Podcast: Play in new window | Download Hours after pictures like the one at right began appearing on the Internet, showing the scope of the Exxon pipeline oil spill in the town of Mayflower, Arkansas, the Federal Aviation Administration clamped a no-fly zone over the town. The FAA order is to be in effect “until [...]
Pollution
The China Syndrome Worsens
July 30, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download China has long been the secret envy of American industrialists. Imagine being able to do whatever you want — build any factory anywhere, pay people whatever the hell you feel like laying them, dump your waste wherever the hell you feel like dumping it — all with no [...]
Thunderstorms on Steroids Punching Holes in Ozone
July 27, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Scientists at Harvard University have discovered yet another unexpected — not to mention unintended — consequence of climate change. Thunderstorms on steroids — supercharged by the increased heat energy trapped in the atmosphere — are, as it were, punching massive holes in the ozone layer. The implications for [...]
USGS: World on Really Bad Acid Trip
February 29, 2012
![It has become a fad to argue about the effect of industrial smokestacks on changing climate. But that is far from all they do, as the USGS has just reminded us. (Photo by Eric Schmuttenmaer [akeg] /Flickr)](http://www.dailyimpact.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/air-pollution.jpg)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The US Geological Survey has been getting things right since at least the 1930s, when it correctly identified the Dust Bowl — while it was occurring — as a human-caused, not natural, event. Few people recognized the implications at the time, few know them today, and not many [...]
China Government Report: Brace for Impact
January 20, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download While the American president doesn’t discuss it, and the candidates vying to replace him swear it doesn’t exist, scientists working for, and under the supervision of, the government of China are warning their people in an official report that “China faces extremely grim ecological and environmental conditions under [...]
“One Simple Trick” for Global Warming
January 17, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download If you’re on the Internet — and of course you are — the ads are all around you: “One simple trick” for losing belly fat; “one weird trick” drops your car insurance costs to near zero; “housewife discovers simple trick for white teeth;” and on, and on. If [...]
Global Warming’s Evil Twin
August 23, 2011
Podcast: Play in new window | Download To the extent that we talk, think or do anything about the threat of the industrial age’s rampant and accelerating pollution of air, water and land, we focus these days on climate change. It is a serious effect (serious enough to induce blindness and deafness in nine out [...]
Losing the War on Pond Scum
August 8, 2011
Podcast: Play in new window | Download A legacy of industrial agriculture, energized by climate change, a continent-sized explosion of toxic algae blooms is besieging the freshwater lakes of North America, sickening people, killing animals and wrecking tourist- and recreation-based local economies. Although each eruption is big news in local papers, the unprecedented extent and [...]
Industrial Food: Hazardous to your Species
April 1, 2011
It wasn’t a scientific study, just an exercise to test methods for a possible future study, yet its findings were so stunning and conclusive they have become the subject of widespread discussion and a major industrial damage-control effort. The sample, by common research standards, was infinitesimally small: five families, comprising ten adults and ten children. [...]
Ohio Lake “Dying”: Governor Applies Lipstick
January 31, 2011
The government of the great state of Ohio demonstrated last week, with laser-like precision, exactly why we do not have a chance of avoiding the multiple catastrophes bearing down on our supplies of food, energy and water. In unveiling what was universally described as a “plan” to deal with one of the state’s biggest pollution [...]
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