The state of Louisiana is in a bad marriage that can only end badly. From The Nation: No state in the union has been more firmly wedded to the oil and gas industry than Louisiana. No more zealous preachers of the clean oil gospel can be found than the state’s politicians, who were elected by [...]
Found this hiding on Science Magazine’s Web site from 2007: Stopping the runaway train of world carbon emissions is getting harder by the day, a new global analysis suggests. The culprit is a voracious global appetite for carbon-heavy fossil fuels. In 2003 and 2004, the amount of carbon released for every joule of energy used [...]
News from Science Magazine of the imminent release of a new study: The jury is still out on whether humans wiped out the mammoths. But researchers have found evidence that the disappearance of the woolly giants probably helped to change the climate. If the beasts were indeed hunted to extinction, that means human-driven climate change [...]
From the NY Times: An American scientist accused of manipulating research findings on climate science was cleared of that charge by his university on Thursday, the latest in a string of reports to find little substance in the allegations known as Climategate. An investigative panel at Pennsylvania State University, weighing the question of whether the [...]
From the live feed courteously provided by BP, May 31, 2010, ca. 10:45 CST. We need to face it: “They” have no idea what they’re doing. “They.” You know who “they” are. “They” are the ones who are supposed to know these things. “They” are the ones who say all those neat thing, you know, [...]
From Scientific America: Nuclear bombs dropped on cities and industrial areas in a fight between India and Pakistan would start firestorms that would put massive amounts of smoke into the upper atmosphere. The particles would remain there for years, blocking the sun, making the earth’s surface cold, dark and dry. Agricultural collapse and mass starvation [...]
Washington, D.C.–January 30, 2010. At this time last year, amidst headlines about banks on the verge of collapse and job losses of 700,000 a month, we received another troubling piece of news about our economy. Our economy was shrinking at an alarming rate – the largest six-month decline in 50 years. Our factories and farms [...]
From the Chicago Sun-Times: Declaring “I don’t quit,”‘ an embattled President Barack Obama vowed in his first State of the Union address Wednesday night to make job growth his topmost priority and urged a divided Congress to boost the still-ailing economy with fresh stimulus spending. Defiant despite stinging setbacks, he said he would not abandon [...]
FactCheck.org published an article regarding the controversy over e-mails between scientists at the Climate Research Unit of the U.K.’s University of East Anglia which were stolen and made public by an as-yet-unnamed hacker. The emails don’t change the consensus: our actions have contributed directly to global warming. From the article: The e-mails (which have been [...]
A new experiment in Green Technology in Chicago Heights is generating excitement among some, and raising concerns with environmentalists. According to the Southtown Star, the project entails turning garbage into fuel. The net energy produced, however, comes from burning the carbon-based pellets made from the trash. First, the company’s perspective: “This serves an environmental problem,” [...]
