Wind Power Will Need $60 Billion Upgrade To Our Grid
The Energy Challenge – Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid’s Limits – Series – NYTimes.com Wind advocates say that just two of the windiest states, North Dakota and South Dakota, could in principle...
View ArticleNorth Pole Still Melting
Arctic Sea Ice Drops to 2nd Lowest Level on Record | LiveScience In spite of a shift to what climatologists call the cold phase of a cycle in the North Pacific Ocean called the “Pacific Decadal...
View ArticleSpider Eats Bird
Joel Shakespeare, head spider keeper at the Australian Reptile Park, said the spider was a Golden Orb Weaver. “Normally they prey on large insects… it’s unusual to see one eating a bird,” he told...
View ArticleJellyfish Gone Wild
1. 1/3 of the total weight of all life in Monterey Bay is from gelatinous animals. 2. 3 minutes after a person is stung by a deadly box jellyfish, s/he may be dead. 3. 8 years after fast-reproducing...
View ArticleSouth-Central USA Most Deadly
Heat and drought caused 19.6 percent of total deaths from natural hazards, with summer thunderstorms causing 18.8 percent and winter weather causing 18.1 percent, the team at the University of South...
View ArticleAmericans Soft Tush Kills forests
luffiness comes at a price: millions of trees harvested in North America and in Latin American countries, including some percentage of trees from rare old-growth forests in Canada. Although toilet...
View ArticleFirst Direct Observation of Carbon Dioxide’s Increasing Greenhouse Effect at...
The scientists measured atmospheric carbon dioxide’s contribution to radiative forcing at two sites, one in Oklahoma and one on the North Slope of Alaska, from 2000 to the end of 2010. Radiative...
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