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The one big problem with NYC’s bikeshare | Felix Salmon

necdotally, a lot of people seem to be encountering “open rides”, where they think that they returned their bike, but the return isn’t registered in the system. That’s financially dangerous, of course: if you don’t return your bike, you’re liable for as much as $1,000...I’d say that roughly half the trips so far have been trouble-free at both the beginning and the end, while on the worst one I encountered four different broken stations (two at the beginning, and two at the end) before finding stations which were working.

Twitter / bryanrwalsh: Imagine a Metrocard that only ...

Imagine a Metrocard that only works on the subway half the time, unpredictably. That's been @CitibikeNYC for this annual member so far

Climate change study with a large side-order of caveats | Environment | guardian.co.uk

To use a drinking analogy, the findings come with a round of caveat chasers and bowls of bar snacks filled with uncertainties.  [Does this still count as "settled science"?]

Flashback: 'High School Physics' - WSJ.com

That's how Al Gore described the science of climate change this week, by which we suppose he meant it's elementary and unchallengeable.

More pieces of the global warming puzzle assembled by recent research | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Only about 2 percent of global warming is used in heating the Earth's atmosphere, while about 90 percent heats the oceans...research estimating the various contributions to global warming almost universally puts the human contribution at close to 100 percent over the past 50 years.