Environment
illconsidered | May 15, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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 Another week of in the Ecological Crisis Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not WisdomMay 13, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+20, AOSIS, FAO, Occupy, Dino Farts, WAIS, Correction, Conspiracy, Save the Planet Club of Rome, Peru, Elgin, GCF, Subsidies, Banks, Natural Capital, Thermodynamics, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane,…
illconsidered | May 7, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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 Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Information Overload is Pattern RecognitionMay 6, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+20, COP18+, Moon, Zhou, Peru, IEA, Elgin Banks, Global Legal Framework, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…
lborkowski | April 30, 2012by Kim Krisberg
It was a lucky winter for Becky Belmont. The weather was on her side.
As the director of energy and weatherization at West Central Minnesota Communities Action Inc., Belmont was sure the agency would run out of energy assistance funds to help all those in need. But fortunately, a mild Minnesota winter translated into fewer residents who needed help keeping their homes warm this year.
Today, Belmont seems pretty optimistic that even with declining funds, the agency will have enough funding to last through May 31, which marks the end of its Energy Assistance Program year. This…
illconsidered | April 30, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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 Another week of Climate Disruption News Another Week in the Ecological CrisisApril 29, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+20, CEM, IPY2012, People & Planet, Pritchard, Durack, Kort Elgin, IPBES, Maldives, World Bank, Pricing Nature, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Grolar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Land…
pronald | April 26, 2012A paper in this week's issue of Nature and a commentary on Revkin's DotEarth blog reinforces the argument that a hybrid path in agriculture -- incorporating both conventional and organic production practices -- gives the best chance of feeding some 9 billion people by midcentury in an ecologically-based manner.
The thoughtful and comprehensive study compares yields in organic and conventional systems and addresses the criticisms of an earlier study by Badgley et al (for problems with the earlier study, see the supplementary discussion in Seufert et al).
The organic agriculture movement has…
illconsidered | April 23, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another Week of Anthropocene Antics Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsApril 22, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+20, Earth Day, EGU 2012, Elgin, KPMG, Brotz Maldives, Grumbine, B-Corps, Subsidies, World Bank, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, IPY Conference, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs…
sastyk | April 16, 2012"Context is everything. Breastfeeding is almost universally beneficial in infants, but in an elderly cardiac patient, it can be fatal." - Spider Robinson
Quite a number of readers suggested I respond to James McWilliams' piece in the New York Times "The Myth of Sustainable Meat." McWilliams has garnered quite a bit of attention by critiquing the idea of local food, and in some cases, some of his analyses, as far as they go, are right. For example, McWilliams is quite right that if everyone in America eats as much beef as they always have, but converts to grassfed beef his figures are…
illconsidered | April 16, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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 Another Week of Anthropocene Antics Sipping from the Internet Firehose...April 15, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+20, Elgin, Fretwell, March, Maldives, Shakun, SREX Subsidies, GFIs, Hype, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food Riots, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Paleoclimate…
illconsidered | April 10, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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 Another week of Climate Disruption News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomApril 8, 2012 Chuckles, Shakun, DeConto, Maldives, Elgin Heatwave, Earth Hour, CPDN, SREX, Subsidies, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, IP Issues, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes,…
carlyo | April 9, 2012The Kavli Science Video Contest has wrapped up with over 260 entries! Now it's time for the People's Choice Vote, in advance of the awards ceremony on April 29, in Washington, DC, as part of the USA Science & Engineering Festival. People's Choice Voting begins April 2 and closes April 13. Voting is easy, just view the videos on YouTube and click 'like" for your favorites. Click here to view the videos.
We have been highlighting the Top 20 Finalists on our blog for the past two weeks. In today's blog get to know the next five of the Top 20 Finalists:
SPOTLIGHT ON KAVLI VIDEO CONTEST…
carlyo | April 6, 2012The Kavli Science Video Contest has wrapped up with over 260 entries! Now it's time for the People's Choice Vote, in advance of the awards ceremony on April 29, in Washington, DC, as part of the USA Science & Engineering Festival. People's Choice Voting begins April 2 and closes April 13. Voting is easy, just view the videos on YouTube and click 'like" for your favorites. Click here to view the videos.
