Obama: “Climate change poses a threat to our way of life.” - Starts the pivot from spill to bill: "We’re not going to be able to sustain this kind of fossil fuel use. This planet can’t sustain it.... I'm going to keep fighting to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation"
http://climateprogress.org/2010/05/27/obama-climate-change-poses-a-threat-to-our-way-of-life/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29
Obama s
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/enso_faq/#_Hlk419685041
El Niño impacts are typically quite severe over southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Borneo and northern Australia. Throughout much of that region drought is common, agriculture is affected and tropical forest fires become a problem. Although western Pacific typhoons (overall) are no more frequent than normal, they tend to affect areas farther to the east, as far as Tahiti, that are otherwise less affected. To the we
http://www.ecobee.com
This thermostat can control more than one device i.e., aircon & fan. I don't think it's available in Thailand yet. You can also control your house temp. over the internet or by iPhone.
Siamese squeeze
By David Warren, The Ottawa CitizenMay 22, 2010
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Siamese+squeeze/3059273/story.html
There is much to be said for ignorance. My reader is to understand I don't mean a mere inability to answer the sort of quiz questions that can be graded to generate educational statistics. No, I mean a more thorough, peasant ignorance of the way the world works, and in particular, of the way it works today.
Or alternatively, let's say: there is much to be said
Somtow's World
Don't Blame Dan Rivers
http://www.somtow.org/2010/05/dont-blame-dan-rivers.html
Cedit to Lobert for this link, thanks.
I have been composing a long, day by day account of the "troubles" of the last three days, which I have not yet posted. The reason is that I've been getting a lot of mail asking me to explain "the truth" to people overseas. A lot of people here are astonished and appalled at the level of irresponsibility and inaccuracy shown by such major news sources
The Aspinall Foundation is a charity that promotes wildlife conservation and reintroduces captive gorillas back into the wild in West Africa. Five years ago, conservationist Damian Aspinall released a gorilla, Kwibi, into the jungles of Gabon. Aspinall returned recently to reunite with a now ten-year-old Kwibi.
As one of the original 1000 Climate Project trainees, working to deliver the truth of climate change science, I realized there are a small number of what I call “Climate Crocks”, crunchy nuggets of disinformation that take only 10 seconds to say, but might take a real scientist an hour to refute.
I launched “Climate Denial Crock of the Week” as a platform to refute, in entertaining style, the canards of climate deniers.
If you're reading this you probably use the internet everyday, ever wonder how much IT infrastructure it takes to bring the TF to your screen.
Providing our users with fast, innovative products requires significant computing power. Data centers – which are large facilities containing lots of computers – account for most of Google’s energy needs. We take our energy use seriously and, from the very beginning, Google has focused on designing systems that use as little energy as possible. A deca
ACID TEST, a film produced by NRDC, was made to raise awareness about the largely unknown problem of ocean acidification, which poses a fundamental challenge to life in the seas and the health of the entire planet. Like global warming, ocean acidification stems from the increase of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
http://www.nrdc.org/oceans/acidification/aboutthefilm.asp
A journalist and author of three previous books, Weisman travels from Europe’s last remnant of primeval forest to the horse latitudes of the Pacific, interviewing everyone from evolutionary biologists and materials scientists to archaeologists and art conservators in his effort to sketch out the planet’s post-human future. In even the most heavily fortified corners of the settled world, the rot would set in quickly.
With no one left to run the pumps, New York’s subway tunnels would fill with w
Website url: http://wholeearth.com/issue-electronic-edition.php?iss=1010
How our ideas about stuff changes over time The Whole Earth Catalog 1968 website is pretty cool, you can browse 66 pages online.
For Earth Day, 7 New Rules to Live By
By JOHN TIERNEY
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/science/20tier.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print
On the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, is the middle-aged green movement ready to be revived b
Professor Hans Rosling from the Karolinska Institutet uses Legos to describe the evolving relationship between the world's poorest and richest nations. 'Will the poorest billion have gained peace through internal democratic development and peace-keeping?' he asks, imagining that 'the West' will, in the years to come, play a diminishing role.
The iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again?
By Stephen Fry
It is a gorgeous spring day when I arrive at the coolest address in the universe: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, Calif., where Apple has been headquartered since 1993. The campus, for such they call it, is enormous yet not big enough to contain Apple's current rate of expansion. An additional site is being designed and built. After stocking up on "I visited the mothership" T-shirts at the company store (we fanboys are pathetic, I readily
In this article, originally published in Scientific American, Amory Lovins dispels the myth that protecting the earth's climate will force a trade-off between the environment and the economy. Instead, he shows that efficiency is profitable.
Link: http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/C05-05_MoreProfitLessCarbon
Link to Khun Soontorn Boonyatikarn'Thai Solar House, Photos Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/95976276@N00/sets/72057594061086267/
The Unbearable Lightness of Reform
Bill Moyers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-moyers/the-unbearable-lightness_b_515642.html?view=print
That wickedly satirical Ambrose Bierce described politics as "the conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
Bierce vanished to Mexico nearly a hundred years ago -- to the relief of the American political class of his day, one assumes -- but in an eerie way he was forecasting America's political culture today. It seems like most efforts to refor