Excerpts from George M. Woodwell’s “The Energy Cycle of the Biosphere,” Scientific American, September 1970. ****************************************************************************** “It is solar energy that moves the rabbit, the deer, the whale, the boy on the bicycle outside my window, my pencil as I write these words.” “Only about a tenth of 1 percent… Continue reading
Those of you who still try to contend with debunkers will have noticed that they say that weather is hard to predict beyond the next few days, so we sure can’t trust predictions for the next few decades or centuries. The two letters, below, published by Nature in 2007, will… Continue reading
——– Original Message ——– Subject: Salon: “Poison ice” and global warming Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:17:57 -0700 From: Fred Heutte <phred@SUNLIGHTDATA.COM> Reply-To: Fred Heutte <phred@SUNLIGHTDATA.COM> To: OREGON-LEADERS@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG My friend Elizabeth Grossman, a very talented and wide-ranging writer (her books include “High Tech Trash,” about e-waste; “The Undamming of America”… Continue reading
EXCHANGE MORNING POST : Business, Economics, Education, Entrepreneurs, Environment, Science and Technology April 29, 2008 http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2008/week18/Tuesday/042809.html Asia’s Rainforests Vanishing As Timber, Food Demand Surge: Experts. “Asia’s rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and record food, energy and commodity prices,… Continue reading