AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low – Yahoo! News: CO2 from the US is down. WOW!. See the full EIA report on CO2 Emissions. The last time we had that was in 2009, we all assumed that was mainly because of the economic slowdown. But apparently, even then, part of it was because of the switching to NatGas. “[T]he U.S. Energy Information Agency, a part of the Energy Department, said this month…
NASA GISS: Research News: Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming: Op Ed: We must stop rolling the dice on Global Warming. (1 page) Full Paper/Presentation: Perception of climate change. (5.8 mb, PDF) James Hansen (& Soto & Ruedy, 2012) from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Exploration just completed a big study on world temperature change. This research uses simple, straight forward stats, and our friendly bell-shaped curve from elementary statistics. (It doesn’t use…
Advocacy: Sustainability: Check out this 3 part series on Sustainability. Part 1 talks about “What if they are right?” Part 2 addresses “How we liver our lives?” Part 3 takes on “A plan for the interim period?” Basically, what are we gonna do right here, right now. These are pretty long articles so sit back with a good late’ and let it rip. ‘via Blog this’
“Humans Are Almost Entirely The Cause Of Climate Change” Richard Muller Former Climate Change Denier – YouTube: This is a very interesting video/news from MoxNews. The Exxon Valdez has an oil spill, has a name change, has a name change, has a shipwreck, has a name change, and is now being dismantled/retired. The wreck, by any other name, is still Valdez. NatGas +/- . . . Not so sure about the Frac’ng story… But hang in…
Apple, Samsung, Kodak, Imation: Intellectual Property – Businessweek: Here you go with a huge patent war. Smartphones, iPads and more. Apple has been trying to injoin Samsung from sales of Galaxy product line. No injunction yet, but Apple is winning so far in the USA. Kinda. This law suit will be telling. In the meanwhile the Apple-Samsung war is being fought across the globe. In Germany this week, Apple lost miserably and was ordered to make a public apology….
Ikea starts generating solar power at Tampa store | TBO.com: Well, if Ikea can do it, why can the rest of us. Solar on the roof-tops of buildings (stores and homes) seems like a great way to start cutting back on traditional electricity (~45% coal). It shouldn’t take a Swedish company to tell us (show us, really) what we should be doing to become more sustainable. Check out their 2011 Sustainability Report. They are doing…
