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- Who has the most to lose from rising sea levels?
- Sure, Bengladesh is a low-lying country. We've seen what water does in New Orleans. There are entire low-lying COUNTRIES in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. High water would take a toll on atolls, of course. Amsterdam and much of northern Netherlands are famously threatened by high...
- Tags: Sea Level, VENICE GOES GREEN Venice, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Polar meltdown both north and south
- Arctic Ice Cover maps. Courtesy University of Washington/NOAA. That's the March ice cover on the left, September on the right. The top pair show current conditions, the bottom maps show thirty year model: ice free summers. The U.S. Geological Survey has compiled data confirming...
- Tags: Earth, Meltdown, Glacier, Sea Level, Ice Sheet, Sea Ice, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-04
- Global warming and coastal real estate
- Even if the real estate market eventually returns to pirce increases, you'd be wise not to invest in sea level properties. At least not this century. In a conference in Denmark this week, climate scientists warn the rising sea levels could go twice as high as previous projections...
- Tags: Scientist, Sea Level, Global Warming, Real Estate, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- More precious than platinum
- A few days with no water and we humans get our priorities straight. We're about to witness what happens when one of the largest farm economies in the world runs out of water. California looks to be headed to its worst drought since agri-business became big business in...
- Tags: California, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Global warning: act now
- That's the word from James Hansen, NASA scientist and head of the Goddard Institue of Space Studies. He says current policies are not working and that the U.S. must lead, not drag its feet. Hansen says cap-and-trade has not worked ot reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The...
- Tags: Scientist, Global Warming, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-19
- Scientists in Europe: be afraid, but there may be hope from friendly phytoplankton
- The European Geophysical Union is meeting. Not that you could tell from any American mainstream media coverage. Bet we couldn't find a single news reader at ABC or Fox who could even decipher EGU European Geophysical Union. But the EGU does exist in that rarified world beyond...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Scientist, Ocean, European Geophysical Union, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Plastic bags: going, going, go...
- Another small sign that the plastic bag is losing it. It being prominence, or even legal circulation. Plastic bags: how did we live before? Now that upscale, more-organic-than-thou chain of provender providers, Whole Foods, is going to stop using plastic bags at the checkout. ...
- Tags: China, Whole Foods, Trader Joe, Retail, Printers, Taxes, Free Trade, Hardware, Peripherals, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
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