By 2050, say University of Texas urologists Tom Brikowski and Margaret Pearle, most Americans will live in areas considered high-risk zones for the painful deposits, caused when minerals crystallize into chunks too large leave the bladder.
Lead author of a new report from the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Program: Rising temperatures boost the probability of extreme weather that can "lead to the type of events we are seeing in the Midwest."
James Hansen, once again speaking truth to power.
Blogger A Siegel calls Drudge Report for (drumroll, please....) playing fast and loose with facts in service of fomenting denial re global warming. Sigh...
Few people can talk about global warming with the force and passion that writer Bill McKibben brings to the topic. Last year, as the public face of StepItUp2007.org, he helped spark a remarkably successful campaign. 350.org is this year's model.
Tireless blogger Joe Romm -- a high-level Clinton administration energy official now with the Center for American Progress -- is a go-to source of heavyweight analysis of news and issues relating to climate science, politics, and solutions.
Excellent and busy blog for climate policy wonks and politickers, with a detailed calendar of climate-related congressional hearings.
Grist's David Roberts: "People think tackling climate change means pain. If we can change enough minds about that, the rest of the arguments will be rendered moot. If we can't, all else is for naught."
World leaders are gathered at the UN for global warming summit, but President Bush is skipping the talks. The Bush admin still touts a voluntary approach to emissions caps. This has never worked (see http://urltea.com/1kjg and http://urltea.com/1kjh)
AP story: "the leaders of some 80 nations converge on the U.N. on Monday for a summit on the warming Earth and what to do about it." NRDC's David Doniger is there.
The host of the "web2.0 show," a popular podcast about emerging web technologies, wonders if the Internet industry can go "carbon neutral." (In general, I've found technologists to be very receptive to greening their business practices. )
From Green Mountain Energy -- a large retailer of cleaner electricity -- BeGreen has a lot of information about reducing your carbon "footprint." There's a guide to carbon-neutral gifts, and BeGreen is doing a video contest on MySpace.
Jon Lebkowsky blogs for WorldChanging, among many other things, and tipped me to this Whole Foods initiative -- for Earth Day, the company is presenting its customers with a whole slate of ideas for reducing one's carbon footprint. Cool.
McKibben talks with OnEarth about StepItUp 2007, his seat-of-the-pants campaign that's knitting together -- very quickly -- a mass movement of global warming warriors. A really interesting conversation.
"Within the next year or so, expect to see a growing number of alternative-fuel cars on the load: autos that run on a blend of ethanol and gasoline, hybrids that use diesel instead of gas, even cars powered by cooking oil from your pantry."
