Moon Beam — Lunar Panic
March 18, 2011As the Japanese continue to struggle with a nightmare, raising the seriousness bar on Friday to what’s called Level 5 — same as Three Mile Island — we’ve discovered the possibility of more nefarious shit…
Category Archives: Environment
‘A Pretty Penny’ — The Party’s About Over
March 15, 2011Dude, lose the car. From USATodayTravel: University of Iowa sophomore Jimmy Novak didn’t let $3.50-a-gallon gasoline prices keep him from making a spring break pilgrimage to Daytona Beach, Fla., with his fraternity brothers last weekend.…
Monday 4 AM — Sad State of Affairs
March 14, 2011From Aljazeera English: A second explosion rocked Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, sending a plume of smoke into the air and touching off fresh concerns of radioactive leak in the quake and tsunami-hit…
Picture Tomorrow
March 13, 2011UPDATE: Another example of corporate misleading, BP-like stonewalling in allowing the real truth of dangerous matters out to the public — from the NYT: On Sunday, Kumiko Fukaya, 48, who fled the area with several…
‘Berg Business
March 5, 2011Due maybe to the horrendous fact there’s so much weird, threatening news happening near-constantly, every day, day-in-day-out, a small blip on the event radar from last August couldn’t even register on the memory scale. On…
Quietus, Please
March 4, 2011And it really did come to this: “Oh my God. I’m back. I’m home. All the time, it was… We finally really did it. You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you!” Ah, George…
Weather Come Lately
March 2, 2011Expect more intense weather such as the repeating winter storms in the eastern US in the immediate future and for decades to come “until the climate grows so warm that we pass the point where…
Nuclear Exchange: ‘A Real Bummer’
February 26, 2011In the last few years, nuclear war and nuclear weapons has taken somewhat of a back seat to more conventional forms of killing (AK-47s, tanks, etc.) and even to the mega-simple (IEDs), but earlier this…
Clueless — ‘Worrisome to Dire’
February 24, 2011Canadians — what can you do? From a new poll by two Canadian organizations, the Public Policy Forum and Sustainable Prosperity: The survey, released Wednesday, found that 80 per cent of Canadians polled said they believe…
Hoot to Climate Change
February 23, 2011Interesting, new evidence of climate change via The Atlantic Wire: A study carried out over thirty years and published recently in the journal Nature Communications showed that while grey tawny owls had higher survival rates…