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From the ashes...
Anybody else in the mood for some Stravinsky?
As many of you know, the original eKos widget went down in flames a couple of weeks ago. But just like the mythical firebird, out of the ashes of the old widget a new widget arose:
This is one I made myself (flex and actionscript in Flashdevelop). I do not consider myself a designer, developer, or programmer, so although it seems to work right now, I can't promise it won't have problems in the future. If there are any, or if you just can't stand the color scheme I chose, please feel free to leave a comment or send me an e-mail. I can make changes easily enough without causing any disruption to the service.
If you would like to start embedding the code into diaries (I'll have to make a smaller version for comments) right away, just copy and paste the following:
<embed src="http://ekos350.x10hosting.com/eKosRSS.swf" width="642" height="234"></embed>
I'll create a Google doc for future use, and we'll put or link to that code at the end of future Earthships.
Not really news: last winter's snowstorm fails to disprove global warming
from Science Daily
Hey, look! James Inhofe gets mentioned in a Science Daily article:
The memory of last winter's blizzards may be fading in this summer's searing heat, but scientists studying them have detected a perfect storm of converging weather patterns that had little relation to climate change. The extraordinarily cold, snowy weather that hit parts of the U.S. East Coast and Europe was the result of a collision of two periodic weather patterns in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds.
It was the snowiest winter on record for Washington D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia, where more than six feet of snow fell over each. After a blizzard shut down the nation's capital, skeptics of global warming used the frozen landscape to suggest that manmade climate change did not exist, with the family of conservative senator James Inhofe posing next to an igloo labeled "Al Gore's new home."
After analyzing 60 years of snowfall measurements, a team of scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found that the anomalous winter was caused by two colliding weather events. El Niño, the cyclic warming of the tropical Pacific, brought wet weather to the southeastern U.S. at the same time that a strong negative phase in a pressure cycle called the North Atlantic Oscillation pushed frigid air from the arctic down the East Coast and across northwest Europe. End result: more snow.
Global warming and water shortages in the US
from NRDC
Climate change will impact water supplies, exacerbating existing pressures on water resources caused by population and economic growth. Given the combination of these stressors, the sustainability of water resources in future decades is a concern in many parts of the world. This study presents an integration of water withdrawal projections and future estimates of renewable water supply across the United States to assess future water availability in the face of a changing climate. The water demand projections in this work are based on business-as-usual trends in growth, particularly of population and energy demand, and renewable water supply projections are based on the average results of an ensemble of sixteen established climate models. The analysis is performed using annual water use data at the US county level, and using global climate model outputs for temperature and precipitation, both projected 20-40 years into the future. The analysis provides a national-scale evaluation of the results of changing water demand and supply, and helps identify regions that are most susceptible to climate change.
WarrenS made a New Year's Resolution to write a letter advocating climate action every day. The result is over two hundred letters to congresspeople, newspapers, President Obama, and more. Warren has even had letters published in the New York Times and the Boston Globe.
Learn Warren's letter writing technique here. And be sure to steal his stuff!
From his blog:
Month 7, Day 27: Can I Get In Three Times This Year?
I’m about due for another round at the New York Times. They had a trifecta of editorials this weekend; I chose to respond to Lee Wasserman’s, but the other two are worth reading — Ross Douthat’s because it’s always good to know what people who aren’t thinking are thinking (the comments on his piece are excellent and a real relief to read), and Paul Krugman’s because he’s right, as he usually is.
As Lee Wasserman points out, the "loudest voices" in the climate debate won this round, to our collective detriment. But it is essential to note that our national news media helped make the collapse of a climate bill inevitable, by upholding a reportorial policy of false equivalence in which every climatologist’s scary prediction was "balanced" by a denialist’s dismissal. Unfortunately, the laws of physics don’t listen to TV news or op-ed pages. Anthropogenic global warming is recognized as a major threat to the human species by an overwhelming majority of climate scientists. To properly represent the "debate" over climate change, our media should show ninety-seven scientific authorities for every three industry-funded "skeptics." A well-informed citizenry would have been better able to assess the true risks and rewards of meaningful action on climate. In this respect, the Fourth Estate has abdicated its responsibilities; we are all the losers for it.
WarrenS
Today's image is from NatGeo's Animal Pic of the Day. Naturally, there are many more where this came from. Hopefully I'll be mimicking this grizzly here in about 20 minutes.
