Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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The campaign started by filmmaker Franny Armstrong, who made the film "The Age of Stupid" , to create a critical mass to pressure the UK government to get serious about climate change is gaining serious momentum. The campaign asks people to reduce their carbon emissions by 10% in 2010 to help meet the overall goal of an 80% reduction in ...
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"Changes in log yield if crop is exposed for one day to a particular 1?C temperature interval..." Excerpted partial image and partial caption credit: PNAS , publication of Wolfram Schlenker and Michael J. Roberts, Supporting Information Appendix (pdf) Most people realize that grain yields can fall when croplands are either continuously very wet, or extremely dry, for extended periods. ...
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"Red lines represent existing CO2 pipeline infrastructure; the green lines represent the hypothetical pipeline scenarios..." Image credit: R. Lee Gresham, Jay Apt, M. Granger Morgan, Sean T. McCoy, from pre-publication draft paper: Implications of Compensating Property-Owners for Geologic Sequestration of CO2 Pretend it's 2040. US citizens live in a Carbon Constrained Era , in which Federal law enables legal ...
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'A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate' Do you know everything there is about climate science and the debate about global warming ? Stop reading this. Everybody else: Think you know all the ins and outs of climate change? Still plowing through all the models and possible scenarios for our climate's future? Leaning ... Read the full story ...
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Edward Abbey's 1975 novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang. Image credit: Answers.com Abbey's work, pictured here, was a fictional novel about four nature lovers who decide to wage relentless war against America's manic desire to spread the industrial system into every corner of the country. Answers.com offers that, because of the novel, "the term "monkey-wrenching" came to mean " ...sabotage, ...
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A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
How to grow tastier tomatoes and how to make food taste sweeter without sugar: just two amazing discoveries from a study of the chemical interactions underlying tomato flavor preferences Read the rest here: The Secrets of Tasty Tomatoes Discovered - Can ...
