Archive for the 'global warming' Category
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
“Here we go!” my mom said excitedly as we all sat down for dinner this past weekend.
“Whaddya mean ‘here we go’?” I asked.
“It’s our first electric bill since we installed solar panels,” mom replied, as she tore open the envelope. “YES!!” she shouted, pumping her fist in the air. “THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS!”
“What does the bill usually [...]
Tony Hayward is a Piece of Shit.
Don’t fight the power, just shoot the motherfucker…
Via Weather Underground:
Satellite imagery today from NASA’s MODIS instrument confirms that a substantial tongue of oil has moved southeast from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and entered the Gulf of Mexico’s Loop Current. The Loop Current is an ocean current that transports warm Caribbean water through the Yucatan [...]
Don’t Shit Where You Eat
First press play:
Then open this in a different window, for the soundtrack effect.
Two weeks ago, the government put out a round estimate of the size of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico: 5,000 barrels a day. Repeated endlessly in news reports, it has become conventional wisdom.
But scientists and environmental groups are raising [...]
Coming to Your Coastline!
Obama Administration, march 30, 2010:
The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.
The proposal — a compromise that will please oil [...]
New Philly Weekly: Climate Change Follies
I’ve always been confused by the debate between which term is more appropriate to describe humanity’s carbon dioxide driven destruction of our world: global warming or climate change? “Climate change” has such a passive sound to it, but “global warming” is confusing: how come it snows so much if the globe is getting warmer?
So for [...]
Quickies Before the Weekend
I’ll be bluegrass festivaling this weekend, so i wanted to link to a few quickies.
Damn right you’re gonna get it PJ. President Bush likes his naps and his vacations, and if you wake him up, he’s liable to crush your testicles.
Speaking of President Bush and sleeping on the job, it’s the Third Anniversary of Hurricane [...]
We Are SO Going to Die
North Pole Could be Ice-Free This Summer
There is no land at the North Pole, but as long as anyone has looked, it has remained a giant block of ice year-round. Scientists have been watching Arctic sea ice melt more and more each year. But each summer in recent years, the amount of ice [...]
Wow.
“Think about it: a 5,000-pound vehicle that gets 60 miles to the gallon and does zero to 60 in five seconds!”
Wow. read the whole thing. hat tip to Kos.
Goodwin leads me over to a red 2005 H3 Hummer that’s up on jacks, its mechanicals removed. He aims to use the turbine to turn the Hummer [...]
Water, Water. Where?
US Could See Water Shortage
When people talk about the problems associated with global warming, the conversation tends to focus on stronger storms, rising sea levels, and the loss of coastal cities. But one problem that seems to me to get short shrift is the impact on our water supply.
When weather patterns change in such [...]
More Wooder
Via Atrios, the NY Times looks into the drought in the Southeast.
For the better part of 18 months, cloudless blue skies and high temperatures have shriveled crops and bronzed lawns from North Carolina to Alabama, quietly creating what David E. Stooksbury, the state climatologist of Georgia, has dubbed “the Rodney Dangerfield of natural [...]
