Peak Radiation: Scientists Hope To Calculate Nuclear Fuel Left Inside Earth...
By 1992, environmental activist Jeremy Rifkin claimed, we would achieve Peak Oil. Fossil fuels would begin to decline. Rifkin was just going by an environmental press release but Peak Oil had a long...
View ArticleAdvocacy Group Survey Results Laud Viability Of Wind Power
Using software tools developed by the marketing group Near Zero, which has developed open-source software tools to examine where experts agree and disagree and why, a research group hosted by the...
View ArticleFeedback on the Forest Garden
My last post dealt with the permaculture edible forest garden, and it received some commentary on a couple of Facebook groups and permaculture forums. A lot of the responses were, predictably, from...
View ArticleA Win For Clean Energy
Today the House Committee on Ways and Means put a likely end to the production tax credit expiration for nuclear energy by approving H.R.5879 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the...
View ArticleBialowiezça: the Myth of the Primeval Forest
Over the past few weeks there have a been a series of reports raising concerns about the felling of old-growth trees in the ancient Bialowiezça forest in eastern Poland. A recent piece in the Guardian...
View ArticleWolves in the backyard
In a Youtube video that has been viewed more than 25 million times, George Monbiot explains with masterful clarity How Wolves Change Rivers. The short film tells the story of Yellowstone National...
View ArticleCalifornia Methane Caps Could Hurt Organic Farming Most
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law demanding that dairy cows stop producing so much methane. They are basically giant fracking wells on four legs, after all. read more
View ArticleGlobal Warming Has Made Global Warming Harder To Show
Postglacial rebound, uplift in Greenland blamed on global warming, has actually made it harder to measure ice loss due to global warming, according to a new paper in Science Advances.read more
View ArticleHow Did Early Earth Stay Warm? Greenhouse Gases
For at least a billion years of the distant past, planet Earth should have been frozen over but wasn’t, and one popular notion was that methane, with 23-34 times (yes, it is unclear) the heat-trapping...
View ArticleThe Cost of Australia’s GM Canola Moratorium
Substantial environment impacts due to rejection of GM canolaread more
View ArticleBen & Jerry's: Global Warming Is Changing The Flavor Of Ice Cream
Ice cream sellers Ben&Jerry's, which are a division of a giant multinational food conglomerate, seem to have a lot of marketing leeway, because they are claiming global warming is coming for your...
View Article42 Million Years: Central Asia Is Used To Westerly Winds By Now
The gusting westerly winds that dominate the climate in central Asia, setting the pattern of dryness and location of central Asian deserts, have blown mostly unchanged for 42 million years. A...
View ArticleRogue Environmentalism: How Environmental Defense Fund Hijacked American...
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), one of the nation's largest environmental groups, which has been bankrolled with $50 million from the heirs to the Walmart fortune, has spent millions of dollars...
View ArticleSoil Moisture Could Help Predict 'Flash Droughts'
New research suggests that "flash droughts", like the one that unexpectedly gripped the Southern Rockies and Midwest in the summer of 2012, could be predicted months in advance using soil moisture and...
View ArticleRichard Dawkins Misrepresents Science, Say British Scientists
Thanks, but no thanks, say British scientists about controversial British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, primarily known for his criticism of religion.A majority of those surveyed who...
View ArticleDoes Ice Act As Greenhouse On Mars - Fresh Liquid Water Habitats In Spring...
"What area on Mars is the most interesting for us?". My answer to this question isn’t an impressive geological feature like Olympus Mons or Valles Marineres. For me, it’s a rather unremarkable seeming...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Footprints
We power humanity mostly by burning fossil fuels, thereby turning chemical energy into heat that ultimately gets radiated into space. In doing so we achieve some results deemed useful: we cook food, we...
View ArticleSwimming Lizards Of The Antarctic Seas
Kaikaifilu is a new species of giant sea lizard (mosasaur) discovered in 66 million year-old rocks of Antarctica. At about 10 m long, it is the largest known top marine predator from this continent. It...
View ArticlePetri Nets Tool Wins Innovation Prize At Agriculture Conference
A mathematical model that assists in decision-making at a facility devoted to the cultivation and production of the common mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) has received the prize for the best scientific...
View ArticleFormaldehyde Forms During Chemical Breakdown Of E-Cigarette Flavors
Atmospheric scientists at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) have turned their attention toward the growing e-cigarette industry and found that toxic aldehydes, such as formaldehyde, are formed during...
View ArticleThe Alps Are Growing
The Alps are steadily "growing" by about one to two millimeters per year. Likewise, the formerly glaciated subcontinents of North America and Scandinavia are also undergoing constant upward movement....
View ArticlePresident Elect Trump - Why Climate Change Is No Longer A Political Issue...
Donald Trump has just been elected as US president, as a Republican climate skeptic. So if you are from the US you may get the impression that this is a political debate between “lefties” who think...
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Back to Square 1 - First Steps in Climate Science
Back to Square 1 - First Steps in Climate ScienceStep 1 - we humans discover that the Arctic accumulates more heat on a summer's day then the equatorial regions.Step 2 - we realise that our atmosphere...
View ArticleDear Mr. Trump, Please Can We Study Our Climate?
Dear Mr. Trump, Please Can We Study Our Climate?To the President-elect,Sir, please consider that if climate scientists of the past had not been supported by wealthy patrons we of the 21st century...
View ArticleEurope Embraces Decentralization - About Energy, At Least
Across Europe, town and city councils are becoming increasingly interested in energy decentralization, i.e. in producing power closer to where it is consumed, which could reduce energy costs for...
View ArticleHow We Predict Climate Decades Ahead - Yet Can't Forecast Weather Ten Days...
How can we predict the climate so far ahead when we can't do an accurate weather forecast even ten days ahead? Well it is remarkable that we can forecast our weather even one day ahead, and by looking...
View ArticleSomething is wrong in the Arctic
Something is wrong in the ArcticIt has long been predicted that as the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere climbs, so too will the average global temperature, with the greatest temperature increases being...
View ArticleEnvironmental Opportunity In A Trump Presidency
Though environmental activists are aghast that Republicans now control the White House, the Senate and the House for the first time since the 1920s, at least a few have come to some self-awareness that...
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Torvosaurus tanneri
The specimen of Torvosaurus tanneri is currently on display in Madrid, Spain. The genus Torvosaurus includes a unique species of megalosaurid therapod dinosaur.Torvosaurus are found in the Morrison...
View ArticleRocketing to Energy Sustainability
Metaphors are an important way to facilitate understanding of new processes. This metaphor is constructed based on the similarity of a rocket’s and civilization’s transition from one stable state to...
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