Image of the Day: Green Onion Takes on New Meaning
Gills Onions is a food processing company in California that already sets an energy example by using its own waste to generate electricity. But recently, after repeatedly needing to purchase additional electricty at the most expensive time of day, the company became even greener by adding a gigantic battery. According to The New York Times, the … Read More
Image of the Day: March of the Fire Ants
They rode into Mobile, Alabama aboard a cargo ship from South America in 1929, and since then fire ants have spread to become a painful reality in much of the Southeast. By some estimates 20 million people suffer from their agonizing bites each year. Fire ants love hot weather and moderate rainfall, and in order to flourish they also need warm … Read More
Stunning Waterspout Images from Louisiana
Severe weather affected Louisiana on Wednesday, with a damaging tornado in Grand Isle, and simultaneous occurrences of multiple waterspouts over the nearshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The waterspouts — essentially just tornadoes over the water — were caught on camera by a National Weather Service employee and many others.… Read More
Tree-Hugging, Organic-Buying Spoof Hits Sunny Spot
We're suckers for humor. And Heaven knows, there's very little about climate change that is funny. But if you're trying to make a case for people to take advantage of solar power, a little humor might just go a long way. That's what a company called SunRun is hoping for in unveiling a hilarious new ad campaign. The message behind it is that solar … Read More
Google Fellows Seek to Fine Tune Climate Communication
The first video from each of them is simple, consisting of a webcam talk. The other two videos consist of a more conversational style video, with "B-roll" images of clouds rotating through, and a whiteboard talk in which the scientist spells out why his study is important. I found the whiteboard talk most engaging, which surprised me, since such ta… Read More
Heartland Institute Jumps the Shark
Tough stuff, but you’ve got to love the reasoning, which Heartland explains on its website. “…what these murderers and madmen have said differs very little from what spokespersons for the United Nations, journalists for the “mainstream” media, and liberal politicians say about global warming.”… Read More
Why Groundwater is Another Sea Level Rise Concern
Since the 1960s, sea level has risen by about 0.38 feet, at a rate of about .008 feet per year, at Bridgeport, CT, about 20 miles southwest of New Haven. Because the land in this area is slowly sinking at the same time the sea is rising, the amount of local sea level rise is expected to be greater here than in some other parts of the country.… Read More
Buy an Electric Car, Keep Your Food from Spoiling
Fans of electric automobiles love the fact that they’re quiet, zippy and take far less maintenance than gasoline-powered cars (no oil changes, no ignition system, no radiator fluid…). In principle, electrics are also more climate-friendly — although until coal-fired power plants start capturing and storing CO2 to keep it out of the air, the climate… Read More
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