“All of these things wouldn’t have happened a couple of years ago because there wasn’t enough room on the sidewalks”
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How Much Does Keystone Really Cost?
In its report on the Keystone XL pipeline, EPA identified “significant environmental impacts” and noted that full assessment of these impacts was not possible due to insufficient information. The monetary value of the damage is arguably as much as $100 billion per year.… [more]
Hansen Interview
Yes, you’ve heard it all before, but if you know someone who hasn’t yet, this would be a good place for them to start.
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The Hard Way
Business guru Malcolm Gladwell argues that practice is more important than talent.
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Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors
Taylor Wilson, is known as the boy who played with fusion, because at the age of 14 became the 32nd individual on the planet to achieve a nuclear-fusion reaction.
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Ecuador opening its rainforest to oil drilling despite bitter past experience
Perhaps they are hoping that this time, China will do better at respecting indigenous people’s rights, health, and the integrity of the jungle environment than Texaco was able to do?… [more]
Climate Scientist Andrew Weaver wins the first ever Green party seat in BC election
The British Columbia Green Party just made history, voters in the riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head elected Andrew Weaver, Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, and a lead author for a chapter of the IPCC AR4, to the Legislative Assembly.
Andrew Weaver is the first Green party member ever to be elected to the legislative Assembly; his election continues the trend started by Elizabeth May, who was the first ever federal Green party member to be elected to the Canadian Parliament in the 2011 election.
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Ambient Carbon Capture
It’s time to start thinking about how to subtract carbon from the atmosphere.
See also this recent article on Slate.
UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan has a roundup of the topic.
And Chris Tackett at Treehugger has an interesting take on it.
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It’s Existential
Just another climate rant. “It’s like watching space Nazis launch asteroids at us and the mainstream media talks exasperatedly about ‘those space Nazi people’ who are so quaintly concerned that we are all going to be vaporized in a giant fiery cataclysm while our top political leaders argue about who is more pro-asteroid.”
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Bill Gates: GDP Can Be an Inadequate Metric of Growth
Bill Gates says “it is very difficult to compare the value of baskets of goods across different time periods”. One surprising conclusion, “that GDP understates growth”, notwithstanding, he also points to a book by SFU prof Morton Jerven, “Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It” and concludes that we should not focus on GDP in estimating “growth”. … [more]