Teach the controversy
Some how I don’t think this is what they had in mind: A disagreement between the twin giants of genetic theory, Richard Dawkins and EO Wilson, is now being fought…
Dan Moutal
Rio+20: 20 years of standing still
Rio+20 has come and gone. It ended in the traditional fashion for UN environmental summits with the nations of the world agreeing that, at least in principle, it would be…
Beyond absurdity
This is more absurd than the usual drivel from ClimateDepot: We need to redefine sustainable development as oil, gas, coal Related posts (randomly generated) China going green? The carbon capture…
This is an exciting time
From the always amazing XKCD: Click to embiggen Related posts (randomly generated) Jobs, not tree Bah Humbug! Another one of my problems This is my problem… The solution to our…
Does anyone have a slinky and a slow-motion camera?
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Rio+20
Is anyone here interested/hopeful in RIO+20? Personally after watching year after year of UNFCCC meetings agree to do something about GHG emissions… at some unspecified point in the future, I…
The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones
Roger Harrabin asks: Is ‘peak oil’ idea dead? So here’s another worry – not that we have too little oil and gas, for the time being at least. But that…
Canada outlaws the environment
Yes, that is an absolute hyperbole. Did it get your attention? Yesterday the Canadian House of Commons passed the disastrous bill c-38 that rolls back much of Canada’s environmental protection…
Third pipeline leak in Alberta in three weeks
I don’t see what the problem is. These were ethical oil spills, weren’t they? Related posts (randomly generated) About those radical foreign interests opposed to the latest tar-sand pipeline
Resilience vs Yield: A Difficult Choice
Farming on the outskirts of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.One of the most densely populated agricultural areas on the planet The challenge of feeding the estimated 10 billion people by…
Yet another study confirms global warming is human-caused
For the record no one here at Planet3.0 is surprised: Researchers averaged the results from a number of climate models, and compared that to global temperature records for the upper…
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…
Climate change is simple: We do something or we’re screwed
For more info check out David Roberts’ blog Related posts (randomly generated) Help defeat online censorship Another example of the US leading the fight against climate change Bush continues to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Rotating the Question
Steve Easterbrook shows the power of simply tilting your head: By putting the dates on the Y-axis and temperatures on the X-axis, and cutting off the graph at 2°C, we…
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…
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…