I'm on my laptop tonight watching it download SW:TOR so that my wife and I can play the game with our holiday guest tonight and tomorrow.* What that means is that I'm away from my usual resources, including the HTTP-composing program that I use for my blogging and a computer with my Google login so that I can post to Blogspot blogs. Just the same, ( Read more... )

Today, February 11th, I saw the earliest Turkey Vulture I've ever seen here in Michigan. It was flying over I-696 near Coolidge. Traditionally, they don't show up in the state until the first day of spring, although they've been arriving the first week of March for most of the past decade. However, I can't recall seeing any appearing before ( Read more... )

University of California, Davis via physorg.com: Study shows plants moved downhill, not up, in warming world
January 20, 2011

In a paper published today in the journal Science, a University of California, Davis, researcher and his co-authors challenge a widely held assumption that plants will move uphill in response to warmer temperatures ( Read more... )

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The Tyee (Canada): Idea #1: The Green Hawks Are Coming
Who's super serious about renewable energy and repelling climate change? The US military, of all people.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, 20 Dec 2010, TheTyee.ca

One of these days, Ottawa's oil patch salesmen might want to sit down with the U.S. military and have a real "man-up" talk.

By any standard, the ( Read more... )

Poll Which article should I repost to ONTD_Political?
Instead of posting a rant, I'll just post the news stories I selected for the policy section of the most recent Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday on Daily Kos.

( Click here for a list of stories reminding me why I am glad that I quit being a Republican 10 years ago. )

San Jose Mercury News: Volunteers join global 10-10-10 activists to combat global warming
By Sharon Noguchi

At San Jose State, students framed solar panels for an experimental zero-emissions house. In Milpitas, advocates talked up "personal rapid transit" that promises to provide efficient, 24-hour-a-day transportation networks. And in East Palo ( Read more... )

I never did get around to posting the environmental articles from last week's Overnight News Digest on Daily Kos. Among other reasons, that's because the lead green story was about the Woodward Dream Cruise, which really deserves an entry of its own. As you can see, I haven't gotten around to writing it ( Read more... )

And now for something green and political. Hat/tip to wader on Daily Kos.

Crossposted to powerswitch and ontd_political.

Grist: What climate activists need to learn from the NRA and the gun-control wars
by Robert Walker
17 Aug 2010 6:43 AM

Supporters of climate-change legislation have much to learn from an organization that is often rated as the most powerful lobby in ( Read more... )

Crossposted to ontd_science  here.

Examiner.com: U of M scientists find climate change, mountain building led to mammal diversity patterns
by Vince Lamb, Detroit Science News Examiner

Travel from the Equator to the one of the poles and one finds that the climate becomes colder and harsher. During that same journey from the tropics to the Arctic (or Antarctic, ( Read more... )