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Carls Sagan’s pale blue dot, with an unforgettable video: Move update: I’m in the process of moving this site to the new host. So far, everything is going better than expected, and I’m currently trying to get the DNS change to take effect so this url points to the new location. But again, let me . . . → Read More: Uncle Carl speaks to all of us Lake Vostok Will be Breached: After two decades of drilling through miles of Antarctic ice, Russian scientists are about to breach an underground lake that has not been exposed to the surface in more than 20 million years. Lake Vostok, as the body of water is called, is part of a chain of more than 200 lakes . . . → Read More: Big doings at Lake Vostok Vehicle Technologies Program: Fact #712: January 30, 2012 Top Vehicles in the U.S., 2011: See the page for the data. Do I really have to launch into the whole argument about how utterly absurd it is for Americans to be buying this mix of vehicles in 2011, or what that says about the astonishing level of RDS (reality . . . → Read More: Top selling vehicles in the US Pew survey finds US public ranks economy as highest priority policy issue, global warming as lowest: The US public is giving the highest priority to economic issues, according to the findings of the Pew Research Center For The People & The Press January 2012 Political Survey. 86% say that strengthening the economy should be a top priority . . . → Read More: Americans have no sense of urgency about global warming Via an e-mail acquaintance comes the following press release: January 20, 2012 Campaign Urges American Meteorological Society to Get Tougher on Climate Change In the wake of record-breaking extreme weather in 2011, campaign says it’s essential that T.V. meteorologists “Forecast The Facts” www.forecastthefacts.org San Francisco, CA – A new campaign, Forecast the Facts (www.forecastthefacts.org), launches Sunday to pressure TV meteorologists to . . . → Read More: Site alert: Forecast the Facts I’ve mentioned here numerous times my conviction that we’re moving from a state of exploiting natural resources and pollution sinks to a more interventionist, caretaker role — “living measured lives on a managed planet” is my preferred tag line. I dislike that situation for several reasons: First, it means we have much less less room . . . → Read More: Evolving a sustainable mindset If you’re itching for a new example of, “this sounds great, but…”, then I’ve got a real winner we can ponder, as described in the article, Carbon dioxide super-scubber? Potential good news in global warming fight.: Using cheap, readily available materials, a team of chemists has developed a new compound for drawing carbon dioxide out of the . . . → Read More: Scrubbing CO2  Comments are closed  Climate change, Coal, Geoengineering, Natural gas, Oil, Public policy, Uncategorized Time for yet another “it’s worse than we thought” revelation, this time involving the interaction between climate change and species interaction, and increased extinctions. The paper with the results is On a collision course: competition and dispersal differences create no-analogue communities and cause extinctions during climate change, and is open access. The abstract: Most climate change predictions . . . → Read More: Climate change and extinctions NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research & Development Authority) has published Report 11-18 Response to Climate Change in New York State. You can download the synthesis report, i.e. the short version, the long version, or individual chapters from the page linked above. The short version is about 9.8MB and 60 pages, while the long version is . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Response to climate change in NY State Ouch. Talk about a lot of people with no respect for gravity, their own lack of coordination, or the laws . . . → Read More: Sometimes, people aren’t so awesome |
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