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Umbra on boiling water for tea

Dear Umbra, My roommates seem to be constantly boiling water for tea. We’ve got a gas stove, a microwave, and an electric teakettle. However, we don’t know which option is […]

An illustrated taxonomy

Via Crooked Timber, a short academic paper on standard denier tactics for fighting regulations of all sorts: "The Denialists' Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts" (PDF).

While it concentrates mostly on consumer protections, it does include some global warming examples, and most of it applicable to the global weirding fight.

Unlike, say, the story of Noah’s Ark

Joining a brain trust that boasts such members Stone Age Senator James Inhofe and TV game show host Pat Sajak, conservative Christian Reverend Jerry Falwell has spoken out on global […]

New Zealand fishermen nab largest squid in the history of the world

Its eyes are the size of dinner plates; its tentacles, large enough to fashion tractor wheel-sized calamari rings. It stretches longer than a semi-truck, weighs more than a Harley, and glides effortlessly throughout the darkest depths of the Antarctic waters, using razor sharp hooks to gobble up the unlucky that fall into its path.

This is not the tale of a fabled sea monster or an excerpt from a Herman Melville classic. This is the true story of a colossal catch netted by New Zealand fishermen earlier this month. It took two hours to land what is presumably the largest and only mature male specimen of a colossal squid -- a rare find indeed.

Kedzie Press: An eco-friendly publishing house

There is an interesting article on Mediabistro.com about Kedzie Press, a small publishing house that publishes environmental titles, as well as other genres, using environmentally friendly manufacturing practices.

Some details emerge

More on the TXU deal from the NYT: Matt Wald says the effect on other proposed coal plants is uncertain (in the absence of a price on carbon, that is), […]

Things are getting strange up in Hollywood

You couldn’t ask for a more illustrative Sign of the Times: rather than gift bags full of swag, this year’s Oscar presenters will be getting … carbon offsets. Recently the […]

Video of green moments at Oscars

ThinkProgress has a video montage of all the Gore-y moments at tonight’s Oscars ceremony.

Melissa Etheridge’s speech

From Melissa Etheridge’s acceptance speech for "I Need to Wake Up": … Mostly I have to thank Al Gore … for inspiring me … for showing that caring about the […]

Inspirational

After the announcement that An Inconvenient Truth had won for Best Documentary, director Davis Guggenheim made his way to the stage along with Al Gore, Laurie David, and others amidst […]