Posted in Global Warming, tagged Electric cars, Wikipedia on April 19, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m going to kill two birds with one stone in this post. I started out researching electric cars and quickly discovered one of the best sources of information on them is Wikipedia. Since this came just after seeing a major attack on Wikipedia the contrast of the two stories is too hard to ignore. If [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Science on April 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Unless you are a scientist working on a very specific area of research and actually understand a particular phenomenon in detail, you take everything else stated as true by science on faith. When I argue with my friends we need to change society to slow down global warming I’m really preaching on faith – my [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Going Paperless, Kindle, Magazines, Newspapers on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When my Time magazine renewal came in recently I decided not to renew. I had been paying about $29 a year and now it was $49, and I thought that too much. Then on Saturday I saw the new issue at my favorite bookstore and wanted to read it, but I passed on it thinking [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Science Fiction on February 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve yet to read any science fiction extrapolating stories about the effects of global warming. The Road by Cormac McCarthy could be about global warming but it could also be about anything that brings on the collapse of civilization. So I jumped over to Google and searched on ["science fiction" "global warming"] and discovered there [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Least Popular on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve enjoyed a lot of embedded film clips on the blogs I read so I thought I’d experiment and try to embed a clip here, unfortunately I learned through trial and error and the FAQ page at WordPress that Flash videos are a no-no. That’s too bad. If you want to watch the film I’m [...]
Posted in Global Warming on February 18, 2008 | 12 Comments »
For many people the thought that humans are the cause of global warming is unbelievable. Some refuse to believe, others can’t believe. I’ve always wondered why. Sometimes I think it might be a religious issue. If you believe in God and believe that God takes care of us, why would he allow us to do [...]
Posted in Global Warming on December 1, 2007 | No Comments »
People do not like to change their habits. I’m a fat cat that needs to lower both my calorie and carbon footprints. Like dieting, global warming requires cutting back on consumption, which means changing habits, which means going against human nature. Most people want to wait until the federal government does something [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Inventions on September 1, 2007 | 11 Comments »
I think crystal balls are showing households should become more energy independent, or at least, less dependent on distant sources of energy. The first line of attack on this problem is to just use less energy, but another solution, which for me is a long term solution, is to produce energy locally. This is neither [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Memory, Science Fiction on April 8, 2007 | 8 Comments »
What would it be like to be a kid today? Is the world scarier now than when I was growing up? Are the children and grandchildren of the baby boomers any smarter than that famous generation that made such a fuss and expected the whole world to watch? The 1960s radicals wanted a revolution, the [...]
Posted in Computers, Global Warming, Philosophy on March 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ever since I saw An Inconvenient Truth I’ve been pondering ways to do my part to use less carbon. Since I work with computers the first idea I had was to stop leaving my computers on 24-hours a day. That isn’t easy since at work I manage four servers and have two computers for programming. [...]
