The Price Of Arctic Ice Putting an economic value on the loss of the Arctic's climate regulating abilities A report by the Pew Environment Group entitled An Initial Estimate of the Cost of Lost…

"The Age of Stupid," a 2009 docudrama set in 2055, asks why didn't we save Earth when we had the chance. "Stupid" was first conceived by Director Franny Armstrong as a documentary integrating themes…

Arctic Melt 2010 Is Faster Than Models Predicted The National Snow And Ice Data Center - NSISC - reports: Despite cool temperatures over most of the Arctic Ocean in January, Arctic sea ice extent…

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Earlier today I reported about the publication of a paper by a non-professional physicist, Carl Brannen. Now I have to do the same for a paper -the first one in a long and groundbreaking series, you…

How Can Ice Work Like A Horse? In this short series of articles about coal, engines and energy I am trying to show something of  the history behind our current knowledge of heat, energy and…

HAIFA, Israel, February 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries (TASE: ORL.TA) (ORL or the Company), announced today that it secured a $900 million financing framework in order to continue to implement the…

Administration Support for Biofuels is Part of a Bigger Policy Need February 4th, 2010 Goto comments Leave a comment President Obama and members of his Biofuels Interagency Working Group are to be…

This just in: Carl Brannen (here his blog) got a paper on gravitation published in a scientific magazine. Carl, who is the typical amateur who many "established scientists" in the blogosphere have…

Oh criminy, are we still confused? Didn't we go over this like a zillion times? Wasn't Deep-Sea News' excellent primer on how Humboldt Squid are Not The Same Thing as Giant Squid clear enough? Sigh.…