Science Etcetera Marsday, 20080422

April 22nd, 2008

Happy Earth Day!!! Take a moment to call your Representative or Senator at 202-224-3121 and ask them to take action on Climate Change.

Earth Day 2008 Logo

Bush’s proposals to combat greenhouse gas emissions are pretty much just the same old same old. Luckily, according to Governor Schwarzeneggar and 18 states all that will change when Dubya leaves office.

This cartoon I think captures the Bush Administration’s plan to tackle climate change. (HT Oranchak).

Eating local reduces your carbon footprint about the same as giving up beef once a week.

Starvation is setting in around the globe in Haiti, India, Cairo, Africa, and elsewhere, as escalating food prices, a direct result of biofuels, are causing riots and pushing people to other extreme acts, like eating mud, to fight off hunger.

Another way to sequester carbon and help meet industrial demand, plant bamboo.

The North American jet stream is moving North and getting weaker.

Some veterans are angry with this week’s Time magazine cover, which compares the fight against Global Warming with the fight against fascism.

Time’s War on Global Warming Cover

Gallup finds no progress in people making green lifestyle choices. But personal choices matter less than group choices.

PETA is offering it’s own X-Prize, $1 million to the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.”

Cocaine addiction destroys National Parks, as drug traffickers move into protected areas and burn down the forests for their own purposes..

Decades worth of seismic noise recorded from storm surf show heat energy from Global Warming translating to increased wave energy as predicted.

Ed Begley walks the environmental walk.

Mercury contamination has climbed up the food chain in the ocean and into land animals.

GE reports a $12 billion wind turbine backlog.

Climate Change is Bringing Humbolt Squid to California: