Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Sea-level to rise 8-inches by 2030 | JunkScience.com

A Florida telephone repairman sweats global warming — 75 miles inland.

How the Right-Wing Brain Works and What That Means for Progressives | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

 This essay draws upon Chris Mooney’s forthcoming book, The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality (due out in April from Wiley)

Soon, your toilet could heat your apartment building | Grist

So you could dump your toilet water into algae panels, and come out with clean water and green heating.

Record-breaking dead heat in Illinois for both polls and temperature | Bill McKibben | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Mitt Romney has been only slightly less ludicrous. His take: "Scientists will figure out ten, twenty, fifty years from now" if humans are a significant cause of global warming. In fact, fifty years from now, computer models predict, this kind of March will be nothing abnormal — and summer will be, if not exactly hell, then a remarkably similar temperature.

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