Environment
sastyk | February 1, 2011There's a great scene in the book _Cheaper By the Dozen_ (which had almost nothing to do with the recent movie Steve Martin was in, although there's a fairly good old one) in which Lillian Moller Gilbraith, mother of 12 (11 surviving) is offered by a joking friend as the ideal host for a Planned Parenthood organizational meeting. The PP representative, who has been told that Gilbraith is a model organizer, a professional woman and a leader in her community - but not that she has 11 kids. "Within 15 Miles of Organizational Headquarters!" announces the representative of Planned Parenthood in…
illconsidered | January 31, 2011 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 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsJanuary 30, 2011 Chuckles, COP17, G20, Cablegate, WSF-WEF, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Australia, Pakistan Bottom Line, Subsidies, Thermodynamics, UEF, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro Corps, Food Prices, Foresight, Food vs. Biofuel, IP Issues, GMOs, Food…
jdupuis | January 27, 2011Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The World According to Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements by Sam Kean
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon
Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World by Stan Cox
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance…
krandall | January 25, 2011By Dr. Darlene Lim, a geobiologist and limnologist at the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, and Gail Jacobs
Dr. Darlene Lim's research interests span Earth and Space Science. She conducts limnological and paleolimnological investigations of remote lakes and ponds in the Canadian High Arctic to characterize Holocene climate change. She has also extrapolated her Arctic work to Mars analog paleolake reconstructions. Darlene led the establishment of the Pavilion Lake Research Project in 2004 and has enjoyed managing and evolving the project ever since. She…
illconsidered | January 25, 2011 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 Instability News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomJanuary 23, 2011 Chuckles, COP16, WFES, Why?, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Australia Bottom Line, UEF, Thermodynamics, Cook, Post CRU, Late Comments Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro-chem Corps, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…
sastyk | January 24, 2011Note: I'm way behind on my 31 books resolution - I'll have to hurry to catch up. In the meantime, will you count these 12? I bet you don't own them!
Worms Eat my Laundry by Alcea Grovestock - Worms are hot - in-house domestic composting is everywhere. But have you considered the way red wigglers could augment your laundry routine? After all, so many of us, taken up with homestead and farm work, garden and family chores have developed that layer of laundry that never seems to get washed, composting at the bottom of the hamper. With the addition of red worms and regular contributions to…
illconsidered | January 20, 2011 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 Overload is Pattern RecognitionJanuary 16, 2011 Chuckles, Cancun, Gillett, Winter, Australia, Brazil, Sri Lanka Bottom Line, Ratcliffe - Kennedy, Earth Networks, Open Everything, Cook, Post CRU, Birds Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…
mikethemadbiologist | January 15, 2011From the Great State of Arizona (not to pick on the sane people trapped there):
Then there was Sylvia Allen, a real estate broker from the town of Snowflake, who, in 2008, was appointed by the local Republican Party to finish the term of a respected conservative who had died in office. Allen, who retained her seat in an election that fall, has since gained minor notoriety after calling for more uranium mining, saying in a speech that "this earth has been here 6,000 years, long before anybody had environmental laws, and somehow it hasn't been done away with." She also has complained that trees…
sastyk | January 12, 2011
The Food Crisis, of course. In fact it really never left - since 2007 we've had more hungry people on the planet than ever before in human history, and while we've seen brief declines in the numbers of the hungry worldwide, those declines were of such short duration that they were essentially meaningless - earlier this year when the UN trumpeted that the number of the hungry had dropped back below 1 billion, it admitted that this excluded Pakistani flood victims, the impacts of the crisis in the Russian wheat crop and a host of other late-year issues.
On the lists of guests no one ever…
illconsidered | January 10, 2011 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...January 9, 2011 Chuckles, COP16, COP17+, Perspectives, Harbinger?, Australia, WikiLeaks, Winter Bottom Line, Subsidies, Laws, Thermodynamics, GHE, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Norther Light, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Price Index, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon…
heathero | January 4, 2011
Thanks to Viktor at StrippedScience for letting me borrow his microbe New Year's cartoon!
