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The Freeway Blogger is giving cash prizes for slogans about climate change, which he will then post hundreds of times near freeways Just finished up my West Coast Tour, posting 120+ signs between Seattle and San Diego and looking forward to doing it again. This time I’d like to focus on climate change and [...] Image credit: NASA NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, released an updated report on Thursday and it’s official–2011 was the ninth warmest year on record. Nine of the ten warmest years have happened since 2000; 1998 is the only year in the 20th century on that list. “We know the planet [...] These two apps are awesome. There’s Star Walk - 5 Stars Astronomy Guide which costs $2.99 (and worth every penny). Star Walk Star Walk enables you to point your iPhone at the sky and see what stars, constellations, and satellites you are looking at in real-time. Please note, you will need a 3GS/4/4th gen iPod Touch [...] I have several times proposed a twentieth century version of Pascal’s Wager: the Climate Change Denier’s Wager. Pascal was of course the fifteenth century ardent atheist, scientist and math master The Church so feared that upon his death cut off his head and it is now stored pickled somewhere in the Vatican basement. At some [...] From those crazed environmental radicals at Scientic American. Agricultural expansion and climate change are altering the Amazon. The dry season is longer. Soil runoff is increasing. Trees are growing faster, absorbing more carbon (which is good.) But the Amazon is in flux, and no one is quite sure how, why, or where it’s going. NASA (Photo Credit: Yale University/Karen Seto) Drew Shindell of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City and his team looked at hundreds of proposed measures to deal with climate change using a model developed by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). A new study led by a NASA scientist highlights 14 [...] The EPA has a nifty interactive map to help you find big polluters nationwide. When elk are excluded, aspen growth dramatically increases (Coconino National Forest, Arizona, May 2011) Photo: Tom Martin, USGS A just-published U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and University of Montana study demonstrates how the declining snowpack in the Arizona mountains over a 22-year span has affected songbirds, producing a “classic ecological cascade” according to Thomas Martin, USGS Montana [...] The amount of toxic chemicals released into the environment increased 16 percent in 2010, according to a report from the EPA. That reverses a downward trend from years before and was driven by metal mining and the chemical industry. Releases of dioxin, a toxin linked to cancer and other diseases, increased 10 percent. Sadly, the Pacific Northwest appears [...] enviromedia.com Texas is currently suffering its worst drought in recorded history with much of it in what the U.S. Drought Monitor classifies as D3, Extreme Drought, or D4, Exceptional Drought. Several municipalities are in danger of completely running out of water in less than six months. Some may have no water in fewer than [...] |  | ||||
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