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POPSConcern as China clamps down on rare earth exports The thing about this prediction is that it is a certainty, and only a couple of years away. The only alternative to renewables is to use much less energy. Lack of competition from renwables will accelerate the increase in the price of oil and coal.
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POPSDemise of news barons is just a Marxist fantasy One of the problems with professional journalism these days is that it operates using attacks based on assumed personal motivation (ad hominem argument or name calling), rather than on the basis of open facts. The fact that a professor of journalism should argue in this way augers poorly for the future of the 'profession'. For one who started life as an old fashioned newspaperman without the benefit of schools of journalism, I can only say that the quality of journalism has fallen since it achieved the status of a profession, rather than as a craft learned on the job. We learned values, too, not just a list of 'ethics'. Citizen journalists are doing just that, learning on the job. More power to them, (and less to Murdoch 'professionals').
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POPSThe UK Meteorological Office: slightly less reliable than tea leaves or cock entrails How does the Met Office know this? Because it’s on a mission, that’s why. Visit its website and you’ll quickly appreciate how this supposedly authoritative and balanced taxpayer-funded body has become the most strident activist on behalf of the global climate-fear-promotion movement. According to the Met Office’s official climate change guide, computer models are “reliable”, the “overwhelming majority of scientists agree on the fundamentals of climate change”, human activity is a major driver of climate change and the Urban Heat Island Effect is an urban myth.
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POPSPostcard from a Tipping Planet During the current review, we are doing to our Clipmarks Clipbase under the headings of Energy and Climate, I found this item clipped in June 2008. It was very freaky then. It is even more so now after Nohopeinhagan. All we can do is love nature and each other in the time there is left ... which is what we should have been doing all along! Surely, it is better to be aware of the risks, than to ignore them. The 2008 IPCC projections which this cartoon is based were much more optimistic than current estimates because the rate of acceleration of both emissions and climate heating was underestimated (and probably still is).
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POPSLAO | Spotlight & Sunshine on So Cal Today New Year's Day 2010 is more than football ... it is also about the Rose Parade and a chance for millions to watch this glorious production on television or in person. If you watching from a more frigid location, today's forecast for Pasadena: Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Local north winds around 15 mph in the morning.
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POPSThreats to Yemen Prove America Hasn't Learned the Lesson of History It used to be that it was considered unwise to open conflict on two fronts at once. It won't be long before the terrorists figure out that it is much easier and more effective to explode their bombs in airports before going through "security". Rule number one when dealing with hornets is not to stir them up. (Thanks to Liam Fox for the link.)
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POPSForecast 2010: The Center does Not Hold... (1) I have tagged this clip: #degrowth. If anyone makes clips on similar subject matter could I ask them to tag them #degrowth. Then we can have immediate access to a unique collection (which can then be analysed by the likes of us).
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POPSObama's health insurance is deadly fiasco I don't usually comment on US health care, BUT to be *forced* to pay private profit-making company for inadequate health coverage, with premiums increasing as I age, would make me very riled. And the policy won't do any good for the image of Obama, the Federales, or the health insurance industry. Where is Ralph Nader and a third Party when you need them? Couldn't he get together with Ron Paul -- the ultimate coalition. Howard Dean seems to understand what's going on, but he's an MD. If I were an American, then I would want to try something different. Anything! Why aren't people organising?
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POPSMonkey to be sent to Mars Obscene, chilling, cruel, insane, immoral ... The question is not whether animals (or humans) have rights. It is by what right do humans carry out such horrors on the innocent? The answer is by their Might only. Which is against all ethical behaviour which by definition starts with Might is NOT right. If it was, every evil is permissible. As, indeed, it seems to be these days ...
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POPSEast coast... PTL!!! Those living along the eastern third of the nation, should brace yourselves for this one!!!
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POPSBurgers, Alzheimer's and GM Mice This article is too strange ... aside from the obvious - junk burgers give you Alheimer's Disease ... the part about genetically modifying mice to be "prone" to AD and then forcing them to eat junk burgers is just cruel.
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POPSIf climate change doesn’t grab you, meet its evil twin This catastrophe is in addition to over fishing, trawling seabeds, massive "soups" of poisonous plastic particles thousands of miles wide, not to mention all the other pollution that ends up in the sea. Mankind's abuse of its life supporting environment is almost to enormous to comprehend. What is happening in the sea is clear for all to see, even if the climate science is slightly foggy at the moment.
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POPS2010 could be warmest year on record (1) Nobody talks about consciousnes change leading to a new way of understanding what wealth means beyond the very basics of survival. If everyone just did everything they could to assist in the grand project of helping to heal nature which (some) people have harmed so grievously, then there may be a chance. All real wealth is co-owned and co-created by all life and the planet for the mutual benefit of all the stakeholders, both human and non-human. What is required is no more (and no less) than to redefine the purpose of life.
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