Happy New Year! I was catching up on my blog reader and came across the NatureNews top science stories of 2010. I was curious how many of these stories would have something to do with microbes... turns out quite a few do. Of the 12 science news-worthy events/discoveries selected, 3 were directly related: the claim of Arsenic-based life story, the new HIV drug Truvada (including viruses with microbes), and the synthetic genome from the Ventner institute.
In the style of 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon I…
pharyngula | January 4, 2011Jerry Coyne has just heard that Chris Mooney has an article in Playboy — I knew about this a while back, and have a copy of the text. I didn't mention it before because it isn't online, and it's dreadfully dreary stuff. The entire article is a case of false equivalence: he cites scientists like Einstein and Darwin writing about a sense of awe and wonder at the natural world, and then tries to slide a fast one by…the idea that this means science and religion really are compatible. Well, science and spirituality. Well, spirituality is all about the believers. It's a slimy game relying on the…
illconsidered | January 4, 2011(Apologies to those whose week can not begin until they have read each and every link in the weekly news roundup, the fault is mine, het was on time as usual...)
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 Instability News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsJanuary 2, 2011 Chuckles, COP16, 2010, 2011+, Gleick, CableGate, Weather, Australia, Crocs, Pakistan Bottom Line, Subsidies, The Question,…
jdupuis | January 2, 2011I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I'm going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I'll mostly be doing the posts one or two per weekend and I'll occasionally be merging two or more shorter reviews into one post here.
This one, of David Suzuki: An Autobiography, is from October 3, 2006.
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We live in a time when the military, industry, and medicine are all applying scientific insights, with profound social, economic, and political…
jtoney | January 1, 2011Protecting and sustaining our environment is a core value that seems to be common sense. It never occurred to me that this value might somehow conflict with religion - after all, isn't being a good steward of the earth a goal of numerous faiths? Apparently not.
As reported in The New York Times, there is a strong push back by Christian evangelists against environmentalism. I find this mind boggling.
This movement refers to itself as "Resisting the Green Dragon" {is such a moniker supposed to conjure images of fire breathing dragons in a prehistoric era?} and refers to enviornmentalism as…
tfk | December 28, 2010
Mark Cothren of Kentucky cannot recognize a raccoon with mange. This is noteworthy mainly because Texans can't recognize a dog with mange, either.
It's also noteworthy because it's possible Mark Cothren is related to Martin Cothran, and there's a new blogger at Martin Cothran's blog. He signs off as "Thomas Cothran," who is either an Oklahoman or a Tennesseean serving a 112 year sentence for vehicular manslaughter, or someone else entirely.
He asks: Is the Opposition to Climate Change Ecological or Technological?, and trips over himself right from the first sentence:
Let's set aside the…
jdupuis | December 28, 2010Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity by Paul Collier
The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet by Heidi Cullen
Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats by Gwynne Dyer
Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It by Anna Lappe and Bill McKibben
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New…
gregladen | December 27, 2010The first thing you need to know about my list of the top ten science stories of the year is this: There are not ten. Well, as I write this, I've not settled what's on the list and what's not, so maybe there will be ten. Or six. Or one hundred and eleven. In any event, it will likely only be ten if you express the number in Basen where n is the number of stories.
What makes a "top ten" science story? I've decided to be picky this year. So, a brand new study that shows that male bower birds do some amazing trick with mirror fragments and monofiliment fishing line and discarded…
illconsidered | December 27, 2010 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 is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomDecember 26, 2010 Chuckles, Solstice, COP16, Bolivia, COP17+, Season's Greetings, Roundups, Weather AGU, IPBES, CableGate, Pakistan, Subsidies, Amstrup, Thermodynamics, Cook Melting Arctic, Polar Bears Food Crisis, Agro-corps, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures,…
illconsidered | December 20, 2010 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 Overload is Pattern RecognitionDecember 19, 2010 Chuckles, Solstice, COP16, COP17+, UN GCF, CableGate, AGU, Amstrup, Weather, Pakistan Bottom Line, Subsidies, Year End, CSRRT, Cook, Post CRU, Shrinkology Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, GCDT, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production…