Tony K’s got something to say

Now at first glance of my title the answer seems like a no-brainer, of course we can. But in fact we continue to pollute our environment, drawing closer a time when we may find our home an inhospitable place–and please spare me from the argument that we can relocate to another planet, if that […]

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Global Warming Another Emerging Topic - WaPo
Back Into the Black: Profiting on a Green China - WaPo
Ministers haggle over fish quotas - BBC (seriously, can we find a method of fishing that won’t deplete the entire ocean?? Next time a trawler pulls everything possible out of the Sea, can someone just slap the captain […]

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Pact Clears Way for Westinghouse to Build Nuclear Plants in China - WaPo (Something is just not settling right with me on this one…please comment and help me think through this one…)

“This is an exciting day for the U.S. nuclear industry,” Bodman said at the ceremony. “It is an example that if we work together, […]

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GM Cuts Energy Use by One-Quarter at North American Facilities - GreenBiz

Penguins offer evidence of global warming - Reuters
Sea Level May Rise 40 Percent Higher Than Predicted, Study Says - Nat Geo
Global Warming Poses Threat to Ski Resorts in the Alps - NYT
Location is key for trees to fight global warming - New Scientist
Care needed […]

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Getting Miles-Per-Gallon Estimates to Finally Stick - Time
Who Americans Are and What They Do - NYT
Global Warming Trend Continues in 2006, Climate Agencies Say - NYT
Gore tells scientists to be vocal - BBC
Sea level rise ‘under-estimated’ - BBC
Global warming link to hurricanes likely but unproven - New Scientist Environment
On the blog front:
World Changing has a […]

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Google patents, got an idea? Think it’s the first, go find out. Google claims to have over 7000 patents collected and I am sure they are grabbing more.

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First a little more on the censoring of U.S. science from the WaPo
USGS Scientists Object To Stricter Review Rules Pre-Publication Policy Seen as Cumbersome

“I feel as though we’ve got someone looking over our shoulder at every damn thing we do. And to me that’s a very scary thing,” Estes said, adding that it will be […]

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