February 2012
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Climate Forecast: Thirsty Americans →
What’s in store for a warmer future? A lot less water for a lot more people.
How the cell phone revolution can raise millions...
Squatting in a dusty field in the village of Rataul, two hours north of Delhi in the state of Uttar Pradesh, a young woman, like uncounted generations of women before her, is shaping a small mountain of cow dung into Frisbee-size cakes that will fire the family’s cookstove. Perhaps she will make a couple of phone calls before preparing dinner, using her new mobile. She’ll get a five-bar signal:...
Watchskepttv:
Bugs! A Rainforest Adventure
Explore the extraordinary hidden world of insects, where a leaf weighs more than a car, rain drops feel like exploding hand grenades and a blade of grass soars like a skyscraper. Shot on location in the Borneo rainforest, BUGS! A RAINFOREST ADVENTURE brings the beautiful and dangerous universe of its tiny stars up close and personal with cutting-edge...
“More New Yorkers are killed every year by motor vehicles than are murdered by...”
– NYC Councilmember Vacca (via thegreenurbanist)
VERY IMPORTANT!
What do you get when you set up a bunch of artists... →
Find out.
Heads Above Water →
George Black on a surprisingly smart and honest Fox News report about the links between climate change and extreme weather. (Okay, a Fox News local affiliate…but still!)
The headline — “Scientists Research Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change” — had me braced for the usual Fox fare. So did the opening lines from the reporter, Dave Young: “There’s...
Free climate science webinar today at 3:30pm est: →
climateadaptation:
Wednesday February 15 - 3:30 pm EST
The Northeast Climate Science Center Colloquium presents,
“Looking back to inform the future: retrospective assessments of adaptation and mitigation strategies for forest ecosystems in the upper Lake States and New England”
Anthony D’Amato, University of Minnesota
For a direct link to the webinar, click on the title above.
For...
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Busted: Leak exposes how Heartland Institute works... →
climateadaptation:
“The inner workings of a libertarian thinktank working to discredit the established science on climate change have been exposed by a leak of confidential documents detailing its strategy and fundraising networks.
DeSmogBlog, which broke the story, said it had received the confidential documents from an “insider” at the Heartland Institute, which is based in Chicago. The blog...
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WatchMcKibben on Colbert last night, talking Keystone XL. You still have half an hour to join the 700,000+ people who have, in the last 23.5 hours, signed a petition to the Senate to stop their Keystone XL shenanigans.
Why women are world's best climate change defense →
A great and thoughtful piece by Mary Robinson.
Watchjtotheizzoe:
The All-New Scale of the Universe
Guys, I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly. What you’re about to play with is going to blow your brains right out of the back of your head. Proceed with caution. Abandon all productivity ye who enter here.
Cary and Michael Huang present an updated edition of the “Scale of the Universe” interactive web portal. In it, you can zoom...
Must read: Bill McKibben, The Great Carbon Bubble:... →
It’s no secret where this denialism comes from: the fossil fuel industry pays for it. (Of the 16 authors of the Journal article, for instance, five had had ties to Exxon.) Writers from Ross Gelbspan to Naomi Oreskes have made this case with such overwhelming power that no one even really tries denying it any more. The open question is why the industry persists in denial in the face of an endless...
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Okay, by now, we’ve all seen the picture.
Or, better yet….
(All the credit in the world to ShortFormBlog)
But what really happened at the White House Science Fair? Here’s a video of the president’s speech and a closer look at some of the most exciting, innovative projects.
Amidst the marshmallow blasts and the robotic appendages were the oil skimmers and...
