Feb 08 2013
You might have seen this already: Media Matters caught it and it’s making the rounds, including at my green energy joint at KCET. Fox News talking head Shibani Joshi says the reason Germany’s leading the U.S. in solar power installations by a factor of about 20 is that Germany has more sun than we do …
Feb 08 2013
A few days back my neighbor Teddy Quinn asked me if I’d be willing to provide a minute or so of audio on the whole “bobcat trapping in Joshua Tree” issue I mentioned this week. Said audio would be aired on his new project, Radio Free Joshua Tree, a community podcast. He asked me for …
Feb 07 2013
It’s always gratifying to see a scientific organization step up and use their collective expertise to make a clear statement on a political and economic issue. The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) has published an open letter to President Obama rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline is a ghastly stopgap that hinders …
Feb 03 2013
I mean, really, sometimes it just gets ridiculous. This guy jabbers on and on and on for almost 9 minutes about boring ol’ weather. (via PetaPixel.)
Jan 21 2013
If you’ve heard any history of the California desert at all, you’ve likely heard of the Owens Valley Water War. Here’s the canonical version of that War: The Owens Valley is watered by runoff from the immense snowfall from the Sierra Nevada to its west, much of which runs into the Owens River when it …
Jan 10 2013
Here’s how we end our dependency on fossil fuels: once it gets hot enough, we won’t be able to pump gas anymore! The country’s all-time record of 123.26 degrees Fahrenheit was set in 1960 at the Oodnadatta Airport in Southern Australia, but it’s already so hot that people can’t even pump gas. Nikki Staskiewicz and …
Jan 06 2013
It’s an interesting video from Peter Sinclair that claims that Americans are finally waking up from their refusal to recognized the evidence for global climate change. We’ll see. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few of the usual idiots popping up in the comments shrieking about “Warmists!”. But who knows? Maybe they’ll realize they’re …
Dec 27 2012
You know, many species of turtles are in trouble; they’re just slowly dying off. So one Clemson student, Nathan Weaver, did a very simple experiment: he watched what happens when a turtle crosses the road. Weaver put a realistic rubber turtle in the middle of a lane on a busy road near campus. Then he …
Dec 21 2012
There are days when having a glass desk is a serious health hazard, because I run the risk of serious facial lacerations when I read certain things. Take this extremely well-intended article at Care2.com: Human-accelerated climate change is a disaster waiting to happen. We’ve already seen the superstorms and drought it can create. Although we can work to slow climate change, …
Dec 17 2012
I wrote here about the accidental 2009 capture and subsequent euthanasia of Macho B, an aging male jaguar who’d wandered across the U.S. border into southern Arizona. Last week, in a really rather remarkable bit of investigative journalism, Dennis Wagner of the Arizona Republic reported that Macho B’s capture may not have been precisely accidental: Although …
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