environment

Halloween 2011: Coastline Retreat Is Scary, Kids!

October 29, 2011

It started with me walking across the family room in a nude bathing suit and D looking up from his laptop with a “What the …” “I’ll be right back,” I said, putting on flip flops before walking into the frigid-by-Texas-drought-standards garage. “There’s some makeup in the car that I need.” And D got that [...]

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Get Your Energy Soundbites In Order, Folks

October 25, 2011

Before you read on, consider this: Much like with patients and doctors in the case of the healthcare debate, neither folks who have to live in the filth nor those who actually work in the energy industry get a say in the policymaking. In other words, this conversation is held at all the wrong levels. [...]

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“Even More Hilarious Than The Day After Tomorrow”

June 13, 2011

On the road this week. I leave you with the latest from a geo-blog which must go in my feedreader once I get back. It seems that Hollywood is putting out another sciencepocalypse (or is that scienceageddon?) film, this one entitled 2012: Ice Age. There’s a volcano. It unleashes a glacier. Don’t ask me how. [...]

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Dumb As A Box Of Rocks

December 3, 2010

“A is for Arsenic someone thought fun To include on the icing on top of a bun.” – “ABC” by The Tiger Lilies & Kronos Quartet When an undergraduate and folks asked me why I went into geology, I’d reply, “Because you can talk to rocks and they don’t talk back.” Unlike with humans, entities [...]

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Science Friday

October 15, 2010

It’s still Earth Science Week, folks! In my attempts to raise $money$ for science classrooms, I completely neglected to inform you that the public radio show Science Friday may go off the air for lack of funding. We at SciFri are facing severe financial difficulties, i.e. raising money. NSF [National Science Foundation] has turned us [...]

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Day 150 Unvanished, Unfinished

September 16, 2010

Untoward. But not unfathomable. We, in these here parts, are accustomed to years-long aftermaths and revelations, after all. WDSU.com | Government Accused Of Bungling Spill Evidence: Companies Say Failed Blowout Preventer Not Adequately Preserved al.com | Oil spill claims czar: “I over-promised and under-delivered” Meanwhile, back in the real world where people live and die [...]

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The Philosophy Of Environing

August 6, 2010

Ed Darrell points out at Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub an interesting 2008 exchange between Speaking of Faith’s Krista Tippett and Cal DeWitt, professor at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies of the University of Wisconsin at Madison on the history of environmentalism. According to DeWitt, it would seem that human beings stopped viewing themselves as part [...]

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Day 106 The Oil Hasn’t Vanished

August 3, 2010

The oil has not vanished. I repeat: The oil has not vanished. The Gulf of Mexico’s summertime dead zone is twice as big as last year’s. Think about it: How can 206 million gallons of crude vanish in 19 days? 205.8 million gallons of oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico = 2.37 million gallons [...]

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Groundhog (Choking On Oil) Day

July 29, 2010

Oil-related catastrophes simply refuse to leave me alone. I mean, WHAT. 840,000 gallons of oil from a corroded Enbridge Energy pipeline have leaked into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River near Battle Creek this past week. More specifically, “The oil is moving from Talmadge Creek into the Kalamazoo River, which flows from near the city of Battle Creek into [...]

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Day 101

July 29, 2010

LiveScience | What Will Happen During the Next 100 Days of the Oil Spill? … scientists say it could take decades to comprehend the toll the last 100 days took on wildlife — from sea turtles to bacteria. Currently, oil covers approximately 638 miles (1,026 kilometers) of Gulf shoreline, according to the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint [...]

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