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Offshore Oil Drilling

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Environment, Politics | No Comments »

This has got to be the dumbest idea put forward today. Not that I’m against McCain as, some basic policy disagreements not withstanding, I think he would make as good a President as Obama. That being said – opening up Alaska’s wilderness and Drilling off the Gulf Coast states is just asinine. As a species we [...]

Oceanic Dead Zones

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Carbon, Environment | No Comments »

Oceanic dead zonesare vast areas of water ways that have become essentially dead due to oxygen deprivation.  The process goes something like this: At the exit of river basins fertilizer run off which is heavily laces with nitrates increase phytoplankton production. While such phytoplankton are normally a good thing, being a source of food for [...]

An Inconvenient Truth

Monday, June 9th, 2008
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One has to hand it to Gore – at least the fellow is raising awareness about environmental impacts of human activities (old news). If you haven’t seen the rebuttal film “The Great Global Warming Swindle” then I would highly recommend you watch this documentary. If you get a chance to watch this, keep in mind [...]