Sunday, March 11, 2012

Althouse: What is the carbon footprint of the 340-ton rock transported on a 196-wheel vehicle on an 11-day journey to an art museum in L.A.?

And why doesn't The New York Times, celebrating the project on its website front page, question the environmentalism of this project?

It's art precisely because it has no practical use. Meanwhile, driving a mid-sized car or turning on an incandescent lightbulb is an environmental sin, characteristic of our ordinary lives, for which the NYT never tires of shaming us.

Corals Survived And Adapted To Massive Bleaching Event In Southeast Asia, Study

Calling it a controversial hypothesis, Guest said that many scientists believe that corals have exhausted their capacity to adapt to thermal stress.

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