Proper Building Codes Save Lives

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/

Christchurch, New Zealand was hit with a 7.0 magnitude earthquake last Friday, which caused up to 11 feet of horizontal displacement. Yet no one was killed and only two people were injured.

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The “Environmentalists Paradox”

Cartoon from Reason Magazine

From The Guardian :

We hear lots of concerned chatter these days – not least, here on this site – about peak oil, peak water, deforestation, resource depletion and the like, but a popular riposte offered by those doubting such concerns is something commonly referred to as the “Environmentalist’s Paradox”.

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L’enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et désirs

The road to hell is paved with not so good intentions.


From The Guardian :

Friends of the Earth urges end to ‘land grab’ for biofuels
Charity predicts more food shortages in Africa because of EU target to produce 10% of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2020.

European Union countries must drop their biofuels targets or else risk plunging more Africans into hunger and raising carbon emissions, according to Friends of the Earth (FoE).

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Hollister, California

Hollister is famous for several things – bikers, unattractive brand name clothing, and aseismic creep.

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Danielle Was Cool


Hurricanes cool the ocean by moving heat into the upper atmosphere, blocking sunlight, and by mixing up the warm surface layer with colder water underneath. The image below shows the path of Hurricane Danielle superimposed on the UNISYS SST anomaly map for September 1.

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

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After talking the economy down on a daily basis for six months, on Feb. 13, 2009 President Obama pushed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 through Congress, based on this promise. With the recovery plan, unemployment would stay below 8%. Without it, it would go up to 9%.

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More On The GISS / Had Crut Divergence

Since 1997/1998, GISS has been steadily diverging from Had Crut. I have been accused of “cherry picking” this date. In this article I will show that is not the case.

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The Freezing Point And The Dew Point – Part 2

Yesterday we looked at the difference between the freezing point and dew point (or frost point) of water. Please read that article first.

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Blame It On Bush

Unemployment has more than doubled since Harry Reid and the Democrats took over the US Senate four years ago, promising change.

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Hurricane Season Close To Average So Far

http://www.weatherstreet.com/hurricane/2010/Hurricane-Atlantic-2010.htm

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