Air traffic alert after Alaska volcano spews ash cloud
• The RawStory.comA remote volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian islands erupted early on Thursday, spouting an ash cloud 15,000 feet into the sky and prompting an air-traffic alert, scientists said.
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Despite GOP opposition, light bulb standards will phase in on Jan. 1
• www.thehill.comNew light bulb efficiency standards will begin phasing in on Jan. 1 despite intense opposition from conservatives, who have blasted the rules as a textbook unnecessary federal regulation.
Link Between Earthquakes and Tropical Cyclones: Identify Regions at High Risk for Earthquakes
• ScienceDailyA groundbreaking study led by University of Miami (UM) scientist Shimon Wdowinski shows that earthquakes, including the recent 2010 temblors in Haiti and Taiwan, may be triggered by tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons)
Anti-whaling activists’ drone tracks Japan fleet
• The RawStory.comAnti-whaling activists intercepted Japan’s harpoon fleet far north of Antarctic waters on Sunday, they said, with the help of a military-style drone.
Brazil's environment agency fines Chevron for oil spill
• Yahoo! NEWSBrazil's Environment Institute on Friday ordered US oil giant Chevron to pay another fine related to the early November oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
Highest Court In Europe Rules ALL Airlines Flying Into Europe Must Pay For Their Carbon Emissions
• www.prisonplanet.comCosts that will inevitably be passed on to customers in the form of a carbon tax.
EU airline carbon emissions decision could mean the end to peanuts as we know them! (Video)
• The Political CommentatorJust what the global economy didn't need is a new EU tax on airlines for carbon emissions! About a week ago the topic of the EU carbon market and the European Union Emission Trading Scheme was discussed at The Political Commentator. The eight
To Survive, Some Biofuels Companies Give Up on Biofuels
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comGevo, a prominent advanced-biofuels company that has received millions in U.S. government funding to develop fuels made from cellulosic sources such as grass and wood chips, is finding that it can't use these materials if it hopes to survive.
"The Great Culling" Official Air Trailer
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Chevy Volt Costing Taxpayers Up to $250K Per Vehicle
• Michigan Capitol ConfidentialEach Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether, according to an analysis by James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center f
Military Bases Provide Refugia
• arcleinFrom Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine has seen its historical habitat reduced to a mere 3 percent of its original 92 million-acre range. Centuries of logging and farming have exacted a heavy toll on these ecosystems, and in recent decades the Sou
The Death of Range Fuels Shouldn't Doom All Biofuels
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comThis month, Range Fuels, one of the first companies in a wave of startups that promised cheap biofuels made from sources such as wood chips rather than corn, shut its doors for good and was forced to auction off its assets.
Desalting the Oceans?
• arcleinActually the density of halite (rock salt) is around 1.5 so that mass of salt would be a third less volume --say 390 km diameter--but that is just the salt in the ocean neglecting massive deposits in the continents.
Ron Paul and the Environment
• lewrockwell.com/Walter BlockA strong advocate of private property rights, Dr. Paul correctly sees this as the cornerstone of a sound libertarian-based environmental policy.
Chinese Government Plans to Cause Ten Percent More Rain By 2015
• www.popsci.comNow China plans to make some purposeful atmospheric changes — namely making it rain, for the purpose of growing crops.
Canada Pulls Out of Kyoto Protocol, Making it the First Country to Legally Opt Out
• www.popsci.comCanada has gone and done exactly what many feared it would do and pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol, making it the first country to formally do so. And today, the finger-pointing begins.
Chinese Government Plans to Cause Ten Percent More Rain By 2015
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comChina is already doing plenty of things to the atmosphere above it, but most changes are byproducts of the country’s marathon industrial revolution. Now China plans to make some purposeful atmospheric changes
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Part 1 of 3: Responding to critics’ attacks about human overpopulation in America
Frosty WooldridgeNature doesn’t care whether you believe in God, are an atheist, agnostic, Christian, Buddhist or Hindu. You can cry a river of righteousness, but Darwin and Malthus will prove smarter and more brutal than the Bible or Koran.
Petroleum-Eating Mushrooms
• arcleinIn the spring, we plant willow cuttings at 25-centimeter intervals so the roots dive into the ground and soak up the degrading contaminants in the timber along with the bacteria. At the end of the season, we burn the stems and leaves and we are left
Newt Gingrich: Let Mad Scientists Terraform The Planet
• www.prisonplanet.comNewt Gingrich’s embracement of global warming pseudo-science isn’t limited to cringeworthy PSA’s with Nancy Pelosi, not does it stop at his advocacy for carbon taxes. Gingrich is also a vehement proponent of geoengineering.
BP: Halliburton Destroyed Key Oil Spill Evidence
• NY TimesBP in a high-stakes court filing is accusing Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slurry that went into drilling the oil well that blew out last year and caused the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
New Icelandic volcano eruption could have global impact
• www.bbc.co.ukHundreds of metres under one of Iceland's largest glaciers there are signs of a looming volcanic eruption that could be one of the most powerful the country has seen in almost a century.
Senate vote to defund EPA Corps Wetlands Regulations
• www.goldprospectors.orgCall both your senators at (202) 224-3121. The EPA and Corps have published new regulations expanding the term “Navigable” so it could cover a bird feeder in your back yard.
In an Effort to Ramp up Energy Energy Production China to Embrace Fracking
Staffoilpricedotcom ErikOn 24 November China’s Ministry of Land and Resources geological exploration department head Peng Qiming said during a press conference that China’s combined oil and natural gas output, 280 million tons in 2010, is projected to rise to 360 million to
#Radiation in Japan: Tokyo Will Burn Miyagi's Disaster (and Radioactive) Debris
• ex-skf.blogspot.comIt will be burned in the waste incineration plants operated by the municipalities, and the ashes will be buried in the landfill on the Tokyo Bay. (November 24)
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Time Magazine’s Fareed Zakaria: An intellectually credentialed innumerate
Frosty Wooldridge“The power of population is so superior to the power of earth to produce subsistence to humanity that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.” Thomas Malthus 1798
TEPCO: Radioactive substances belong to landowners, not us
• ajw.asahi.comDuring court proceedings concerning a radioactive golf course, Tokyo Electric Power Co. stunned lawyers by saying the utility was not responsible for decontamination because it no longer "owned" the radioactive substances.
Namie machi, Fukushima is 33 times worse than Chernobyl
• fukushima-diary.comMinistry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology published the soil contamination data of 60 km area from Fukushima plants. The data was taken from 6/1/2011 ~ 11/22/2011.
Fresh round of hacked climate science emails leaked online
• guardian.co.ukA file containing 5,000 emails has been made available in an apparent attempt to repeat the impact of 2009's similar release
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Trashing America—Litter Everywhere
Frosty WooldridgeToday, in 2011, plastic, glass, rubber, chemicals, metal, paper, oil, gasoline and a growing number of contaminants cover North America. One man volunteering for PickUpAmerica.com said, “I didn’t know that America was so polluted."
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