June 15, 2012 – 8:55 am
For those who watched the new Dallas reboot (I didn’t. Wasn’t interested in the first, not interested in this one), did you catch the underlying theme? No? Well, let Time Magazines Ecocentric explain it In case you thought that the battle between big oil and alternative fuel had cooled down, Hollywood has proven that the […]
June 12, 2012 – 2:45 pm
Yes, you read the headline correctly (via Tom Nelson) (CNN Money) The International Energy Agency said the world’s clean energy investments are sorely lacking and this week called for an additional $36 trillion of funding by 2050. In a sharply-worded introduction to a 700-page report, IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven said governments and […]
June 11, 2012 – 5:27 pm
Hilarious stuff from Public Radio International In the last 20 years, the moose population in the northern Midwest has declined. Researchers believe this may be due to climate change and warmer temperatures as well as an increase in the number of predators to moose. I’d put my money on the predators being the major cause. […]
June 11, 2012 – 12:05 pm
Warning: do not drink anything prior to reading this. I will not be held responsible for any damage to your computer, tablet, or smartphone (via Tom Nelson) (Radio Australia)Australian based co-author, Dr John Church from Australia’s island state of Tasmania says there’s no way all of the world’s oceans could’ve warmed by one tenth of […]
June 9, 2012 – 2:21 pm
You have to wonder what the unintended consequences of this could be (Daily Mail) The sky could turn from a reassuring blue to a blank white if scientists are forced to take drastic action to tackle global warming, experts have claimed. By injecting aerosols which scatter light into the atmosphere we could reflect more sun […]
June 5, 2012 – 11:00 am
Obviously, said youth will tell us about the evils of fossil fueled flights (Grist) If you had just a few minutes to address world leaders —to give the ultimate “My Fellow Earthlings†speech —what would you say? That was essentially the question behind A Date With History, a challenge sponsored by the climate campaign Tcktcktck, […]
June 3, 2012 – 3:22 pm
We’re constantly told that fossil fuels are the worst cause of “climate change”, you know, hotcoldwetdry. So why’s Hillary Clinton flying to the Arctic to view “climate change”? Arctic Warming Means Challenges, Clinton Says Thinning polar ice means more sea traffic through the Arctic at a time of territorial claims to an area that could […]
June 2, 2012 – 6:34 pm
I’d forgotten about this story, I think I caught it the other day through Fark, till I perused Real Science this morning. The story starts out with a bunch of idiocy, followed by a few paragraphs discusses Amendment 1 (which banned gay marriage in NC) which has literally nothing to do with the issue, but […]
May 31, 2012 – 7:01 am
One of the results of people going “green” when it comes to driving is that these vehicles use less gas, meaning that there is less tax collected. I discussed this same thing happening in the USA in terms of money lost from the use of hybrid, electric, and fuel efficient vehicles last November. There’s absolutely […]
May 29, 2012 – 8:12 am
What better way to attempt to get people over to your side, Joe Romm, than calling them brainless? Humans Are Not Like Slowly Boiling Frogs … We Are Like Slowly Boiling Brainless Frogs Even though people keep using the famous simile — “the fatally slow human response to climate change makes us like a slowly […]
