September 3, 2008 – 5:48 pm
I ran across this early August piece from the Huffington Post while I was looking for monkey pictures for Surrender Monkey posts, and, I just had to laugh at the spin Today Dr. Birute Galdikas is considered one of the foremost experts on Orangutans. To this day she remains in Borneo, huddled in the dense […]
September 2, 2008 – 7:29 am
Just a little jog to the right, and Raleigh gets a big hit, not to mention the fact that the track would expose where I live to a pretty big strike at tropical storm force winds. (News and Observer) But the hurricane was also on track to hit the United States. “Right now, the uncertainty […]
August 25, 2008 – 8:58 am
Hey, something I almost agree with Trees, and especially the diverse vegetation of tropical rainforests, soak up and store carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming. Decaying or burning trees releases carbon into the air. Scientists estimate that deforestation accounts for up to 20 percent of the carbon added by man to […]
August 23, 2008 – 9:36 am
They do understand that it is a “virtual” fence, right? Construction on “virtual fence” projects scheduled along Arizona’s border with Mexico is on hold indefinitely because the Interior Department hasn’t signed off on use of its lands, federal officials said Tuesday. Interior officials have not accepted a proposed finding in an environmental assessment produced for […]
August 20, 2008 – 8:45 am
Birds of prey need something to eat, and Pika’s are easy pickings. We have to save them! Do something, Dubya! Â Compared to the polar bear, the American pika is downright tiny. Weighing only 4 ounces to 6 ounces, this small, rabbit-like mammal with thick brown hair that lives on boulder-covered slopes near alpine meadows in […]
August 16, 2008 – 2:09 pm
What? It’s happened before? The period of the Green Sahara, as some researchers call it, began when a fluctuation in the Earth’s orbit changed African weather patterns and brought more rain to the desert. The lakes that developed supported 6-foot-long pike fish, turtles, crocodiles and an array of other wildlife and human settlers. But the […]
August 15, 2008 – 1:10 pm
Oh, no, forest fires! So says the headline Global Warming Boosts Forest Fire Risk Global warming and past management practices are making forests in the Western United States more susceptible to fire, according to a report released Thursday. Wait a minute. They aren’t supposed to decrease their case with “past management practices” line. It is […]
August 14, 2008 – 9:00 am
Here we go. One of the things I have complained about regarding the whole anthropogenic climate change silliness is that it puts reducing CO2 output over real environmental issues, and Canada is finding that out Smog-related deaths are set to soar to more than 700,000 in Canada over the next two decades, the Canadian Medical […]
August 12, 2008 – 8:11 am
People have been asking since the campaigns for the 2004 elections, is there anything you do not support on, you neocon you? Usually in massively shrill voices. Yes, there are a few things, such as illegal immigration, spending policy, and Bush rarely defending his own policies. Here’s another one Parts of the Endangered Species Act […]
August 11, 2008 – 8:39 am
Has anyone bothered to tell these folks that it is Summer in the Arctic? Polar bears at this time of year should be out hunting seals on sea ice in the Arctic. But, due to global warming, Arctic sea ice melts earlier and to a greater extent than it has in the past. It’s what […]
