...especially for a couple of weeks. Of course I subscribe to many other blogs and feeds. but Michael Tobis' In It for the Gold is not one I like to just "mark all as read" when I get…
October 21, 2007
...so says the headline of a Guardian news paper report from one week ago (this has very likely been covered already in other climate blogs but I am too far behind on my blog reading to know any better!)
The school governor who challenged the screening of Al Gore's climate change documentary in…
October 21, 2007
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Gore's Nobel, AIT Verdict, BAD, WFD, UK's Antarctic Claim, UMD Report Melting Arctic, NOAA Arctic Report Card…
October 18, 2007
In the Daily Show's brilliant style we get a quick overview of the right wing's hysterical reaction to Al Gore being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (co winning with the IPCC).
(YouTube video below with a H/T to CrooksandLiars)
(money quote: "Mother Teresa, f**k her!")
October 16, 2007
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's GW news roundup
(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Nobel, Anti-Gore, UK Court Case Melting Arctic, Walruses, Humidity, Solar Cycle Hurricanes, CO2 Equivalents, 455 ppm, GHG Sources, Glaciers, Sea…
October 7, 2007
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's GW news roundup
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Top Stories, Ted Glick, Innovation, UN Warning, African floods, CSIRO/BOM Report Melting Arctic, NorthWest Passage, Resource Conflict, Greenland, Last Week's…
October 6, 2007
"South America chokes as Amazon Burns" is the headline on an online Independent news article. Apparently the annual practice of fall burning to clear forest land so we can eat hamburgers and get fat has spun out of control this year. The world's largest forest has become a bit of a "tinder box"…