Quick hits again tonight:
- Maybe they'll make it to the PM's house. The drought in Australia has driven snakes, some poisonous, into suburban gardens, yet one more thing that doesn't seem to get built into the models that ends up worse, not better, than we would predict.
- Stateline has a really nice summary article on "homegrown energy" efforts in the states and the grades that the states are getting. Get up-to-date.
- Brazil's not the only place with a rain forest. Canada has one, too, and they're getting serious about protecting it.
- More proof global warming doesn't exist. Why, it's snowing in AZ!! Why, that might only happen if the climate were changing. Why, that . . . sorry.
- Paleoclimatologists are getting more and more data out of the extreme northeastern Canadian arctic. And it's not good.
- Newsweek has a long and generally good article on the nuclear "renaissance" in light of growing acceptance of the carbon-based fuel problem thing. Covers the history well, covers the buyoffs of Bushnev and the other Repubs who are greasing the skids well, covers the continuing problems with its use that, despite all the familiar claims to the contrary, are still there. We may be forced into it at some point, due to cupidity and stupidity, but right now there are still better options once the subsidies and insurance protection are removed.
- A Tale of Two Wind States. DE is embracing a wind power future while KS, you know, is KS.
- Some days, it's just one dam story after another. Did you know that over half the nation's dams are privately owned, with owners who mostly don't give a dam? (Okay, I'm done.) The dams are getting old, not being maintained, and pose a substantial threat to tons of people in their paths, not to mention the need to manage water effectively in the future (h/t Grist). Surely we need to start . . . wait, what's that? Is Britney wearing panties??? (Actually, NY does seem to waking up to the need to regulate. Surely that will lead to no good.)
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