By Joe R on December 16th, 2009
There’s a subtle difference between predicting “Who did it?” in a mystery novel and “Who did it and how does it affect me?” in the real world. I used to especially love teaching middle school students because they were growing out of that cute but academically awkward little kid stage where they simply learned about new ideas, and into that stage where they started to apply, with various degrees of success, what they learned and molded it into their own opinion.
As I read daily about the ongoing COP 15 Copenhagen conference on climate change my mind races to keep up with the plethora of ideas, agreements and disagreements, and the seemingly never ending weaving of some sort of agreement on what to do about climate change. All that is good and well and should support healthy discussion-not diatribes nor pettiness-about what to do to stop global warming. Read more…
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Keywords: carbon emissions, Copenhagen Conference, earth, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse gas, Ozone Hole, pollution
By Joe R on November 11th, 2009
Recently a G-20 economic summit was hosted by the United States of America in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to discuss, among other things, the global economy, a growing global credit crisis, and ideas to stimulate the global economy to turn itself around. The G-20 is a group of 19 industrialized nations plus the European Union; considered to be the world’s wealthiest and most influential governments. Typically, I don’t follow the G-20 or its progression from what used to be the G-6, the G-7, the G7 plus 1, and so on. But there was one event at the September, 2009 meeting that I found fascinating and it had nothing to do with finance…on the face of it. However, it had to do with the real possibility of a sovereign nation simply disappearing off the face of the Earth.
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Keywords: co2, conservation, coral reefs, earth, education, environment, G-20, global warming, greenhouse gas, responsibility, rising sea levels, water
By Loyd on September 10th, 2009
The tilted plane of the camera creates the illusion of a flat surface of Mars when in reality the gullies are on the sloped side of Hale Crater. Scientists believe such gullies are strong evidence liquid water flowed on Mars in the not too distant past. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
For years science fiction writers have spun stories of man inhabiting Mars and scientists agree that Mars holds the highest chance for successful human habitation. This week the University of Arizona which runs the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) equipment mounted on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter released a series of stunning photos of the surface of Mars from perspective you might have if you were flying overhead in an airplane. Read more…
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Keywords: earth, Mars, water, water conservation
