Category Archives: Environment / Weather

American Red Cross: International Response Fund

By thecodepounder | Published January 13, 2010

Is accepting donations to help victims of the Hatian earthquake.

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Dr. Kiki on global warming, skepticism, reason and science

By thecodepounder | Published February 17, 2009

Dr. Kirsten Sanford (one of the Skeptologists, for those of you who may be interested in seeing more critical thinking, science and reason on TV), writing at her blog, The Bird’s Brain, A Response to Cali’s Weekend Twitter Circus:
I spend my time paying attention to as much of the science media as I can, and [...]

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Nate Silver takes on George F. Will

By thecodepounder | Published February 16, 2009

FiveThirtyEight.com’s Nate Silver, George F. Will Takes on Science, Loses Credibility:
And yet, according to George F. Will, many scientists were convinced in the 1970s that global cooling was a significant threat to the planet. And if those scientists were so wrong before, why should we trust them when they say that global warming is a [...]

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Erin Brockovich arrives in Tennessee to save the day, whoopie!

By thecodepounder | Published January 9, 2009

Associated Press:
Environmental advocate Erin Brockovich arrived Thursday with a New York City legal team at the billion-gallon coal sludge disaster in Tennessee, and a class-action lawsuit seems almost certain.
Oh good. Now everything will be made perfect (just like in the movies), right?

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Wow: rare snowfall hits New Orleans, Gulf Coast

By thecodepounder | Published December 11, 2008

As usual, most everything shut down… But hey, they don’t get snow very often.
I grew up in South Louisiana.  In seventeen (17) years, I saw snow one time. Mind you, I’m not talking about snow you can build a snowman with.  I’m not talking about snow that closes schools.  I’m not even talking about snow [...]

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Cold front could postpone shuttle Endeavour’s launch

By thecodepounder | Published November 11, 2008

Associated Press:
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An approaching cold front could thwart NASA’s plans to launch space shuttle Endeavour on Friday on a flight to the international space station.

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New Orleans three years later

By thecodepounder | Published August 29, 2008

New Orleans will never be the same, but is recovering:
The Brookings Institution and Greater New Orleans Data Center reported this month that the city has recovered 72 percent of its pre-Katrina households, nearly 90 percent of sales tax revenues, 86 percent of jobs and 76 percent of all previous public and private school students.
One of [...]

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Hurricane Katrina +3

By thecodepounder | Published August 29, 2008

Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana on this date in 2005.

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TVA asks to renew build permits for two nuclear reactors

By thecodepounder | Published August 28, 2008

The Tennessee Valley Authority has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to renew construction permits for two unfinished nuclear reactors, and has budgeted $10 million to study what would be involved in completing the construction.

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Electric car enthusiasts echo computer enthusiasts of a generation ago

By thecodepounder | Published August 19, 2008

FoxNews.com has the story of an electric car club, the Fox Valley Electric Auto Association, that meets monthly in Naperville, Illinois. Interesting to me is how much the electric car enthusiasts sound like the computer enthusiasts of the 1970s:
“We came to the conclusion a long time ago the car companies weren’t going to make [...]

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Texas approves $5B wind-power project

By thecodepounder | Published July 21, 2008

Bravo!  Texas regulators have approved a $4.93 billion wind-power transmission project.
Texas is already the largest producer of wind-power among U.S. states, but then again, Texas is the only state that has its own power grid (other states fall under the “national power grid” which means they are under the thumb of the Federal Energy Regulatory [...]

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The Tunguska Event 100 years later

By thecodepounder | Published June 30, 2008

100 years ago today, the Tunguska Event occurred.

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