This awesome essay is by Bill McKibben. It originally appeared here and is being widely circulated. It is from his forthcoming book “Eaarth: Making a life on a tough new planet”. I was in LA (doing my masters degree at CSUN) during the infamous OJ trials. Like everyone else around the world, [...]
Science magazine’s awesome blog, ScienceNow, just held a contest for the best bloggers covering the 2010 AAAS meeting. The third place winner Daniel Stolte, a science writer at the University of Arizona, made two excellent posts on two very depressing aspects of ocean degradation. The first, “Blinded by the Noise”, is on marine noise [...]
Shock! Somehow that Sei whale meat from Japan’s “scientific” whale hunt has found its way onto the plates of an LA sushi bar! And giving this story an odd twist is the fact that the bust was initiated by hollywood activists that produced The Cove.
From the NYT: Oscar winners try to keep [...]
Last week I made a post about a new paper on methane seeping from the Arctic seafloor. Since then, there have been several new posts on other sites about the work, putting it into a broader perspective and also taking somewhat contradictory views of the implications of the finding. The fear [...]
Professor David Karoly (one of Australia’s esteemed ARC Federation Fellows) wrote to several of us recently in frustration over the recent misinformation in the Courier Mail and on Andrew Bolt’s blog. As usual, Andrew and the News Ltd papers have cherry-picked their way through the truth. Here is what David wrote:
“I don’t like [...]
Evidence from Institute of Physics drawn from energy industry consultant who argues global warming is a religion
David Adams, Guardian , Thursday 4 March 2010 21.00 GMT
Evidence from a respected scientific body to a parliamentary inquiry examining the behaviour of climate-change scientists, was drawn from an energy industry consultant who argues that [...]
No, it isn’t yet April 1. See here. You gotta love the bit about this all being a “long post-mini-ice-age warming”. But still, I admire his (partial) intellectual honesty. Well, maybe that is overly generous since there never actually was a “break” in the warming.
The post includes this figure (from here):
The words “climate change” are now on the lips of almost every Australian. Plug these words into Google and you get 3.3 million hits for Australian pages, nearly a million more hits than for “health care”. Australians talk about climate change, but for a variety of reasons. Some of us are concerned, some are skeptical, [...]
From today’s LA Times, by Margot Roosevelt, original story is posted here
Carbon dioxide (C02) is the most prevalent greenhouse gas that is trapping heat in the atmosphere, warming the planet to what most climate scientists consider dangerous levels. But methane, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more powerful [...]
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