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The wave energy of the future, Part I

December 21, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
energy, FERC, hydrokinetic, wave, whales

The Energy Bill touches all of us, even the fish, as wave and tidal power struggle to move from experiment to reliable source. The bill authorizes funding for R&D, including the creation of national demonstration centers. Whether or not that...

There's so much more to dump!

November 9, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
Australia, nitrogen, urea, wobbegong

It's not just iron anymore, oh no, now it's urea. You may know urea from it's role in helping sharks avoid dehydration, or possibly because it's in industrial fertilizers. Yes, we know urea can make plants grow and this is...

Fe fi ho hum

November 5, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
cephalopodcast, iron fertilization, oceanbloggers, Planktos

Hooray, hooray, it's another Carnival of the Blue today, hosted by the merry duke of Cephalopodcast. I'm particularly pleased that today's Carnival introduces me to the Oyster's Garter, where Miriam Goldstein has already written much of the post I keeping...

Invisible Ships

October 17, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
IMO, shipping

Talking about global warming can gin up the finger-pointing faster than you can say "tar sands." Who's really to blame, and if the finger points at you, well, isn't there someone out there who's worse than you? Let's go find...

Congratulations, IPCC!

October 12, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
bestavailablescience, IPCC, nobelprize, tenure

Let's raise a glass to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shares today's Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Not to slight Al in any way, but I wanted to give a special thanks to the thousands of scientists...

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Kate Wing
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Kate Wing was a senior ocean-policy analyst at NRDC between 2000 and 2008. She's now joined...
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