Posts tagged “Climate change”
Oil
Something terrible is supposed to happen on my birthday in 2012. I don’t put much stock in the predictions of the Mayan calendar, but the world oil shortfall that’s predicted to occur in 2012 probably won’t have many good consequences. We are completely unprepared to transition to a non-fossil fuel based economy, so I can […]
Coffee and climate change
I wonder if more people will believe climate change is a problem when coffee quadruples in price?
Snow leopard kittens & our burgeoning population
I came across this adorable overload of a snow leopard at the Akron zoo frolicking in the snow. I’m not going to tell you how many times I watched the video because then I’d have to come to terms with all of the homework I should have gotten done instead. The zoo snow leopard is […]
This is what climate change looks like
Scientists are masters of understatement: Findings of relatively slow tree migration rates in response to historical changes in climate (potentially < 100 m per year) are unfortunate in light of model predictions of how fast tree species will need to migrate to track current climates under climate change scenarios.* *Aitken, S N, S Yeaman, J […]
What I’ve Noticed
Father most certainly does NOT know best. Some men go to strip clubs at least in part because they don’t know how to tell their guy friends they like them. The link above explains that women are glue. This also suggests that women most certainly aren’t people. Jimmy Carter publicly denounces Southern Baptists because of […]
Faster and faster
People don’t want to deal with climate change if it disrupts their lives and the number of people in the US who don’t believe in climate change is increasing (despite the availability of information like this). This is silly because climate change is going to disrupt their lives a lot more than increasing public transportation […]
Well, that’s depressing
I attended a conference on water issues a few weeks ago and left feeling like there’s no way to implement successful policies before it’s too late. My research focuses on a tree that is quickly being extirpated from my state and is likely to go almost extinct in the next century or so, and lately […]