Hard hitting global and local news
Hard hitting global and local news
Caution Thomas Midgley Jr. is well known for having "more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history". Midgley’s team was responsible for CFC refrigerants, and the introduction of tetraethyl lead as an antiknock agent in gasoline. The CFCs have had both good and bad effects, the identification of the bad ones, ozone depletion, and the calculus is irrelevant at this point with the Montreal Protocols and the availability of adequate substitutes. Tetraethyl lead is another story and a report in Mother Jones today provides a useful platform from which to view the introduction of GMO technology. The Weasel has posed seven questions, but even he admits that there are two core ones 4: Can we really be sure that GM crops are safe — for our fellow creatures in the environment at large; or for consumers – whether livestock or people
Sandy Whether Sandy was caused by, made worse by, had nothing to do with climate change is one of those questions that can sell a lot of beer and be the subject of seminars, posters and blogs without end. Eli is actually not going to take a position on that, or rather reserves the right to be all over the place on the issue. However, it is one of the choices in the Bunny Poll and a few words are in order, so let the first few come from Greg Laden , the keeper of the list who put it at Number 1: Note that the first few of the links below are to blog posts written by concerned climate scientists, whom the climate change denialists call “alarmists.†You will note that these scientists and writers were saying alarming things as the storm approached. You will also note that what actually happened when Sandy struck was much worse than any of these “alarmists†predicted in one way or another, in some cases, in several ways.
Excerpt from: Vote for the top climate story of 2012
Rerunning the frog and the scorpion , Tony Watts rolls out the AR5 draft and Andy Revkin is shocked as are some of the usual players. Why Eli asks, given the way in which the draft was made available to anyone who asked, would anyone be surprised that one of the scorpions would take a shot?
How to Uproot Walmart & Bring Jobs Back Home. December 11, 2012 ( LocalOrg ) – In many towns across America, Walmart, or a similar mega-retailer, is the only option you have when you need (almost) anything. Big-retail is a monopoly in its truest form and it has become so, not through “free market” economics, technological innovation, supply and demand, or healthy competition, but rather through a combination of pro-monopoly rules and regulations, human exploitation, outsourcing labor overseas, while preventing labor domestically from unionizing for better wages, job security, and benefits. The sub-par trinkets, poisoned food and beverages, and slave-made goods that line the corporate consumer troughs at Walmart are the result of a global network taking advantage of socioeconomic disparity, consumer ignorance, and deplorable labor conditions to bring the very lowest prices possible to consumers. The consumers pushing their carts through the aisles of Walmart scarcely realize the conditions within which workers overseas toil to line those aisles.
Signifiers Going to the AGU Fall Meeting clarified many issues for Eli First, there is a clear and strong consensus supporting the main pillars of the IPCC AR4, and the USGCRP. Â Climate change is occurring, driven by human influences and dangerous. Â Action to stop carbon emissions is needed immediately.
See more here: Bloomberg Business Week Discovers Global Warming!
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