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eKos diaries from Monday, July 26, 2010 |
Diary | Author | Time (Eastern) | Tags |
A Tale of Two Neighborhoods | Muskegon Critic | 7/26/2010 1:55:56 AM | Recommended, offshore wind power, west michigan, wind power, green jobs |
BP Catastrophe Liveblog Mothership: 62 | Gulf Watchers | 7/26/2010 6:00:00 AM | Oilpocalypse, BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, LMRP |
Congressional Candidates’ Views on Clean Energy, Climate Change: PA-08 | Lowell Feld NRDC Action Fund | 7/26/2010 10:05:52 AM | ekos, NRDC Action Fund, clean energy, climate change, PA-08 |
Natural Gas Vehicles: an 'ethanol'-like boondoggle? | A Siegel | 7/26/2010 10:17:04 AM | t boone pickens, ekos, senator harry reid, climate change, energy |
Village Green: the Crumbling of the DC Metro | Kaid at NRDC | 7/26/2010 12:04:08 PM | environment, cities, transportation, DC, Metro |
Road not taken, roads ahead on climate. | RLMiller | 7/26/2010 12:36:27 PM | Recommended, eKos, climate change, global warming, Environmental Protection Agency |
Bad Bob Is Da Mad Bomber In Geothermal Power | terryhallinan | 7/26/2010 1:55:14 PM | geothermal power, eKos |
Science Tidbits | possum | 7/26/2010 3:42:42 PM | Science, Learning, Teaching, eKos |
ACTION! Utah seeks 1st tar sands project in US history | LaughingPlanet | 7/26/2010 5:45:36 PM | eKos, tar sands, climate change, global warming, oil sands |
Macca's Meatless Monday...Here comes the 2nd Anniversary Party! | beach babe in fl | 7/26/2010 6:05:55 PM | eKos, Meatless Monday, green, livestock production, meat |
eKos diaries from Sunday, July 25, 2010 |
Diary | Author | Time (Eastern) | Tags |
Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Netroots Nation 2010 edition) | Neon Vincent | 7/25/2010 12:13:57 AM | Recommended, Overnight News Digest, OND, science, space |
BP Catastrophe Liveblog Mothership: 61 | Gulf Watchers | 7/25/2010 6:00:02 AM | Oilpocalypse, BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, LMRP |
JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! The political, economic, climate solution ... | A Siegel | 7/25/2010 8:33:58 AM | ekos, economy, energy, clean energy jobs |
News from the Arctic: 25 July 2010 | billlaurelMD | 7/25/2010 11:25:04 AM | eKos, environment, climate change, global warming, Arctic sea ice |
The climate bill is dead. Long live the climate bill! | lipowg | 7/25/2010 11:54:38 AM | Climate Bill, cap-and-trade, climate change, global warming, ekos |
And on the Seventh Day, God said 'E.C.S.T.A.S.Y.' ! | DelicateMonster | 7/25/2010 12:11:29 PM | bible, sustainability, ECSTASY, eKos, Daniel Quinn |
Disruptive Technology, Micro Solar, and Recovery Act Innovation | jamess | 7/25/2010 6:24:40 PM | Recovery Act, Clean Energy, Solar Energy, Photovoltaic Cells, Nano Solar |
Brothers and Sisters at DailyKos - What we have forgotten | brothers and sisters at dailykos | 7/25/2010 7:40:22 PM | Brothers and Sisters at Daily Kos, eKos |
eKos diaries from Saturday, July 24, 2010 |
Diary | Author | Time (Eastern) | Tags |
BP Catastrophe Liveblog Mothership: 60 | Gulf Watchers | 7/24/2010 6:41:27 AM | Oilpocalypse, BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, LMRP |
Final Update #10: The Week in Editorial Cartoons- Mission Accomplished | JekyllnHyde | 7/24/2010 7:52:09 AM | Recommended, The Week in Editorial Cartoons, ekos, British Petroleum, Republican Party |
Animal NUZ: A Daily Kos Exclusive Comic Strip #4 | ericlewis0 | 7/24/2010 10:00:38 AM | Animal Nuz, eKos |
All SMOG-trucks to be transformed to natural gas! | jovie131 | 7/24/2010 2:44:59 PM | natural gas, pickens plan, t boone pickens, energy, natural gas vehicles |
Solitude | jamess | 7/24/2010 3:14:58 PM | Meta, Pix, Photos, Solitude, Society |
Most Successful Conspiracy Theory Evah (UPDATED) | Steven D | 7/24/2010 5:05:00 PM | Global Warming, Climate Change, IPCC, United Nations, Al Gore |
Let's take over August with Climate Parties! | texas dem | 7/24/2010 5:39:51 PM | climate, energy, cap and trade, legislation, activism |
NYT editorial: Obama must lead on climate legislation | Laurence Lewis | 7/24/2010 8:46:04 PM | Climate Change, Energy, Barack Obama, eKos |
Gulf Coast, a reminder | Knucklehead | 7/24/2010 11:04:39 PM | gulf life, marine life, images, eKos, teaching |
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