Oh Sarah, scuba weddings, geo engineering & talking to whales

// video added July 14, 2009 // 11 comments // // Embed video:
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Today's round up of what's up, down, and around in green. Check out the links below.
For the policy wonk in you: check out #ACES on twitter today to follow the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: hearing on "economic opportunities for agriculture, forestry communities, others in reducing global warming pollution."
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  • JanforGore
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  • leahl
  • plusaf
  • Johnll
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    • leahl:

      This guy sounds like he's helping someone run for office, I also believe that these people got this way; because they choose not to use condoms due to their belief in the christian belief. They want to become well off even if this means they are willing to exploit their means of living.........

    • 7 months ago
  • leahl
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    • On the afternoon of Sept. 25, 2002, a group of marine biologists vacationing on Isla San José, in Baja California Sur, Mexico, came upon a couple of whales stranded along the beach. A quick assessment indicated that they had died quite recently. The scientists radioed a passing vessel and sent a message to a colleague at a nearby marine-mammal laboratory, who came to the beach to do an examination.

    • 7 months ago
  • leahl
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    • Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an extremely powerful platform for spreading information and awareness about social causes and issues. That’s one of the reasons charities can benefit so greatly from being active on social media channels. But you can also do a lot to help your favorite charity or causes you are passionate about through social media.

    • 7 months ago
  • leahl
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    • A Florida scuba shop says it is seeking pastors, priests, rabbis and other religious officials for its latest promotion -- underwater weddings.

    • 7 months ago
  • Johnll
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    • leahl:

      I believe this is just a way for the owners to make some money, ...unless the happy couple is willing to be completely nude; then it seems logical.........

    • 7 months ago
  • leahl
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    • El Nino causes droughts in Asia and stronger Pacific hurricanes that can destroy lives. Even so, I'm still selfishly happy el Nino has returned to the Pacific. An el Nino means that 2009 will be a hot year, and that means the climate disruption deniers will have a harder time trumpeting that "the Earth is on a cooling trend" this year.

    • 7 months ago
  • plusaf
  • leahl
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    • leahl:

      Ha! Yes: taken out of context that would be a bit odd! Here's the section of the article that explains more :)

      1998 was the hottest year on record because of an extraordinarily powerful el Nino that heated up the entire planet dramatically. But because it was so hot, climate disruption deniers have been using it as the starting point from which they claim, wrongly, that “the global temperature has been cooling for a decade now.” This false claim was strengthened by the lucky coincidence that 2008 turned out to be a la Nina year, when the global temperature dropped significantly. Climate disruption deniers then took advantage of an unfortunate fact of least-squares linear trend estimates - they’re VERY sensitive to endpoint variation, especially in short, noisy datasets. And not only is global temperature noisy on a monthly and yearly basis, but ten years is a woefully short amount of data. And don’t even get me started on Joe D’Aleo’s, Lord Monckton’s, and Ross McKitrick’s 5-year “trend” from 2003 to 2008 which, conveniently enough, has another el Nino to la Nina transition.

      So now, with a new el Nino heating up the summer and autumn global temperatures by some as-yet-unknown amount, climate disruption scientists and activists have their own convenient endpoints to the data. 1999 was a la Nina year, after all, and 2009 is an el Nino year, so any trend calculated from 1999 to 2009 will be huge, given that global temperatures for July through December are significantly warmer on average than January through June. It’s not outside the realm of possibility that 2009 could be warm enough to turn the supposed “cooling trend” into a “warming trend” all by itself. And that’s the first reason I’m happy about a new el Nino.

    • 7 months ago
  • plusaf
  • leahl
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    • Golly. Mrs. Palin has a couple problems with the cap and trade plans, dontcha know. Seems it'll be awful expensive, and a little risky--and why bother when there's a big natural gas pipeline we can build, and this Arctic National Wilderness Refuge that's got a whole lot of oil we can use? Plus, coal's getting a whole lot cleaner these days, so we should just burn more of that, too--otherwise, everybody's going to lose their jobs. See, we just need to drill more, get more gas and oil from the US of A, and keep on keeping on with coal--and presto. Energy problems solved.

    • 7 months ago
  • Wetdog
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    • leahl:

      Jan, I prefer an import fee on imported oil. Simple, straight forward, good for the economy, good for national security and oil independence(targets the specific problem in that area, foreign oil)----and since there is no way that domestic production can make up the increased price on the 70% we import---it will make biofuels much more competitive.

      I think we should have an excise tax on coal to cover environmental losses to mining. I think we need to double the price of coal for damage to the land, the waters, and the air.

    • 7 months ago
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