3,000 light up candles near Tokyo Tower in bid to prevent global warming - The Mainichi Daily News

Some 3,000 people spent a quiet evening surrounded by candlelights at Zojo-ji Temple in Tokyo's Minato Ward on June 20 as part of a bid to prevent global warming.

The event was part of the Hyakuman-nin no Candle Night (candle night of 1 million people) movement, which calls on people to contribute to preventing global warming by switching off lights and spending a quiet night by candles.

ESR | June 21, 2010 | Making good science decisions

There's no question that the mainstream media have aided, abetted and encouraged the irrationality. In fairness, the media also trumpet the news of new scientific breakthroughs—but their news instincts home in more aggressively on bad news. Moreover, we in the First World don't really have much really serious stuff to complain about anymore except for the politicians we ourselves elect. That leaves the journalists short of the bad news they crave.

Ergo, they have turned to the activists for scare stories and there have been a zillion of those. Working together, the journalists and activists have helped create the backlash against science. The journalists are paying for this now, of course, as the public has gotten "scare fatigue." The Internet and talk radio have given a broader perspective, and called the mainstream media's judgment into serious question. People are simply not buying the newspapers or watching the network TV news as did an earlier generation.

Al Fin: The Gulf of Mexico is Alive and Will Recover Promptly

The Gulf of Mexico recovered promptly from a much worse spill in 1979, Ixtoc I. Recovery from the Macondo spill should be appreciably quicker, given the greater distance from shore, lesser quantity of liquid, and lighter grade of hydrocarbon.

Save the world — whitewash the Andes « JoNova

The World Bank has awarded a Peruvian inventor $200,000 to paint rocks white. They hope if they make them the right colour the glacier will come back…