RT @may_gun: Just as they punish folks who were already conserving H2O, they've decided to punish those who've conserved energy. http://www.scpr.org/news...
There is a perception of great resistance to the pope in his own church. This is largely the product of noise. Extremists get more press coverage than blander types, and some Catholic bloggers have suggested that the pope is not truly Catholic. They are right to be in a panic. They are not used to having a pope who is a Christian. They call... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
RT @ericholthaus: Wow. Amid record-breaking heat, CA's snowpack is now just 6% of normal. Missing ~4,500,000,000,000 gal of water. http://t.co/Blj4iiutSi
RT @zoeschlanger: Head of the federal agency that investigates accidents at chemical plants has resigned amid mismanagement accusation http://www.scientificamerican.com/article...
Although winter warming has been occurring across the western United States for decades, it has only permitted mountain pine beetle outbreaks in regions where winters historically killed more than 50 percent of the beetles — primarily in the Middle Rockies (Idaho, Montana and Wyoming), the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon and northern Colorado. In... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
AT&T today launched its gigabit fiber Internet service in parts of Cupertino, California, but the price isn’t as good as it is in cities where AT&T faces competition from Google Fiber. Google Fiber and AT&T’s U-verse with GigaPower compete head-to-head in Kansas City and Austin. In those cities, AT&T matches Google’s $70-per-month price for... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
Not every species will manage to adapt. But the larger and healthier and more diverse our bird populations are, the greater the chances that many species will survive, even thrive. To prevent extinctions in the future, it’s not enough to curb our carbon emissions. We also have to keep a whole lot of wild birds alive right now. We need to combat... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...