Thanks to Bill Reynolds for this link!
Quite a few influential religious groups have banded together to urge the US Senate to act on halting global warming (among other things). Just goes to show that people of faith do not belong in the pocket of any one party.
Thanks to Dr. Ross McCluney for this article!
Much has been made of separate oceanic ecosystems suffering decline due to human activities, but never before has the totality of oceanic ecosystem change been made available in a single detailed map. Thanks to a team of scientists from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, that has changed. The map they have produced does not paint a pretty picture.
Thanks to Dr. Ross McCluney for submitting this article!
In an environmentally-conscious future, economic theories and practices will need to be adapted and changed to account for new attitudes towards our global ecosystem. This article says it all, and says it all quite well.
Thanks to Tami Freedman for this information!
Students at the Mater Dei High School have hand-crafted a prototype auto capable of achieving a fuel economy of 2,843 miles per gallon. No word on how large, fast, or safe the car might be for actual transit applications, but chances are that it's little more than a tech demo for the Shell Eco-Marathon Americas contest. Still, it's an impressive feat for some highschool students.
Thanks to Dr. Ross McCluney for this information!
Shipping food around in strange patterns that defy common sense is not only strange but dangerous for the environment. The EU may take steps soon to curtail such nonsensical shipping patterns, but that's just the EU. Fuel prices should put the brakes on strange shipping routes elsewhere.
A study going back to 2000 has linked the widespread use of catalytic converters to the widespread contamination of the troposphere over North America with Platinum Group Metals (PGMs). These include Platinum, Palladium, and Rhodium. While it is not immediately obvious what this contamination means for animals and humans living here, it certainly seems like a terrible waste of rare and expensive metals.
The Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica is apparently breaking up at an alarming rate. Score another one for global warming, or something or other. Are any of us really surprised?
