| Oil Spills, the Media and the Oil Industry Dear EarthTalk: I haven’t heard much of late about big oil spills like the infamous Exxon Valdez. Has the industry cleaned up its act, or do the media just not report them? -- Olivia G., via e-mail [More] rss.sciam.com |
Can A Number Solve the Climate Change Conundrum? Author Bill McKibben never saw this coming. Founder of 350.org, an environmental campaign aimed at holding atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations below 350 parts-per-million, McKibben sent word that this Saturday would be the day to take to the streets.The call went viral in ways far beyond anything McKibben and fellow organizers imagined: As of Thursday morning some 4,317 actions and rallies are planned in 171 countries, with 300 events in China, 1500 across the United States, 500-plus in Central and South America. [More] rss.sciam.com |
For Cape Cod Wind Farm, New Hurdle Is Spiritual Two Indian tribes successfully argued that a wind-power project would impede their ritual greeting of the sunrise. nytimes.com |
Readers Respond to "Rational and Irrational Thought"--And More... Smarts vs. Sense Regarding “ Rational and Irrational Thought : The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss,” by Keith E. Stanovich: I have been teaching at the college level for more than a dozen years, and I’ve often wondered why some of my best and brightest students utterly fail in certain tasks that less “intellectual” students are able to excel in. [More] rss.sciam.com |
All-out geoengineering still would not stop sea level rise Mimicking volcanoes by throwing particles high into the sky. Maintaining a floating armada of mirrors in space . Burning plant and other organic waste to make charcoal and burying it --or burning it as fuel and burying the CO2 emissions . Even replanting trees . All have been mooted as potential methods of " geoengineering "--"deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment," as the U.K.'s Royal Society puts it. [More] Geoengineering - Royal Society - Charcoal - Current sea level rise - Climate change rss.sciam.com |