From Wired Science:
No, you cannot blame individual events like [the tornado in Brooklyn] on climate change, as it was possible for them to occur even without the human-made changes to the atmosphere. However, it is fair to ask whether the human changes have altered the likelihood of such events. There the answer seems [...]
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Understanding climate change and weird weather
August 9th, 2007 · Comments Off
Tags: Asides · Quotes · Science · Climate Change · Environment · Global Warming
Turning food wrappers into fuel
April 13th, 2007 · Comments Off
NY Times:
“Dr. [Richard] Gross, a professor of chemistry at Polytechnic University, in Brooklyn, is turning plant oils, of the kind already used to make biodiesel, into “bioplastic.” The plastics can be films or rigid, as are commonly found in food packaging. Then he uses a naturally occurring enzyme to break down the plastic into [...]
Tags: Asides · Science · Environment · Mr. Fusion
An Inconvenient Truth
June 27th, 2006 · Comments Off
I finally got a chance to this movie and all I can say is wow. It’s been said this movie will terrify you, and it will. It puts together so much information on global warming. After seeing this movie, I feel as though I am more equipped to talk about global warming. [...]
Tags: Movies · Reviews · Science · Al Gore · Climate Change · Environment · Global Warming
Top 10 Accidental Discoveries
March 5th, 2006 · Comments Off
The 10 Greatest Accidental Discoveries- Proving that even accidents produce great results. (via Digg)
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