Saturday, July 12, 2008

Great Post: This is Not a Drill

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My mentor and colleague, Glen Hiemstra, is becoming something of an energy futurist lately. I really like his most recent post at www.futur...
Sunday, July 06, 2008

Altruism Isn't Enough

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I like to think altruism works for the human race. Or even self-interest across a time span like a human lifetime. But then I think about ...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Junuary

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Washington State has been cold. The first week of June was the coldest on record, and a recent Seattle Times headline read "Colder tha...
Sunday, June 01, 2008

A Conversation at Starbucks

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In a line at Starbucks yesterday: "It cost me $50.00 to fill up my tank." Grunt. "Cost me $75. Did you see that show about ...
Saturday, May 24, 2008

Opportunity Knocks: Can anyone build a better plane?

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I booked flights the other day. Ouch. Since I travel by air four or five times a year, I watch the industry a little. Its struggling. It...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Acid Red Flags

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Eight years ago, I heard oceanographer Sylvia Earle keynote an international GIS conference. Her talk deepened my understanding of the impo...
Monday, May 19, 2008

If a legendary Texas oilman says it....

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The end quote of an interview that CNN published today with T. Boone Pickens is, "But we are going to have to do something different in...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

It's all short-term thinking

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The part of climate change / rising carbon levels that we created before about a decade ago is excusable, maybe. But since then? After we ...
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Snow, and Cooling Public Budgets

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I started this blog partly to record my observations and thoughts about climate change. There are other places better at the science. Today...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Life Imitating Art Imitating Life....

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I was at a science fiction convention this weekend, and at one point there was a discussion between me and someone else about science fictio...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

Is it just me, or is it getting worse out there?

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This week's news stories highlight that the real data is worse than we thought. China's greenhouse gas emissions grew faster than p...
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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Book Review: Vanishing World, the Endangered Arctic by Mireille De La Lez and Fredrik Granath

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I'm going to a more formal review of this book along with another one tonight or tomorrow over at Futurist.com, but I wanted to post my ...
Sunday, February 03, 2008

Doesn't Feel Like Global Warming

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today. It's pretty cold all over the Northwest, reportedly from a La Nina year. Implies the ocean currents have a more immediate affec...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Global Warming Opinions

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I spent the weekend at Rustycon , which is a small local science fiction convention in the Seattle area. I moderated two panels on global w...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Book Recommendation: Storm Chaser

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I don't often get sent books to review - I do recommend books that I like on my own writing site, and Glen Hiemstra and I both occasion...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Weird Weather

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Well, two days ago, I predicted the weird weather would continue this year. Here, it's cold and wintry, and kind of normal. But they...
Monday, January 07, 2008

Year End/Beginning - Personal Review and Goals

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sWell, in 2007, I started taking the bus at least a few days a week We changed out the washer and dryer for energy star appliances We chang...
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Sunday, January 06, 2008

Predictions for 2008

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Sorry for the long hiatus. I was busy finishing a book, which always takes a lot out of me, and we had the lovely chaos of the holidays (yes...
Monday, December 10, 2007

Missing From the Political Debate

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It's always frustrating when something you predict doesn't happen. But it's worse when it's something that really matters. ...
Saturday, December 08, 2007

The Clean, Green Economy

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“Peak Oil” is the time when half of the oil in the world has been harvested, and all harvests thereafter will be harder, slower, and more ex...
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Scarcity

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We had as much trouble finding LED lights as we had finding a Wii. Being tenacious people, we found both, but I was really happy to see th...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Rural America

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We went to the beach on the Washington coast for Thanksgiving. One of the things we noticed, at least in our rental house and rental houses...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Mass Transit is Good for Reading, and so is Amazon

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I've been taking the bus a lot more lately, and I rode the 250 Express over to a play in Seattle last night. We were stuck in even-wors...
Saturday, November 10, 2007

And now I've been to the FCC hearing...

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But I didn't get to talk to the FCC. Here is what happened.... The hearing got called with almost no notice. For 4:00 - 10:00 PM on the ...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

I've been to Villahermosa, Mexico, and New Orleans, LA, US

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And I'm pretty sure neither will ever look the same. Both were beautiful cities, both centers of unique cultures. It's not any one ...

Two Events of Note

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Saturday September 10 th is being billed as Carbon Offset Day - which translates to an opportunity to plant trees. Always a good idea. And...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Seattle Shines

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(This is a cross-post from one I made at Futurist.com) The City of Seattle reported that its on-target to its Kyoto goals. That is fabulous...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

CNN's Planet in Peril

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Appears to be a good show so far, about 10 minutes in. It's a bit interrupted by fire news. Global warming news interrupting global wa...

A Conversation at Work...

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Depending on which south you're in, the world is drying up around you or burning up around you. I work in the Pacific Northwest, where ...
Friday, October 19, 2007

Kansas blocks coal plant

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This morning I found a Washington Post story re-printed on page A16 of the Seattle Times. Pretty well buried. " Kansas cites carbon e...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Resource Wars: Water in the South

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I get an email called something like "The Homeland Security Daily Wire" every day at work. One topic in yesterday's email was...
Friday, October 12, 2007

Al Gore and the IPCC Deserved the Medal

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It's amazing how much grumbling has been going on about the Nobel Prize award today. But maybe that's a sign of how good and import...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Bits from Discover Brilliant

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I learned a lot from the Discover Brilliant conference...the last post referenced a little bit of it, and there was way more than I have tim...