In which Simon Donner expands on the way ethanol production kills the ocean: The new US Energy Policy calls for 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels by the year 2022. Of that, 15 billion can be produced from corn starch. Our study found meeting those would cause a 10-34% increase in nitrogen loading to the …
In three months, I made $6.68 from Google AdSense ads. Not enough to compensate for the way it made Inkstain look butt-ugly. It’s gone.
There’s a pair of well-used, dusty old hiking boots and two tattered bouquets where the Paseo del Nordest Bike Trail crosses Commanche Rd. midway between home and my work. I didn’t know Roy Sekreta, who died there Monday night. But I stopped and cried after I rode past the little shrine today. There’s something so …
reading:The Nature of Economies, by Jane Jacobs listening: Bongo Fury word of the day: fuggy – stuff or smelly paper of the day: lead in the North Pacific – Ice cores from the Yukon record rising lead levels resulting from the industrialization of Asia
The global cooling mole.
This Rutishauser and colleagues have been tracking the blooming of flowers in Switzerland (can you think of a more delightful job as a scientist?). In a paper just published in GRL, they concluded that 2007 was a remarkable spring: Anomalously high temperatures led to a very early onset of plant phenological spring phases, including 98 …
Me: “Did you have snow at your house this morning?” Unnamed friend: “Yeah, but we could have ridden.” Note: I wasn’t asking about a bike ride. I just wanted to know if it was pretty.
A good year for the minnows
Andrew Revkin writes this morning about a paper in Nature Geoscience showing an expansion of barren desert-like regions of ocean.
My homeys at New Mexicans for Science and Reason have a great radio show on Saturday afternoons (2 p.m., 1350 a.m. in Albuquerque). But the only place I have an am radio is in the car, and I’m almost never in my car at the right time. Now, thanks to the magic of PodGoobers, you …