Feb 22 2010
I found this this morning. Talk about gorgeous! And I love the little sailboat at the top.
Be sure to read the whole article, it’s really nicely done. And um… I guess it’s time to put Venice on the top of our “to visit before it’s submerged” list.
Jan 26 2010
This just cracks me up:
Maximum height of extreme waves up dramatically in Pacific Northwest
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Using more sophisticated techniques that account for the “non-stationarity” in the wave height record, researchers say the 100-year wave height could actually exceed 55 feet, with impacts that would dwarf those expected from sea level rise in coming decades. Increased coastal erosion, flooding, [...]
Dec 19 2009
…in simple terms that mere mortals can understand. Naturally, this is an oversimplification, and you could nitpick each of these things. What’s critical is that you understand, generally, what the numbers in question mean. From the Guardian:
Copenhagen climate summit: Five possible scenarios for our future climate
With talks in Copenhagen descending into chaos, the prospects for [...]
Dec 19 2009
From Bill McKibben and company:
Dear Friends,
We need you to read this closely, if you would.
You’ve always counted on us to tell the truth, and it would be useless to pretend we’re happy with the outcome of the Copenhagen climate talks.
You’ll likely hear the Copenhagen drama spun in a thousand different ways, but here’s our honest [...]
Dec 17 2009
My heroes are in tears.
http://rozsavage.com/2009/12/17/cop15-t-1-weeping-for-the-world/
http://www.350.org/about/blogs/end-day-update
http://tcktcktck.org/stories/campaign-stories/open-letter-president-obama
I was so hoping for some kind of grand gesture. And I suppose Obama might yet swoop in and deliver. If so, I’ll even forgive him the finance crisis. But so far? It’s looking like business as usual, where the rich and powerful make theater and the poor and disenfranchised suffer.
I’ll [...]
Dec 15 2009
The inestimably brilliant George Monbiot, on Copenhagen:
This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue living as it has done, until it must make [...]
Dec 13 2009
I can’t imagine what it must be like for Ian Fry to say what he says in front of the world. I wonder if any of our pampered, entitled, mostly-useless elected officials (I will not call them leaders) are listening? I wonder if our “change” president will actually do something, instead of simply mouthing platitudes [...]
Oct 29 2009
Sometimes, the scientific method’s reductionist thinking makes my head ache. Check this out:
North Carolina sea levels rising 3 times faster than in previous 500 years, Penn study says
An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise, at least in North Carolina, is accelerating. Researchers found 20th-century sea-level rise [...]
Oct 22 2009
This just in from the fine folks at 350.org:
Dear friends,
For 20 years the world has managed to do very little about the greatest problem it’s ever faced. In three days time, you can help change that–and if you step up you’re going to have a lot of company!
It looks like the International Day of Climate [...]
Oct 13 2009
This just in, from 350.org:
Dear World—
This is an invitation to build a movement—to take one day and use it to stop the climate crisis.
We are a group of people from around the planet—young and old, scientists and writers and activists—who have one thing in common. We know the most important number on earth: 350. And [...]
Oct 10 2009
From the BBC:
‘Scary’ climate message from past
A new historical record of carbon dioxide levels suggests current political targets on climate may be “playing with fire”, scientists say.
Researchers used ocean sediments to plot CO2 levels back 20 million years.
Levels similar to those now commonly regarded as adequate to tackle climate change were associated with sea levels [...]
Mar 16 2009
The Age of Stupid: final trailer, Feb 2009 HD from Age of Stupid on Vimeo.
Looks like it’ll be in the US in May.
HT: Nicole
Dec 16 2008
This piece on global warming, from the Guardian, is absolutely nauseating:
Despite the political rhetoric, the scientific warnings, the media headlines and the corporate promises, he would say, carbon emissions were soaring way out of control – far above even the bleak scenarios considered by last year’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [...]
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