Tipping Point? ...

Once summer had passed and temperatures had dropped low enough for ice to begin to regrow, 10% more ice than usual had vanished ...

So. Will there be one giant environmental tipping point (point of no return for mother earth) which is to come (or has already past) or are there many smaller chances to reverse or stave off destruction?

The Environmental Tipping Point - The restoration of the fish in the sanctuary ultimately spilled over to the rest of the island, restoring the fishing base and attracting diver tourism which in turn brings in fees to establish garbage management and other programs.

You tell me because I don't know and I'm not sure anyone does. But what we do know is that giant forces (the entire GOP apparatus, China's government, powerful corporations, etc.) are working against our survival. It's their survival also, but of course, being so powerful they assume they will survive and still be in power and plenty and what happens to the rest of the world's population is of no consequence (to them, at least).

Lording it over a dying planet seems to appeal to more than a few ...

Yesterday's QUOTES ...

... The fiscal problem the US faces is medicare, and medical care more broadly, not social security.

... The Chinese company included crude heparin squeezed from the intestines of slaughtered pigs processed in filthy kitchen factories that would make a backwoods meth lab look like an Intel clean room.

And John McCain could very well get away with it. He and the GOP plan to scare independent voters, Reagan Democrats, and the GOP sheeple one more time with fears of Al Qaeda streaming from Iraq to Kansas ...

Here’s the dirt on Arizona power plants, March 17th, 2008 by Ed Taylor

Arizona power plants are getting dirtier rather than cleaner, at least when it comes to pollution tied to global warming, according to the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project.

Arizona had one of the biggest one-year increases in greenhouse gas emissions from 2006 to 2007, the organization said Monday.The top 10 states in increases of carbon dioxide were Arizona, Georgia, Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Virginia and North Carolina.



That’s a lot of things for such a smart man [Obama] not to know. If I didn’t know any better, I might think he’d say anything to win.

Obama and his supporters are deliberately spreading misinformation regarding the timing sanctions against both Florida and Michigan. Much of the media is parroting their press releases without referring to the actual DNC Delegate Selection Rules for 2008. [...] Of the recent solutions being proposed the most disturbing and offensive is that the delegates of these States be split 50/50. Although political operatives get their VIP passes to the convention, the will of the voters is totally ignored. A 50/50 split would be assigning votes to Florida and Michigan Democrats. Do not refer to it as anything less.
... Obama partisan Kos of dailyKos praised an arbitrary assignment of votes to Florida voters. Of course, by now it's clear, fairness only applies to what Kos wants. The rest of us voters don't count. Sounds very Republican to me ...

A message of HOPE?

A commenter to this post on Talking Points Memo:

I do think energy is one of Obama's weakest policy areas - his stance on nuclear power, for example, is very disappointing. I suppose he has to take a centrist position so he doesn't appear too radical.

I just hope he acts a little more green once he gets into office.

Posted by mjmcclure
February 29, 2008 4:00 PM | Reply | Permalink

So we have to HOPE that Obama, if the nominee, and if elected President, actually has a reasonably intellligent and environmentally sound approach to energy AND that he's just hiding his real ideas from the Republicans who aren't going to vote for him anyway?

Now I'm starting to understand what this message of HOPE means ...

Something the oil companies don't want ... at least not yet.

Here's an article about a company that aims to 'coax' fuel from bacteria.

To do this, the company is employing tools from the field of synthetic biology to modify the genetic pathways that bacteria, plants, and animals use to make fatty acids, one of the main ways that organisms store energy. Fatty acids are chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms strung together in a particular arrangement, with a carboxylic acid group made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen attached at one end. Take away the acid, and you're left with a hydrocarbon that can be made into fuel.