Detroit Goes for Electric Cars, but Will Drivers?. Ford and other carmakers are betting billions on electric cars despite questions about consumer demand for them. [NYT > Business]
Category Archives Environment
Peter McMahon, writing in the On line Opinion presents an intriguing position that... The radical impact of new information technologies and the rise of the global crises (global warming, peak oil and the like) are forcing a new kind of politics into being. He suggests [as many of us would agree] that twenty-first century society will be defined by the…
A Nobel laureate gives credence to a malodorous solution to global warming: shooting sulfur into the Earth's atmosphere. By Elizabeth Svoboda. Link: This Global Warming Fix Stinks. [Source: Wired News: Top Stories]
MIT and Energy for a rapidly evolving world. “The numbers are overwhelming,” Henry Jacoby tells us in his overview of the final forum panel. The U.S. consumes one-quarter of the world’s energy and emits one-quarter of the world’s carbon dioxide. The combined population of India and China is nine times that of the U.S., so what will happen as they approach our…
ABC news reports: Japan has failed in its bid to resume commercial whaling during a vote at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Uslan, South Korea. Japan loses whaling bid
Might as well panic If you don't know what to do, and you're frightened, might as well panic.That seems to be the first rule of being a member of the human race. Apparently, panicking is an acceptable substitute for forethought, contingency planning or actually taking productive action. We almost want to blame the thing we're anxious about on the person…
Odds Of Tipping: Better Than Even Chance Of Major Changes In Global Climate System, Experts Predict. According to the estimates of climate scientists in a newly published expert survey, there is more than a 50% chance of major changes in the global climate system if global warming proceeds at the current rate. Should average global temperature increase by more than…
Global warming leaving its mark on polar bears.. Potentially fatal to the polar bear, global warming has already left its mark on the species with smaller, less robust bears that are increasingly showing cannibalistic tendencies. As the sea ice shrinks, so are the polar bears -- they're not growing as big as they used to. [Environmental Health News]