The water crisis has already begun, and it is not confined to sub-Saharan Africa. As many as 20 million people in the USA are at risk of not having enough water within 5 years. This is caused by a combination of rapid population growth, overdrawing water from the rivers and aquifers, and increasing evaporation and reduced snowpacks as a result of global warming. Many areas will run out of water within a few years. Here’s a...
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What’s Happening to the Bees?
This is a good article that discusses the sudden dye-off of the bees, which is puttung one third of North American agriculture at risk because famers have come to rely on this single specie of pollinators. Suddenly, the bees farmers and growers rely on are vanishing. Researchers are scrambling to find out why. By Moises Velasquez-Manoff What’s Happening to the Bees?
Overexploitation of our planet
We humans are so stupid we keep overexploiting all of our precious resources. We are rapidly depleting oil resources and causing Global Warming in the process; we are destroying our forests, the lungs of our planet; we have decimated most of the medium to large species of mammals; we are doing the same thing to sea-life, our most precious source of food, and most people don’t even realize it since those poor sea creatures...
The Biofuel Illusion
I’ve always been opposed to the use of various crops for producing biofuels. While they sound good on the surface, when you look at them more closely it is easy to see that they entail more drawbacks than benefits. First of all these biofuels are not effective energy sources because they require nearly as much energy to produce as they end-up containing (same goes for hydrogen by the way). Various studies show that ethanol...
MIT-led panel backs ‘heat mining’ as key U.S. energy source
A comprehensive new MIT-led study of the potential for geothermal energy within the United States has found that mining the huge amounts of heat that reside as stored thermal energy in the Earth’s hard rock crust could supply a substantial portion of the electricity the United States will need in the future, probably at competitive prices and with minimal environmental impact. An 18-member panel led by MIT prepared the 400-plus page study, titled “The...
Organic Farming to Reduce Global Warming?
According to this article by Stephen Leahy, organic farming can greatly reduce green house gas emissions, and it creates crops that are more resistent to the impact of global warming. Sounds like a win-win situation to me!
United States Climate Action Partnership
The United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) is a group of American companies who decided to do something about climate change. They put forward the following six principles that they would like the US Government to embrace (good luck): Account for the global dimensions of climate change; Create incentives for technology innovation; Be environmentally effective; Create economic opportunity and advantage; Be fair to sectors disproportionately impacted; and Reward early action. They have also published a report...
The Challenge of Sustainable Water
Water supplies around the world are already severely stressed. Population growth and global warming will only worsen those problems. By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Scientific American While oil shortages grab the headlines, water scarcity is creating at least as many headaches around the world. The most dramatic conditions are in Asia, where the world’s two megacountries, China and India, are grappling with deepening and unsolved water challenges. China’s great northern plain, home to more than...