Hard hitting global and local news
The National Weather Service expects Tidal departures: between 2 to 3 ft above astronomical Tides tonight during high tide with locally higher values, 3 to 4.5 ft above astronomical Tides Monday morning, and potential for 6 to 11 ft above Monday night into Tuesday morning . The higher end of the range relegated to the New York Harbor, western Long Island Sound and the Long Island South Shore back bays .
Does Mitt Romney really "Know Better" than the silly things he has said on the campaign trail lately? I ask the question because that subject came up twice recently, once in Time Magazine , and once in the Financial Times .
Louis Hooffstetter said…
Denialists denied by judge in New Zealand lawsuit Via John Mashey, there’s a blog post by Gareth on yet another attempt by climate denialists to muddy the record on climate change, this time by suing New Zealand’s National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research for publishing a temperature record that shows New Zealand warming up over the last century.
Yes, of course. That wasn’t a left/right thing.For what it’s worth:1) NUCLEAR: (science) some people think there is zero danger from radiation (including a particular board member of Sandia) while others cringe from the very word radiation, without knowing much about different forms, background levels, radon in homes, polonium in cigarettes, x-rays, etc
By 2015 Hard Commodity Prices Will Collapse; Australia’s Mining Boom Dies (and the Official Denials Start) I have been calling for a base metals bust for some time, fueled by a slowdown in China. Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets has been saying the same thing. Indeed, it is analysis from Pettis that influenced my views in the first place
Posted by EliRabett at 5:36 PM Â 3 comments: Anonymous said… It’s interesting how Australian ecology differs from the ecologies of other continents, in terms of the nature of its trophic webs. The geological isolation of Australia, together with its ancient, nutrient-poor soils, mean that there is a great skew toward the lower trophic levels: that is, there ain’t much room for a large biomass of top predators on the continent