February 2012
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A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of... →
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1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
Read on.
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No Evidence That Fracking Contaminates... →
“It’s not fracking itself, but the sloppy practices surrounding it—or pre-existing issues that hadn’t been studied before fracking started—that cause groundwater contamination, a study released in Vancouver has found.
In other words, fracking is only as good, or harmful, as the companies that practice it. And groundwater needs to be studied in places where fracking is planned, as well...
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Ecuador court rejects $18 billion Chevron oil... →
(Reuters) - A court in Ecuador has rejected an order by arbitrators that an $18 billion pollution ruling against Chevron should be frozen, but the judges referred an appeal by the U.S. oil company to the country’s Supreme Court.
A year after the landmark decision against Chevron, a panel working for The Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitration told Ecuador last week to take all...
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GOP Not Listening to Its Own Scientists on Climate... →
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Greg Melander: What We Still Don't Know →
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The big questions still unanswered. What’s at Earth’s Core? Is time an illusion? How does a fertilized egg become a human? What happened to the Neanderthals? Why do we sleep? Where did life come from? How can observation affect the outcome of an experiment? How do entangled particles communicate? Why do placebos work? What is the universe made of? What is the purpose of noncoding...
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Supreme Court to Hear Affirmative Action Case →
Heads up:
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In a 2003 decision that the majority said it expected would last for 25 years, the Supreme Court allowed public colleges and universities to take account of race in admission decisions. On Tuesday, the court signaled that it might end such affirmative action much sooner than that.
By agreeing to hear a major case involving race-conscious admissions at the University...
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Indigenous People Vulnerable to Climate Change →
“Researchers say indigenous people are among the most vulnerable to climate change. They’re studying how extreme weather events can trigger more disease outbreaks.
Scientists say extreme weather events have accompanied a rise in global temperatures. Droughts, heavy rains and floods have put indigenous people around the world at risk.
“I would say that indigenous people are particularly...
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National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate... →
In partnership with state, tribal, and federal agency partners, the Obama Administration released the first draft national strategy to help decision makers and resource managers prepare for and help reduce the impacts of climate change on species, ecosystems, and the people and economies that depend on them. The draft National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, is available for...
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Peter Gleick Admits to Deception in Obtaining... →
Mixed feelings abound as famed scientist admits to being the source of leaking the Heartland Institute’s internal climate denial strategy plus other documents.
Since the release in mid-February of a series of documents related to the internal strategy of the Heartland Institute to cast doubt on climate science, there has been extensive speculation about the origin of the documents and...
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An Exodus From the 'Burbs? →
Excellent story from USNews.
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Suburbs May be Losing Their Luster to Home Buyers.
“Many dwellings built during the boom years—whether now offered for sale by banks or homeowners wishing to move—are in the wrong locations or badly configured,” Peter Morici, professor of economics at the University of Maryland, wrote in an E-mail. “Much of that housing was premised on cheap energy—far from...
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“McDonald’s is among the most important food companies in the world, and one...”
– Mark Bittman, “OMG, McDonald’s Does the Right Thing”
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Anonymous asked: Maybe you've answered this before but: Which U.S. presidential candidate (that has any chance of winning) would, in your opinion, be the best (least bad, that is) for the environment?
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#Texas #Rice Farms Look for Miracle →
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Rains in Texas have failed to refill water reservoirs for the state’s main rice-growing areas, prompting the first-ever restrictions on irrigation that may lead to the smallest planted acreage since the 1920s.
The Lower Colorado River Authority, which manages lakes supplying water to 1.1 million people, including the city of Austin, Texas, plans to stop releasing water for...
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Monsanto's Roundup Found in People's Urine →
Looks interesting, though it could be lefty anti-Monsanto panic - stuff I try to avoid posting here. I do not know if glyphosate is all that dangerous, nor what levels would be OK to consume. Wikipedia has a clear article on glyphosate, which points to an article that states impacts on humans is not known. The Wiki entry has a short lawsuit section covering Monsanto’s key ingredient...
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Conservative hunters pull together to form climate... →
Surprising interview at Field and Stream Magazine with Todd Tanner, chairman of Conservation Hawks. Tanner, a conservative, thinks climate change is affecting hunting (e.g., ecosystems) in a big way. He wants to raise awareness among hunters to help stop or adapt to changing conditions.
‘If Climate Change Isn’t Real, I’ll Give You My Beretta’
The Conservation Hawks is a new group...
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“Medina and her fellow tea partyers oppose TransCanada’s use of eminent domain to...”
– Essentially, republicans support the government using eminent domain to take private property and hand it over to a foreign oil company. In a surprising alliance, some Tea Party factions joined enviros to oppose the Keystone XL Pipeline via an anti-eminent domain argument.
More at RollCall
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FACT: The U.S. produced more oil in 2010 than it...
Anonymous asked: thoughts on the fund for public interest? i apparently have an interview there and seems sketchy and perhaps gives climate change activism a bad name, but those are my opinions
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“In coming years, we will have to ask ourselves if public policies should be...”
– Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, in The Guardian’s, “Attacks paid for by big business are ‘driving science into a dark era”
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5 Amazing Places in the US in Danger of Being... →
Nice little article that ends with what I dream every environmental writer would do, answer the question: “What do we do now?”…
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Ezra Klein's new tumblr! Hallelujah, we tumblr-ers... →
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Free NOAA Science Seminars for this Week →
Canaries in a Cold Place - Using Marine Mammals as Sentinels of Marine Ecosystem Contamination Date and Time: February 23, 2012, 11:00-12:00 Pacific Time Zone Location: NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NWFSC (2725 Montlake Blvd. E, Seattle, WA) Speaker(s): Dr. Brendan Hickie (Trent University Oshawa Campus) Add this seminar to your google calendar The NOAA Habitat Blueprint: A Framework...
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UPDATE: 19 Corporations linked to Heartland as... →
More excellent coverage of “denialgate.”
“In the wake of reports linking theHeartland Institute to an alleged anti-science campaign, several scientists, as well as the President of the Union of Concerned Scientists, are publicly asking Heartland to to desist from spreading misinformation and attacking scientists. This news comes as 19 public corporations have been identified for...
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Secret climate denial documents suggest the... →
Coverage of “denialgate” is increasing. Reblog if you can…
“Heartland, which bills itself as anti-regulatory and libertarian, annually produces climate change “denier” conferences and pays expenses for elected officials to attend. For example, the budget shows that Heartland allocated $304,704 for scientists supporting its contrarian views in 2012.
One of these scientists...
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