Allen Lew’s Thoughts

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Entries Tagged as 'Environment'

Understanding climate change and weird weather

August 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

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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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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