Much Of US South Experiencing Extreme Drought – Let The Water Wars Begin
November 7, 2010 No Comment
Lake Travis (Austin, Texas), July 2009. Image credit: University of Nebraska at Lincoln , National Drought Center; Photo courtesy of Bridget Cameron, Texas Water Development Board. Large swaths of US southern states are experiencing severe drought impacts, concentrated in the Lower Mississippi River watershed, and extending east through parts of Florida. Portions of Texas, as pictured, also continue to be adversely impacted. Production of tobacco, peanuts, soy, and wheat have fallen in roughly a dozen states; and, cattle producers a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Rich Vail Fund Manager Hits Cyclist And Runs, Gets Off Because Charges Might "Jeopardize His Job"
November 7, 2010 No Comment
The rich are different from you and me; they get to hit and run, almost killing a cyclist, but get off without serious charges because it is hard to be money manager for Smith Barney if you have a record. District Attorney Mark Hurlbert is not charging Martin Joel Erzinger with a felony, because “Felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in Mr. Erzinger’s profession,” which is managing billions for rich people. Dr. Steven Milo, the victim, is not impressed. Mr. Erzinger struck me, fled and left me for dead on the highway,” Milo wrote. “Neither his financial prominence nor my financial situ… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …As we were leaving South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, CA yesterday we crossed the freeway overpass where a long-haired grungy-looking guy was standing waving an American flag and wearing one of those rubber Statue of Liberty green pointy visors.
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Image: Lophelia II 2010, NOAA OER and BOEMRE If BP was hoping that “out of sight, out of mind” would help memories of the Deepwater Horizon gulf oil spill disaster fade, news from an ongoing NOAA exploration of coral communities in the deep gulf sea floor could dash their hopes. The findings of a team led by Penn State Biologist Charles Fisher could also dash hopes that the large quantities of oil and chemicals released in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico left local flora and… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …My wife saw this item in the most recent Good Housekeeping Magazine: Let Us Be Thankful That we have something to be thankful for. That pumpkin pies are once more in fashion. That turkey is cheap enough for the poor man’s table. That the cranberry crop wasn’t ruined by the frosts. That the country is still quite safe in spite of the politicians. Good Housekeeping, November 1888 Some things never change.
Continue reading …Here We Go Again: Climate Taxes on the Table, Accompanied by Usual Media Slant
November 7, 2010 No CommentThey're back, they have their media water-carriers in place, and the Obama administration is smack dab in the middle of it. The United Nations is pushing for countries in the developed world to keep their “promise” to, in the worlds of Charles J. Hanley at the Associated Press,
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Dishearteningly unsurprising. This somewhat awkward phrase is, to my mind, the best description of the emotional and moral impact of Wikileak’s release of 400,000 classified US military documents. In the wake of the GOP “landslide” in the US midterm elections, most commentators have moved on from this all-too-troubling and familiar story. But their doing so only reinforces the basic problems that the release of the documents has revealed – an almost brazen disregard for reality and willingness to ignore the lessons of history for political expediency and economic and strategic gain. And Barack Obama’s post-election “move to the centre” and unwillingness to face the core systemic issues that…
Continue reading …I’ve argued for a long time that race-based caucuses shouldn’t even exist in 2010, but as long as they do, I don’t see anything wrong with a black conservative trying to get in: Congressman-elect Allen West announced on WOR’s Steve Malzberg Show that he will be a voice of reason and conservative values in the Congressional Black Caucus. Oh, to be a fly on the wall. There’s audio here . Boy is he gonna tick off the racial grievance crowd. I doubt they’ll even admit him. They’ll come up with some nonsensical reason to keep him out because the last thing they want are conservative values and reason in the Congressional Black Caucus.
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Stepping back briefly from the economic mission of his visit to India, President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, stopped by a local school and danced with the children. (Nov. 7)
Continue reading …NVIDIA promises ‘fastest DX11 GPU on the planet’ very, very soon (video)
November 7, 2010 No Comment
Nobody will be too shocked to hear NVIDIA expects its next flagship GPU to be the fastest that’s ever been, but few will have guessed it’d also be one of the company’s coolest and quietest. In the first public teasing of its next-gen graphics card (which is almost certain to bear the GeForce GTX 580 name tag), NVIDIA has revealed a new vapor chamber cooling system, which reminds us of Shuttle ‘s ICE CPU cooler — basically, water sealed within the chamber gets boiled by the hot elements (a copper plate in NVIDIA’s case), which forces it to transfer heat away to the bits that are being cooled by the fan, where it chills out and recycles itself back to the boiling plate. The end result, according to NVIDIA, is about seven decibels less vroom relative to the GTX 480, along with lower operational temperatures. Besides that, the company’s Tom Petersen also showed off an impressive tessellation demo and the first public display of Call of Duty: Black Ops gameplay, which was powered by this as yet unannounced GPU. Skip past the break to see it all on video. [Thanks, Vygantas ] Continue reading NVIDIA promises ‘fastest DX11 GPU on the planet’ very, very soon (video) NVIDIA promises ‘fastest DX11 GPU on the planet’ very, very soon (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Nov 2010 09:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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