climate change
November 20, 2009
- At the end of September 2009, renowned climatologist Stefan Rahmstorf spoke to an international climate change conference in Oxford, England. Rahmstorf is a respected authority specializing in analysis of ice melt and sea level changes. He and other climate scientists made this startling announcement: A rise of at least 2 meters (~6 foot) in the world's sea levels is now virtually unstoppable. ...
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November 16, 2009
- U.S. USA attorneys Allan Zabel and Laurie Williams produce a YouTube video (The Huge Mistake Climate Change 2009) and are asked to take it down by the EPA and the Obama Administration [ctrl-click to launch video]. Video Credit: Allan Zabel and Laurie Williams via oversightandreform The Obama Administration, The EPA, & Free Speech The short answer ... It is not happening. This probably ...
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November 4, 2009
- Ladies and gentlemen, politicians and scientists, young and old, professors and teachers, parents and children, priests and religious leaders, rich and poor, married and singles, families and friends, businessmen and doctors, homeless and engineers. The Earth has sent us a message. She wants to partner with us, because she is tired of being in chain and she is lonely. The Earth has been crying ...
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October 28, 2009
- Aspen leaves showing extensive damage done by the aspen leaf miner Photo: ©2006, Benson Lee, Copper Center, Alaska An article by Nicholas Riccardi in Friday’s Los Angeles Times cites global climate change as the primary cause of Sudden Aspen Decline, which has been sweeping through forests of the American West in recent years. Rising temperatures and increased drought ...
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September 25, 2009
- So, there's a new super Viagra coming out, that has proven to be effective in some large percentage of mice. It's a rub-on cream.To tell you the truth, I am just too damned lazy to make a joke about this while I know each and every one of you already has one swirling around in your demented little heads, so go ahead, insert joke here.Sometimes, life just tosses you a meatball so perfect you don't ...
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November 6, 2008
- In early 2007, fishermen patrolled the Antarctic's Ross Sea looking for Patagonian toothfish (aka Chilean Sea Bass and please stop buying and eating it if you are so inclined; not enough is known about how it survives and it is being illegally caught and sold by less-than-honorable people in many cases...) when they noted an odd tug on one line. When they hauled it in, they found a colossal squid ...
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November 3, 2008
- When I was an undergrad at the University of Michigan, we used to all chant "the whole world is watching" in response to many situations -- El Salvador, missile defense systems, -- the list could go on and on. The idea of being outraged and taking to the central "Diag" to shout our disapproval came naturally to us. I saw this same trait in the Greenpeace sailors who got me ...
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October 29, 2008
- The house is colder than it should be because the central heating system is ancient and ineffective, meaning I have to wrap up in thick turtlenecks and clutch a warm mug of tea. Outside night time has settled into a comfortable position, smothering the world in its darkness and is interrupted only by the amber glow of street lamps. The British winter has truly started. Every time I look out ...
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October 23, 2008
- This book offers a good historical account of the U.S. commitment to Persian Gulf oil from the FDR administration to the present. It makes a strong case for recognizing two things: 1) there isn't enough oil in the Persian Gulf to meet projected U.S. energy needs during the first half of the 21st century; 2) the United States has developed and projected massive military might into the Persian ...
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September 17, 2008
- Let me begin this post by saying I’m grateful for the concerted efforts of many to counteract climate change and save the planet—by reducing waste and carbon emissions as part of a sustainable lifestyle. The way I see it, though, material sustainability is passé. It’s more accurate to report we’re in some kind of post-sustainability scenario because of two crushing facts: The speeding up ...
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