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December 9, 2010

What’s 2 Degrees Celsius?

Press release from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): 12/09/2010 Talk at Cancun is of 2 degrees Celsius – even 1.5 degrees would have effects lasting centuries Even global warming of just...

Demonstrations / Intellectuals / Layoffs / Man-made Disaster

October 26, 2010

More on SUNY Albany

For more info on the SUNY Albany Humanities fight go to the SUNY UNDER SIEGE site.

Agitprop / Capitalism / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Gulf Disaster / Man-made Disaster

August 27, 2010

Bacteria, BP & Big Bucks

Well, Cloclo’s Kali Yug will have to wait until tomorrow, despite your baited breath, gentle readers, but the following seems important enough to disrupt the summer Beach Reading tales. Nicole — who is off...

Environment / Fossil fuel / Gulf Disaster / Man-made Disaster / Oceans / Unnatural Disaster

August 26, 2010

The Gulf Stands Corexit

Interrupting the Pélieu Beach Novel for a day to bring you some news from developments in the Gulf region. It looks more and more as if the US Government and BP work hand in...

Art / Art Exhibition / Benefit Auction / Benefit Reading / Man-made Disaster / Performances / Poetry

July 22, 2010

Imagine it Thick / in Your Own Hair

HEIDE HATRY Imagine It Thick In Your Own Hair A benefit exhibition and silent auction of work by numerous artists for victims of the oil spill Through August 1, 2010 Reception and Silent Auction...

Books / Independent Publishers / Language / Man-made Disaster / Poetry / Uncategorized

July 21, 2010

Some Summer Noticings

Catching up with accumulated magazines, webpages & sundry readings, here are a few gleanings: — Good analysis of the BP-disaster & its (very overlooked connections with similar oil-disaster brought about by the naked greed...

Environment / Man-made Disaster / Oceans

July 19, 2010

Seepage Detected near BP’s Deepwater Well

Fears re damaged seabed and leaks — as described in my posts of June 15th & July 8th — seem to be coming true. Admiral Thad Allen, the National Incident Commander of the Deepwater...

Environment / Man-made Disaster / Oceans / Unnatural Disaster

July 9, 2010

Jamais Deux sans Trois: Oil Dispersal Projection

The ocean model data used for calculating the particle dispersal were obtained from a simulation conducted with the Ocean General Circulation Mode for the Earth Simulator (OFES) forced by QuikSCAT winds. This research was...

Environment / Fossil fuel / Man-made Disaster / Unnatural Disaster

July 8, 2010

Gulf Of Mexico Sea Floor Fractured Beyond Repair

On 15 June I posted on how the well bore structure of the BP hell-machine is “compromised” down-hole and how this means that the whole floor of the Gulf of Mexico is endangered. Here...

Environment / Fossil fuel / Man-made Disaster / Uncategorized

June 15, 2010

Gulf Oil Disaster: Well Bore Structure Compromised "Down Hole".

Friends alerted me to the following analysis of the oil leak, which seems somewhat more professionally & technically savvy (& way scarier) than anything else I’ve read. The conclusion the author comes to after...