Janis R.
Image: Shefaet, Flickr This one goes out to mig. Mig wrote us and explained that yesterday a distant facebook friend posted this: “Oceans are the single largest CO2 reduction system in the world. Water Vapor is the biggest contributor of CO2 in...
I’ve written before about the ever-increasing politicization of climate change –the thesis that the scientifically backed consensus that human activity is warming the planet is now treated as a political belief isn’t a hard one to prove....
Photo via FreeSpeech Ban Ki-moon has announced that a comprehensive, independent review of the IPCC is to be carried out, after calls from world governments were made to do so. The Secretary General for the UN said that scientists from academies around...
photo: Wikipedia This is one you definitely don’t hear about too often: Over at Green Biz Marc Gunther is highlighting the efforts of Contour Global to extract methane from Lake Kivu, on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo....
Michael Pollan’s first food rule is simple: Eat Food , which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or “highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients...
photo: chantrybee via flickr. Even if the sun entered a Grand Solar Minimum –like the one experienced in the late 17th century known as the Maunder Minimum, which brought about the Little Ice Age–it would still only offset less than a tenth...
Guess who’ll pay for the new energy tax? the ad reads, in lettering right above four portraits of hardworking Americans. Perhaps it’s Getty Images, the stock photo company from which all four photos of supposedly ‘real’ Americans...
photo: Mari Tefre/Svalbard Global Seed Vault The doomsday Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway–begun as protection against any potential future calamity that threatens global food production–just turned two years old and has also just passed...
Photo via Whatson The so-called “conventional wisdom” has been pretty unremitting in deeming any sort of comprehensive energy reform legislation dead in the water this year. But that’s still not looking to be the case –some rather...