We will be highlighting the Top 20 Finalists on our blog for the next two weeks. In today's blog get to know the next five of the Top 20 Finalists:
SPOTLIGHT ON KAVLI VIDEO CONTEST:…
aardvarchaeology | April 4, 2012For forty years I've been one of the most fortunate people I've ever heard of.
Starting from the global perspective, there is of course hardly a single country on Earth where people live under such good conditions as in Sweden. This goes for all of us here tonight. If we had ended up somewhere else, ourselves and our loved ones would in all likelihood have had to endure illiteracy, slavery, tyranny, torture, famine, war, severe illness and a very early demise.
With my slightly odd professional perspective I'm also acutely aware of how lucky I am to have plopped down not just where I am, but…
oracknows | April 3, 2012As I mentioned yesterday, I'm at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting imbibing the latest and greatest that science-based medicine has to offer against cancer. The AACR is mainly a basic science and translational meeting; so a lot of this stuff is seriously preclinical. That's what makes it interesting, though. In any case, my distraction aside, sometimes stuff happens that I still have to comment on and, better yet, sometimes it's the sort of stuff that I don't feel obligated to write an Orac-ian length screed about. In other words, it's perfect for keeping the blog active…
illconsidered | April 2, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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 Another week of Global Warming News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionApril 1, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+20, SREX, PuP, Coumou & Rahmstorf, Rowlands et al., Som et al., Elgin March Weather, Earth Hour, GM & HI, Subsidies, GFIs, Intimidation, Cook, de Boer SEI Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, GMOs…
jdupuis | March 30, 2012Every year for the last several years I've collated and extracted the science books from all the various "best books of the year" lists in different media media outlets. I've done the same this year for books published in 2011! I can tell it's been popular among my readers from the hit stats I see for this blog and from the number of keyword searches on "best science books" or whatnot I see in my analytics program.
Back in 2009, I started taking all the lists I could find and tallying up all the "votes" to see which books were mentioned the most times. An interesting exercise, to say the…
illconsidered | March 26, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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 Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...March 25, 2012 Chuckles, Equinox, WWD, Heatwave, SEI, Earth Hour, Maldives Exxon Valdez, WMO, SkS Hacked, World Bank, Value, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Nitrogen Cycle…
gregladen | March 20, 2012There's an app for that!
A free, new iPhone app from NASA literally puts the whole world in the palm of your hands. "Earth Now" immerses cyber explorers in dazzling visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA's fleet of Earth science satellites.
Available at the iTunes Store or by visiting http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/apps , Earth Now displays data on many of the key vital signs of our planet that NASA satellites track. Whether your interest is current surface air temperatures over Australia, carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide levels over Canada, ozone over Oman, water vapor…
illconsidered | March 19, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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 Another Week in the Planetary Crisis Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsMarch 18, 2012 Chuckles, Frowns, COP18+, Rio+20, UN WWDR, Future Heartland, Koch - Cato, Bottom Line, Subsidies, GFIs, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, ENSO…
illconsidered | March 12, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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 Another Week in the Planetary Crisis Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomMarch 11, 2012 Chuckles, Durban, IWD, Koch-Cato, Heartland, Sustainia, Shrinkology Hönisch, Liu, Weaver & Swart, Bottom Line, Subsidies, WB, Ecocide, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bear, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices…
carlyo | March 12, 2012By Joe Schwarcz PhD, Author, USASEF Expo Performer, AT&T Sponsored Nifty Fifty Program Speaker
Yellowstone National Park's iconic "Old Faithful" geyser is pretty faithful. It can be counted on to erupt every 50-90 minutes. Iceland's "Great Geysir," from which all other geysers get their name is less reliable. It was mostly dormant for sixty five years before it began semi-regular eruptions again in 2000 thanks to an earthquake. But in New Zealand, you can set your watch by the eruption of the Lady Knox Geyser, named after a former Governor of the country. At exactly 10:15 AM every…