Since they are in the business of selling gasoline-powered automobiles, the manufacturers understandably are reluctant to come out and publicly announce the obvious solution to air-poisoning by the gasoline engine: Get rid of the gasoline engine.
On the other hand, every member of the industry is actively engaged in trying to do just that.
–W.E. Butterworth, Wheels [...]
I finally got around to reading Thomas L. Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Friedman is one of the few columnists that I read on a regular basis and the book is on an interesting subject, so I was expecting to enjoy reading it. I didn’t. While I don’t agree with all his ideas, the main [...]
I’ve enjoyed James Balog’s photography for several years. I’ve been looking forward to seeing the results of his Extreme Ice Survey, were he installed cameras on several glaciers around the world. Since the last time I checked, EIS has posted several high-quality time-lapse movies of glaciers! Go to the EIS site to see more.
GL-05 [...]
I read this several months ago, but didn’t finish the review until now. This is a hard review to write because Freeman has so many good quotes. I saved 3400 words of quotes from this book.
Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How by S. David Freeman is an excellent book by an expert. [...]
One important issue not receiving enough attention is efficiency increases forced by population growth. The Earth is a finite system: resources do not grow as population does. This means that to maintain the same results (standard of living, &c.) as population grows, efficiency must increase. This is important for issues such as land use, food [...]
I finally got around to watching Who Killed the Electric Car?. It is a very good documentary. I have been reading about electric vehicles the past few months, and the movie inspired me to start looking again.
Todays RealClimate post about Venus and Venus Express is very interesting.
This is a brief review of Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg.
In chapter one, Lomborg lists four points:
“Global warming is real and man-made.” Very few people argue this point anymore.
“Statements about the strong, ominous, and immediate consequences of global warming are often wildly exaggerated . . .” This is very dependent on one’s source of information. [...]
I found an interesting NOAA NCDC page about snow: Will we have a white Christmas? There is also a basic map:
This map defines ‘white’ as one inch of snow. The pdf includes better information. I don’t count a white Christmas unless I can ski.