Muck and MysteryLoitering With IntentFuelish Fantasies- June 12, 2008 Let's review the illogic of carbon schemes: - Prices will be raised enough to alter behavior and, hopefully, provide incentive for innovation. - Society will just have to grin and bear it. - The costs aren't costs since . . . well, that doesn't make any sense but just go with it. It doesn't seem like this has a ghost of a chance. Concerns were growing last night over a summer of coordinated European fuel protests after tens of thousands of Spanish truckers blocked roads and the French...http://www.garyjones.org/mt/archives/000802.html Mind Prostheses- June 12, 2008 Take my tools away and I'm diminished, less than I would be had I never had the tools. The benefit seems worth the cost though. What if we were getting dumber when we are off Google, but we were getting loads smarter while we were on Google That doesn't seem improbable, and in fact seems pretty likely. Question is, do you get off Google or stay on all the time I think that even if the penalty is that you loose 20 points of your natural IQ when you get off Google AI, most of us will choose..http://www.garyjones.org/mt/archives/000801.html Breathe Deeply- June 12, 2008 Will wonders never cease Marine bacteria have the capacity to take up and capture carbon dioxide with the help of sunlight, say researchers at Kalmar University in Sweden in collaboration with colleagues in Spain, Australia, and Russia. This can be compared to a simple form of photosynthesis, where marine bacteria use energy from sunlight to absorb carbon dioxide. It was previously known that bacteria in oxygen-starved lakes can have this capacity, but it's new knowledge that bacteria in the.http://www.garyjones.org/mt/archives/000800.html Harm's Way- June 11, 2008 In an earlier post I objected to the idea that James Hansen could in any way be considered an authority on "where humanity should aim with its GHG reduction efforts" since he had no relevant expertise and has repeatedly demonstrated a propensity for playing loose with truth to advance his agenda. He's a slimebag in other words. He's not the only one. As my colleague Andy Revkin reported, the influential NASA climate scientist James Hansen is now pushing for a new approach to cutting...http://www.garyjones.org/mt/archives/000799.html |