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- Whispers From the Ghosting Trees - Guest Post at Greg Laden's Science Blog
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Hallelujah! Obama SO gets it..as expounded by Science Advisor Holdren!!
"Nobody In Charge" - BP in the Wall Street Journal
"In the minutes after a cascade of gas explosions crippled the Deepwater Horizon on April 20, confusion reigned on the drilling platform. Flames were spreading rapidly, power was out, and terrified workers were leaping into the dark, oil-coated sea. Capt. Curt Kuchta, the vessel's commander, huddled on the bridge with about 10 other managers and crew members.
Andrea Fleytas, a 23-year-old worker who helped operate the rig's sophisticated navigation machinery, suddenly noticed a glaring oversight: No one had issued a distress signal to the outside world, she recalls in an interview. Ms. Fleytas grabbed the radio and began calling over a signal monitored by the Coast Guard and other vessels.
"Mayday, Mayday. This is Deepwater Horizon. We have an uncontrollable fire."
When Capt. Kuchta realized what she had done, he reprimanded her, she says.
"I didn't give you authority to do that," he said, according to Ms. Fleytas, who says she responded: "I'm sorry."
An examination by The Wall Street Journal of what happened aboard the Deepwater Horizon just before and after the explosions suggests the rig was unprepared for the kind of disaster that struck and was overwhelmed when it occurred. The events on the bridge raise questions about whether the rig's leaders were prepared for handling such a fast-moving emergency and for evacuating the rig—and, more broadly, whether the U.S. has sufficient safety rules for such complex drilling operations in very deep water."
Read the whole article here.
And here is the first part, BP Decisions Set Stage for Disaster
Thursday, May 27, 2010
The Hail Mary Pass
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Dendochronology
"'The region's trees and dead wood needed to do such research are disappearing rapidly from a combination of a massive die-off of trees, logging and population pressures,' Touchan said."
"'One of the most important ways to understand the climate variability is to use the proxy record, and one of the most reliable proxy records is tree rings,' said Touchan, an associate research professor at UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research."
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Reader's Choice!
Christian Groups: Biblical Armageddon Must Be Taught Alongside Global Warming
Liriodendron tulipifera
Arctic Next?
Arctic Drilling Next? Hell No!
Tell Secretary Salazar to Just Say "No" to Shell's Alaska Drilling:
us.greenpeace.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=User...
Sunday, May 23, 2010
The Chickens Come Home to Roost in the Age of Consequences
Initially I started this blog to record and investigate the death of trees from emissions of burning fuels. In the past year, it has become apparent that all forms of life are endangered.
“Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up. Hopeful people are actively engaged in defying the odds or changing the odds.” He quotes Vaclav Havel’s definition of hope as “an orientation of the heart” and “ability to work for something because it is good."
"We enter the age of consequences."
The fact is, the American life-style is going to change whether we do so deliberately, or it just happens – like it is happening in the gulf right now.
It’s an issue that needs to be addressed directly. The approach you recommend I liken to offering extra fresh fruit and vegetables to an overweight diabetic who is about to have a Happy Meal and expect them to lose weight. It’s not going to happen. You have to explain that they need to cut down on the Mac and fries or they are going to have a heart attack and die.
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- The Hail Mary Pass
- Dendochronology
- Mad as Hell! BP Booming School
- Reader's Choice!
- Man o'War and Fish, Swimming in Oil
- Liriodendron tulipifera
- Arctic Next?
- The Chickens Come Home to Roost in the Age of Cons...
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- Spiraling Out Of Control
- "They Want to Hide the Body"
- Where's the Oil?
- Tumbling Like Dominoes...or just Falling Like a Ho...
- Kudzu?
- "Blind Spot"
- Eureka!
- A Bird's Eye View of Ground Zero
- Spill, Baby, Spill!
- Ocean Acidification
- A Lament
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- Slide Show of Man-Made Disasters
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- How We Wrecked the Ocean
- Calculating the Cost
- Man O'War at Risk
- How I Hate Them!!
- The Right Whale
- Ka-ching!
- The March to Mass Extinction
- Sycamorosely Contemplating Sycamourning
- Notes From the Arctic
- Sixth Grade Doomer Contest
- Evapotranspiration
- An Uninhabitable Climate
- Goodbye, Sycamores.
- Day Trip
- Moi, On the Radio!
- They Took Away All the Trees
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