If a hurricane comes, it will only the oily mess in the Gulf of Mexico worse: "If you get a storm which is coming toward the coast you can get a significant storm surge," {William] Drennan told [Brian Beutler] in an interview Thursday afternoon. "If you get a storm surge, then the top meter ofContinue reading “Oh boy (I read the news today — the oil news)”
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Where the oil will go, scientists say
According to National Center for Atmospheric Research, this animation is the scenario that best fits their model of ocean currents, and their best guess as to what will happen once the gusher of oil from BP's rig in the Gulf of Mexico is "entrained" in the Loop Current that runs around Florida and up theContinue reading “Where the oil will go, scientists say”
The Environment: Not what is, but what is experienced
Language is not always fossil poetry, no matter what Ralph Waldo Emerson says. Sometimes a word is just a catchall for what we cannot better express; "a place-holder," as they say in drama. For example: "environmental." This is a word I think even more hated within the movement than without. So it's worth noting when aContinue reading “The Environment: Not what is, but what is experienced”
Once they denied relativity; now they deny climate change
The "crackpots," that is. That's according to physicist Joergen van Dongen, in a fascinating paper for the Institute for History and the Foundation of Science, published last fall, available through ScienceDirect. It's called "On Einstein's opponents, and other crackpots." The paper begins with a quote from Einstein that sounds almost as if he could beContinue reading “Once they denied relativity; now they deny climate change”
Why is belief in global warming fading?
In a front-page story, The New York Times rightly features the decline in belief in global warming this spring in the UK. The UK is one of the most secular nations on earth, and in the recent past readily accepted the existence of global warming. Just fifteen percent of the populace, according to a pollContinue reading “Why is belief in global warming fading?”
Satan or Industry: Which will destroy society?
A typically mordant perspective from Onion News Network: http://media.theonion.com/flash/video/onn_player.swfChristian Groups: Biblical Armageddon Must Be Taught Alongside Global Warming
Love is the engine, but love is not remembered
So writes Charles Bowden, in the award-winning Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing. This is an "environmental" book, but I don't believe Bowden ever mentions that word. Yet unlike nearly every other book about nature I can think save a couple written by John Muir or Edward Abbey, this "environmental" book does bring up "love"Continue reading “Love is the engine, but love is not remembered”
Union of Concerned Scientists misses a climate beat
Rarely if ever in my life have I found fault with the Union of Concerned Scientists on any point, but in a story their site published today about climate change and the American Pika, I think they tell only half the story — the alarming half. In their words: Signs of spring are beginning toContinue reading “Union of Concerned Scientists misses a climate beat”
“Earth is Warming”: The National Academy of Sciences
From the introduction to three new studies released by the National Academy of Sciences: Earth is warming. Detailed observations of surface temperature assembled and analyzed by several different research groups show that the planet’s average surface temperature was 1.4 ºF (0.8 ºC) warmer during the first decade of the 21st century than during the firstContinue reading ““Earth is Warming”: The National Academy of Sciences”
Cartoonist jokes about oil spill, wonders “too soon?”
It's not easy being in the funny business. Jessica Hagy is funny, but wonders if it's "too soon":
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