Often we lose sight of our place in the universe, some never knew at all just how miniscule we humans are compared to everything else. There’s a tendency to view…
Free Carbon Offsets now available for the monetarily challenged
It’s nice to see social equality kick in from time to time. For example, not everyone can afford to buy carbon offsets like Al Gore to assuage our guilt for…
My New Toy: Global Climate Modeling on my PC
I have a new toy. Its one of the Global Climate Models that is being used to predict the future of Earth’s climate and the effects of global warming. Originally…
Earth's Climate is see-sawing
Lund University in Sweden has just released a very interesting research summary titled: “The Earth’s climate is seesawing”. Here is the short opening summary: “During the last 10,000 years climate…
Major Daily Newspapers in Circulation Decline
I’m very distressed to read this. Newspapers are the life blood of a community. Television news has also been in decline, but television doesn’t become the record for the community,…
Light Bulbs and Mercury Part 2
In my last entry I raised three questions about Compact Flourescent Light bulbs aka CFL’s 1) What about regular fluorescent tubes? They have mercury too, and sometimes in greater quantity.…
Steel and Concrete -vs- Fire
This Thursday, the Chico News and Review will be doing a story covering the pro and cons of the people that have been lobbying editor Evan Tuchinsky for more coverage…
Light Bulbs and Mercury
How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb? About $4.28 for the bulb and labor — unless you break the bulb. Then you, like Brandy…
Sun getting bubbly: Coronal Mass Ejection may hit Earth
We had "yellow" level geomagnetic activity on the sun last night, and more may come tonight and tomorrow night. Its coming from Sunspot 953, which is about 3 times the…
NEWSFLASH: Cause for Global Warming Found
An astute letter to the editor writer in Arkansas has found the reason for global warming: This actually happened, as attested to on the rumor/urban legend verifcation website Snopes.com
Follow up to "Cell Phones Kill Bees" story
About two weeks ago I published this story about the loony idea that was proposed by some researcher in Europe about “cell phone radiation may be killing bees”. I pointed…
Internet Radio may get a reprieve
In Today’s Chico News and Review, the cover story is about Internet Radio and all the trouble the Copyright Royalty Board recently caused with a draconian ruling on the cost…
The Carbonica Card – don't heat home without it
A recent investigation by the Financial Times says that the new Carbon Credit Industry may already be rife with fraud. Hmmm…now where have we heard that before? Among the findings:…
When the earth was purple
Have you ever wondered why the vast majority of plants and trees have green leaves and not some other color? It’s always been a bit of a mystery why plants…
On Trees, ordinances, obstructionism, and compromise
This post is an outgrowth of comments I made on Commission Impossible on the new proposed strengthened tree ordinance. I like trees, and I recently planted four, but at the…
Ultimate lunacy: Dell says plant "virtual trees" for Earth Day
From the "you’ve GOT to be freaking kidding me" department: Dell’s Virtual Plant a Tree for Me program into the computer game Second Life has many tech savvy people wondering…
My New Weather Invention – Now 100% pig free!
For those of us that hate having Winnie the pig presented to us as part of our local weather report, I’d like to offer this solution that cuts all of…
Human blood may contain a cure For AIDS – it just needs to be amplified
Here’s some encouraging news: German scientists at the University of Ulm have identified a natural ingredient of human blood that prevents the HIV-1 virus from from infecting immune cells and…
Delta Airlines says: A sucker born every minute
Recently I received this email from Delta Airlines with the offer that now I could pay extra money for my airline ticket so that Delta could contribute to global warming…
Asteroid flyby tonight
Newly discovered asteroid 2007 HA is flying past Earth today about 2.5 million kilometers away. It’s big (300 meters wide), bright (13th magnitude), and an easy target for large backyard…
Daylight Saving Time snafu lands kid in jail
From the “spring forward fall back” department: A fifteen-year old boy in Pennsylvania was incarcerated for twelve days, wrongly accused of making a hoax bomb threat – because his school…
Panic of the Day: Cell Phones Kill Bees
There’s an article on UK’s The Independent website about a most unusual scientific theory. “Cell Phones kill bees.” From the article: Some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile…
What's that Smell?
Today the ER editorial Board poked some fun in Hits and Misses at the proposed forensic body farm, and Bidwell Ranch by suggesting I add a “stink-o-meter” to my www.bidwellranchcam.com…
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