Bob Morris @ Feb 24th 2008 22:48 - Category: Unfiled Tags: burmese python;
Global warming is bringing burmese pythons to the southern US, says the US Geological Survey. These giant constrictors can weigh 200 pounds and have been known to tussle with alligators.
Bob Morris @ Feb 24th 2008 17:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
The cost of chicken feed has risen 49% in one year. Inflation?
Bob Morris @ Feb 24th 2008 14:45 - Category: Unfiled Tags: health care;
From Dare Obasanjo comes the above SlashDot screen shot. Note the circled tage at the bottom.
It’s not just Google. Microsoft and Steve Case, co-founder of AOL are also developing plans to have health records searchable and online.
The third-party services are troublesome because they aren’t covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPPA.
This, among other issues, makes confidentiality problematic. It would also make sharing of medical data between doctors and clinics vastly simpler, which would certainly be a good thing.
Bob Morris @ Feb 24th 2008 11:51 - Category: Election 2008 Tags: Nader;
If he runs as an independent he’ll have trouble getting ballot status in any state and if as a Green, they only have ballot status in 24 states. Plus, his time has passed and Obama will vacuum up the progressive votes anyway.
(And I say this as one who voted for him several times.)
Bob Morris @ Feb 24th 2008 10:54 - Category: Climate change ;
Yet this Pentagon version of what global warming will bring is so doom-laded and apocalyptic that it makes Peakists and others of their ilk seem positively jolly.
A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
Dunno, but this report is so over the top and out of line with other predictions, even dire ones, that I’m guessing it’s a ploy for the Pentagon to get themselves trillions more in appropriations. Yes, I freely admit to being a teensy bit suspicious of the Pentagon’s motives.
But it’s definitely good that they understand that global warming is real. Meanwhile, business is investing hundreds of billions into finding answers. Wouldn’t it be great if the Pentagon and the US government were to follow? It was Pentagon funding of ARPANET that led to the Internet, and space shuttles were where fuel cells were invented. Now it’s time for them to do the same with cleantech and renewable energy.
Bob Morris @ Feb 24th 2008 07:07 - Category: Peak oil ;
Sliding down Hubbert’s Curve….
Bob Morris @ Feb 24th 2008 03:16 - Category: Renewable energy ;
Suburbia may be well suited to a distributed, clean energy future.
This is because the open areas in suburbs make it easier to put in micro local power like wind and solar, an idea that stands in direct and fascinating contrast with the gloomy prediction that the ‘burbs are doomed. What will Jim Kuntsler do?
Bob Morris @ Feb 24th 2008 00:25 - Category: Renewable energy, Wind turbines ;
“It was the third record year in a row for the wind industry; Except 2007 was a ‘blowout’ [fantastic] year with 5244 megawatts of new electrical generating capacity added by the wind industry, which is more than twice as large as the largest prior record established in 2006.”
The City of Los Angeles just broke ground for the largest city owned wind plant in the US and expects to have 20% renewable power by 2010. That means a whole lot of coal and petroleum-based products won’t be burned to create electricity.
The speed at which municipalities, business, and governments are moving towards renewable power is accelerating, a welcome trend indeed.
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