Diluting the fuel supply: In Kansas, Stronger Mix of Ethanol | JunkScience.com

Intended as an additive to gasoline, ethanol in modern times was meant to stretch America’s fuel supplies, much as a cook uses chicken stock to increase the volume of a soup. By federal mandate, ethanol makes up about 10 percent of most fuel that motorists buy at the pump.

Global Warming: Does It Promote or Hinder Peace?

"Surprisingly," in the words of the University of California, San Diego researcher, "analysis at the system level suggests that global warming is associated with a reduction in interstate conflict," and that "incorporating measures of development, democracy, cross-border trade, and international institutions reveals that systemic trends toward peace are actually best accounted for by the increase in average international income," which in turn is driven by "the processes that are widely seen by experts as responsible for global warming." What is more, in the concluding sentence of his paper's abstract Gartzke writes that, "ironically, stagnating economic development in middle-income states caused by efforts to combat climate change could actually realize fears of climate-induced warfare." And thus he states in the concluding section of his paper that "we must add to the advantages of economic development that it appears to make countries more peaceful," and that we must therefore ask ourselves if environmental objectives should be "modified by the prospect that combating climate change could prolong the process of transition from warlike to peaceful polities."

Twitter / JeffDSachs: Politics led by climate-ch

Politics led by climate-change-denying fossil-fuel lobby. World faces droughts, storms, floods, fires, heat waves. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-1 …

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Director - The Earth Institute - Columbia University

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 80 countries. He has twice been named among Time Magazine's 100 most influential world leaders.

Twitter / jcrclarksonesq: I give fair warning. If an

I give fair warning. If anyone mentions global warming ever again, I will set them on fire.