Mind of Dan: Webcam art

A beautiful picture from the North Pole webcams (H/t the Arctic Sea Ice Blog) Related posts (randomly generated) Ice-free North Pole? What really happened to the sea ice this summer We can’t let the Russians get away with this Polar bears added to endangered list Arctic sea ice melting fast,

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Mind of Dan: A terrifying graph

In North America coal use might be down thanks to the abundance of cheap natural gas but the global perspective looks very different: According to the latest BP Statistical Review of World Energy, coal consumption grew 5.4 percent in 2011 and coal production grew by 6.1 percent, giving the resource

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Mind of Dan: Green from the Grassroots

Elinor Ostrom, Nobel-prize-winning economist of common pool resources, died of cancer this week, aged 78. Her final published article was green from the grassroots here are some excerpts: Decades of research demonstrate that a variety of overlapping policies at city, subnational, national, and international levels is more likely to succeed

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Mind of Dan: Japan Restarts Nuclear Reactors

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the restart of two idle nuclear reactors Saturday amid widespread public opposition, more than a year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Power Plant, and halted all 50 reactors in Japan… Saturday’s decision comes as the government scrambles

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Mind of Dan: Yes and no

A simple graphic illustrating what we need to do to actually reduce our emissions: With no meaningful climate policy commitment – no binding emission limits, no carbon pricing, not even a clean energy standard – the awesome work of building a clean energy economy is proceeding in parallel to the

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Mind of Dan: Fakegate exhonerations

Looks like an independent investigation done at the behest of the Pacific Institute has confirmed that Peter Gleick did not write the disputed fakegate memo And an independent digital forensic investigation done at the behest of Heartland institute found that the disputed memo was not created on Heartland’s computer system

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Mind of Dan: Have a few minutes?

Have a few minutes? Then take a survey. It is part of a study being conducted at the University of Western Australia. Related posts (randomly generated) Mentally ill more likely to vote for Bush NASA Phoenix Lander has successfully landed on Mars! Africa’s big game ‘could roam US plains’ How

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Mind of Dan: What’s Harper Afraid of?

By Franke James and in keeping with our recent focus on Canadian science issues. Related posts (randomly generated) Canadian music creators have a spine Stephen Harper, why do you mock me? The RCMP’s common sense in tackling copyright violations Carol James and the BC NDP redeem themselves Biofuels behind high

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Mind of Dan: Black Out, Speak Out

This is what the Planet3.0 home page looked like on June 4th 2012 Why was Planet3.0 blacked out yesterday? In short because here in Canada we are facing somewhat of a crisis. While south of the 49th parallel in the US, politicians talk about a wide scale gutting of environmental

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Mind of Dan: Quote of the day

When anyone says _______ (insert favorite policy, technology here) is “the” solution to a big, complex problem, they are invariably wrong. Via Jonathan Foley on Twitter Related posts (randomly generated) Laying dormant Quote of the day Delinquent blogger How the right should respond to envrironmetal problems Patpong Ping Pong

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