Recent study project established by Climate Skeptic Richard Muller conclusively demonstrates that global warming is real and caused by human activity. Like there was any doubt.
Why aren’t we changing our activity?
We still ain't gonna admit we wuz wrong!
U.S. baking in record hot temperatures. Still no apology to Al Gore for mocking him on Global Warming from Rupert Murdoch’s minions.
I wrote a post (currently missing from the site until I can get the ‘lost years’ reloaded) suggesting that we need to track all the various environmental insults to the ocean (e.g. warming, acidification, non-point specific run-off, eutrophication, overfishing, etc.) and chart (and map) the cumulative impacts to determine just how bad things have gotten. It looks like the scientists are catching up to Needlenose, as you’ll note in this depressing report from a workshop on ocean stresses and impacts. Cliff notes summary for the lazy:
But enough of this dreary talk! Let’s go back to our ordinarily scheduled programming to cover more on Weiner’s weiner!
Record-breaking heat in Baltimore, Washington and Philly. No apologies seem to be forthcoming from Faux News and Reactionary pundits who mocked Al Gore during last winter’s snowstorms. Blinded by ideology? Cherry picking the facts? Or just stupid? You decide.
I ditto Ian Fletcher’s call for import tariffs to level the playing field against unfair overseas competition. But I don’t think his suggestion to use a tariff to make up the difference in the price of goods due to China’s currency manipulation and to compensate for other country’s foreign export rebates goes far enough.
The Capitalist Tools want us to compete by rolling back 100 years of labor reforms and eliminating environmental protections, basically a race to the bottom for the other 98% of the population so that our hard-working children and prisoners can breath the same smoggy air and drink the same polluted water enjoyed by labor in China and S.E. Asia.
To hell with that! Let’s keep our high standards, and instead hit foreign goods with ‘carbon,’ ‘pollution’ and unfair labor practices tariffs.
Sure, the prices of goods will rise as manufacturing shifts back to well-paid North Americans…but at least we’ll have jobs and some money with which to buy them!
Sounds like a movie title, huh? The pic you see isn’t some hillbilly gravel road - it’s a marine waterway chocked with dead marine life – result of the persistent de-oxygenated ‘dead zone’ around the Mississippi mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. Mostly this zone results from the run-off of fertilizers from our massively over-fertilized and massively subsidized agribusiness farms in our country’s bloated midsection. But it was perhaps exacerbated by microbial activity as the little critters use up the extra oxygen to break down all that oil from the BP disaster.
Another day, another ecological nightmare, huh? And all so very preventable.
*Update 9/27/10* Continuing fish die-offs in and around the Delta in the Gulf of Mexico.
carcass of a fish leaks oil when poked. yum!
Tell me this ain’t so…another rig in the Gulf of Mexico just exploded.
Just in case you forgot why nuclear energy is so bad, here is an unpleasant reminder from Chernobyl – the wildfires are near the contaminated area – a burn in the region could release radioactive ash.
Just as BP shuts down the undersea gusher, some drunken redneck smashes his boat into a small wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico. What are the odds that this could happen? Well they have a lot of boat-driving drunken rednecks down there in the Gulf, and a lot of wells and pipelines…
The People’s Republic of China has surpassed the U.S. in energy usage. Seems like only yesterday when CMike was berating me for negatively comparing Chinese output of CO2 to that of the U.S. That’s a first-place we really didn’t need 