02007-08-22 | Environment, Nature, World
Arctic Ice at All-Time Low
Just last year the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s Serreze said that the Arctic was “right on schedule” to be completely free of ice by 2070 at the soonest. He now thinks that day may arrive by 2030.
Another article and more links can befound here. Seems to me that, unless you are planning on leaving this planet soon, this is not the time to discuss whether Global Warming is largely man-made or a natural occurrence. That would be like discussing how a fire started instead of trying to put it out or cutting off your finger and discussing why that happened rather than grabbing the finger and running to the hospital. There are things we can do and we better start this summer.
But my hunch is that people will let things slide until…. well, until people see their own investments in danger – see the illustration from Vanity Fair – real estate and industry in major cities on the coast, beach-front property in Florida and elsewhere…
02007-06-02 | Environment, Nature, World
Japan threatens to go it alone on whaling – earth – 01 June 2007 – New Scientist Environment
Japan threatened to quit the International Whaling Commission on Thursday after fierce opposition from anti-whaling nations forced it to scrap a proposal to allow four coastal villages to hunt minke whales.
Go it alone on what planet? There is no going it alone anymore. This is one tiny planet and everything is connected. When will governments – the USA on Global Warming and Japan on whaling – get this? The sooner the better for all of us.
02007-05-28 | Nature
Pruned: Defiant Gardens
And this link to NPR story.
Very touching.
02007-05-19 | Nature, Writing
Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog
3.0 Paper wasp: Caustic & burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of Hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.
Man lets himself get stung by a large variety of insects and rates the pain… quite poetic, like little haikus about pain, life, love?
02007-05-18 | Environment, Food, Nature, Photos
I bought a set of these chopsticks after seeing a fellow traveler in Tibet use them. From above photo I find out they are even cooler – the wood is from recycled baseball bats. Why not bring your own chopsticks to a restaurant instead of using virgin bamboo or wood sticks? China is introducing a tax on chopsticks, because they are losing their forests… But luckily there is a new movement and more and more people bring their own.
02007-05-14 | Nature, News, Travel
Penguin Gets Wanderlust, Travels 3,000 Miles (TreeHugger)
Magellanic by name, magellanic by game. One penguin took its famous namesake to heart, waddling 5000km—that’s 3,100 miles for you non-metric types—from its native Magellan islands in southern Chile to Peru’s Paracas national reserve. To put this in perspective, that’s like toddling cross-country from New York to California, which can’t be a trifling feat for a small flightless fowl.
