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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Original photo: neovain / CC When it comes to human-caused global warming , news of the long-term effects is mixed. On the one hand, the planet will indeed recover from the damage we've done -- the only downside is that it will take 100,000 years, and chances are it will come at the expense of many species along the ...
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Photo: eli.pousson , Flickr, Creative Commons The LA Times just ran a good -- if frightening and totally unsurprising -- piece about the GOP's post-election plans in the environmental arena . Mostly, it plans to try to burn that entire arena to the ground. Republican party leaders say that they plan on attacking not only the EPA and its ...
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Castle in a pumpkin. Image credit: photo by John Laumer With Halloween 2010 only a day behind us and the mid-term elections tomorrow morning, likely-voter polls indicate Americans are up for a good ' hate it when that happens ' kick in the pants. Let's think about some of the key outcomes of the coming Congressional turnover. Just from ...
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Photo: Aloha Tech , Creative Commons Author Susan Casey at Poptech 2010 Melting ice caps, rising sea levels, warmer temperatures -- these are the kind of problems we regularly associate with global climate change. There are, of course, a host of other changes caused by the warming climate, many of which consistently fly under the radar. For instance, climate ...
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NOAA 's just released the latest Arctic Report Card --and the above video explaining the main points, saving me a lot of keystrokes explaining them--and the prognosis is that the Arctic is still very much warming and that ice and snow cover is still very much declining. Furthermore, ch... Read the full story on TreeHugger The rest is here: Cooler ...
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photo: Elliot Brown / Creative Commons With a new study just released revealing that half of Americans would get a failing grade if test on climate change knowledge and The Guardian reporting that the BBC blew its budget covering the Chilean miners' rescue and can only aff... Read the full story on TreeHugger Original post: Guardian Shames BBC For Proposing ...
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Photo via Public CEO It looks like Prop 23, the oil industry-sponsored initiative to kill AB 32, California's groundbreaking climate law, just isn't cutting it with voters. A recent poll shows that Californians oppose Prop 23 by a margin of 12%. Which is great news -- it shows that Californians aren't buying the bogus arguments and Read more: Californians Strongly ...
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Think Fox will cover the Climate Gate scientists' exoneration? Okay, I wouldn't be covering this if someone else -- anyone, really -- out there in the MSM would . Seriously. We were subjected to months and months worth of 'Climate Gate' "scandal" stories, and "investigative" reports on what it meant for the general body of climate science (which was ...
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Photo via the Telegraph Whether or not the anti-science crowd wants to believe it or not, global warming is happening. This year is shaping up to be the hottest in the global temperature record, and weather events in line with scientists' climate models have wracked the globe. And, yes, sea levels are rising . And when you can actually ...
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Photo: Lajos Nagy for AP Photo/MTI It sounds like a plot-line from a bad 1950's sci-fi movie, but unfortunately there's nothing fiction about it. Several towns in western Hungary were flooded today with a toxic red sludge after the waste product from nearby aluminum processing plant broke through its containment reservoir -- killing two, causing dozens of injuries, and ...
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Save the sea creatures! Handcraft your own natural specimens using these these simple patterns, some yarn and a crochet hook. View post: 8 Enchanting Sea Creatures You Can Crochet
A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
