The former Attorney General of Norway, Georg Fredrik Rieber-Mohn, made a statement today warning Canada to take the threat to wild salmon posed by open net salmon farms. The essay length piece is straightforward, intelligent, and quite concise about what needs to be done to protect BC’s wild salmon: “If you want to protect wild [...]
Archive for February, 2010
8 Feb
Remember Climategate?
I didn’t. Climategate is the nickname for the security breach at the University of East Anglia that saw some 3000 internal files related to climatology, including around 1000 personal emails exchanged by faculty members conducting climate research. According to climate skeptics, some of the emails contained evidence (mostly text exchanges) that leading researchers who supported [...]
4 Feb
Kicking stuff – the energy source of the future?
…no. But this is still pretty cool; a group of students at Harvard have developed a soccer ball that becomes charged with electrical energy through use. When it’s fully charged, you can use it to power simple devices like cell phones and LED lights. Obviously this isn’t going to drive nuclear power plants or solar [...]
3 Feb
California to begin installing statewide greenhouse gas emissions monitoring system
California is beginning the process of installing a statewide network of machines that will monitor acute greenhouse gas emissions from major pollution sources, such as animal feedlots and other industrial scale operations. The machines are manufactured by a company in Silicon Valley, Picarro, and cost about $50,000 dollars a pop. That may sound like a [...]
