Riled Up

I found this article online. Quite devastating, really:

Climate change scientists admit they’d left it all up to East Anglia

NORWICH, U.K. –  The case for global warming has crumbled.

Why? Because one email from one scientist at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, Britain, used the world “trick” to describe how he came up with a [...]

A fly-by photo from NASA of one of Saturn’s moons. Those worlds ain’t dead, folks. May not be little green men up there, but there’s s-o-m-e-t-h-i-n-g worth looking at.

And here’s a great op-ed from Bob Herbert called “Signs of Hope” about a Detroiter who’s building solar panels. Could Detroit, the great engine of the 20th c., help power the 21st?– Reilly Capps

Here’s a great article from the BBC on money and climate change. Rich countries (well, many of the rich countries, but not ours) pledged a bunch of dough to poor countries to help them battle the climate change beast. [...]

A photo from ESA‘s interplanetary Rosetta spacecraft.

A species is fighting its way back from the brink. In Cambodia, of all places, that dark and unpredictable place.

Daniel Nocera gave a talk in my town, and while I’m not smart enough to understand whether his invention will work, the fact that other smart people think it might work is enough to give me hope. Here he is in the Time 100. — Reilly Capps, reillycapps@gmail.com.

The honest phase of the global warming debate is long over, and now we’re into the petty part. The part where the people who have lost the debate get desperate.

Here’s an oil company ad from 1962. The company’s math might have been wrong, but their general idea was absolutely right.

Pets are people, too, says the popular slogan.

Which of course never made any sense.

Now a new book says: pets are SUVs.

(Which makes a little bit more sense.)