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You can slice and dice, reevaluate and discuss, and just plan ponder aspects of humanity’s sustainability challenge endlessly. I certainly have to plead guilty to contributing to the combinatorial explosion of ways we look at this mess we’ve created and how to fix it. Just as I think it’s critical to keep making that . . . → Read More: Our fundamental challenge News broke a few days ago that a bi-partisan group of Senators has introduced a bill to create a country-wide RPS (renewable portfolio standard): Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) introduced the Renewable Electricity Promotion Act. The proposed legislation would install a renewable portfolio . . . → Read More: A national RPS for the US? By now, the NASA article New Map Offers a Global View of Health-Sapping Air Pollution has already received some attention in various nooks and crannies of the blogosphere. The key image from the article: Note that this graphic and the report highlight particulate matter 2.5 micrometers or less in size, and not CO2 or other greenhouse . . . → Read More: When science collides with international politics The energy-water-climate nexus is one of the nastiest and most perverse facets of the complex of sustainability challenges humanity is currently facing. We’ve all heard and used the mantra — “it takes energy to deliver water, it takes water to deliver energy”. To cite just about everyone’s favorite example, California expends 19% of its . . . → Read More: Our inescapable water problems Report says shale gas uncertainty could discourage low carbon investment: The ‘shale gas revolution’ – responsible for a 20-fold increase in unconventional gas production in the US over the last decade – is creating huge investor uncertainties for international gas markets and renewables and could result in serious gas shortages in 10 years time, says the report: . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Shale Gas, Hype and Reality Those of us who follow all things Arctic related very closely are aware that the ice way up there on the top of the planet threw us all a world-class head fake in recent days. It seemed that the ice extent[1] had bottomed out for the season, and then it surprised everyone with a dip . . . → Read More: Pondering Arctic ice Press release received today, worth your attention: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CLIMATE SCIENTISTS DEBUNK PROMINENT CONTRARIAN CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON’S CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY A group of five scientists solicited responses from more than twenty world-class climate scientists to the May 6th testimony by Christopher Monckton to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. These climate scientists “…have . . . → Read More: Pushing back against Monckton From my garden, digitized via my Nikon and computer, and then blasted into the dark, frigid expanse of cyberspace to appear on your screen. Ain’t . . . → Read More: Roses Trust me, the videos below doesn’t begin to do this justice. The Peterborough lift lock was built from 1896-1904, and it uses nothing but the weight of water to move boats upwards or downwards 65 feet, making it the highest lift lock in the world. It didn’t have grid electricity until about 1960(!). I’ve seen . . . → Read More: Peterborough Lift Lock |
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