A Nation Of Meat Eaters: See How It All Adds Up : The Salt : NPR

there are fewer cows around than there were in the 1970s.

Captain Dan Kipnis, Boat Captain - YouTube

[One-minute video:  CO2 "acts like a stove"; when you add trace amounts of it to the atmosphere "all kinds of strange climate stuff happens"]

Trees, grass and gas: the battle for dominance | GrrlScientist | Science | guardian.co.uk

A new study shows that increasing carbon dioxide levels favour trees over grass, suggesting that large regions of Africa's savannas may be forests by the end of this century...I think this study's findings are scary.  [Wait, what?!  Aren't we always told that it's wonderful to grow trees in places that were previously treeless?]

Mayor Bloomberg uses a full-sized room A/C unit to cool his SUV | Grist

It really would be interesting to find out what moral calculus goes into Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s environmental decisions. It must go something like “I’m a big city mayor, working hard to draw down emissions on a municipal scale. Therefore, it is 100 percent justifiable that in my personal life, I fly regularly to the Bahamas and use A/C units intended for a whole apartment to keep my SUV a comfortable temperature.”

Twitter / RyanMaue: After setting a "record wa

After setting a "record warm" low temperature last night of 78F in Daytona Beach FL, it is currently 67F, which ties the record cold low. Ha