Another Example of What Happens When We’ve Solved the Problem of Feeding, Clothing and Housing Ourselves
Make up your own story to go with this, or check out Dave’s.
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
Food Prices Flatten
Global food prices have leveled off, according to the Economist food price index out today. It’s settled at 251.5, down 0.6 percent from a week ago and up 61.3 percent from a year ago. I don’t understand it well enough to know for sure, but I’ve got to assume that 0.6 percent over a week …
Good Scientific Communication
Writing on drought, I have had many occasions to draw on the research done by Richard Seager’s North American Drought research group at Lamont-Doherty. While their work often merits a news release from Columbia’s press office (as with the Dust Bowl paper I’m currently writing about), Richard and the other members of his group also …
Navajo water settlement advances
stuff I wrote elsewhere
Awareness of the Price of Gas
From Tuesday’s New York Times: “It clearly evokes a visceral response because we’re the only industry that has our prices in two-foot-high letters on the street corner,” said John Felmy, chief economist at the American Petroleum Institute. “We’ve seen other things go up in prices, like milk, but if you ask 10 people on the …
Global Warming! DDT! Penguins!
In a sort of grand convergence of anti-environmental flypaper, a souffle of red meat, New Scientist just sent out this news flash: Penguins exposed to DDT from melting glaciers Decades after most countries stopped using the insecticide DDT, frozen stores of the chemical are now dripping out of melting Antarctic glaciers – and into penguins. …
Wising Up
Tim Haab’s graph of the day really needs no comment. (But this is the Internet, so I know that won’t stop you.)
Water Fact of the Day
According to Fred Pearce, ((When the Rivers Run Dry)) 130 gallons of water are required to grow a pound of wheat.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
My latest idea to save the world.
Energy and Economics
Al Zelicoff and Troy Simpson have their latest video up in a series the Albuquerque Journal is doing on stuff you can do to save energy and money. My favorite bit is the fact that Al fills up so rarely that he forgets which side of the car the gas tank is on. update: I …