PennEnvironment http://bit.ly/jqEeIa [From Executive Summary] Hydraulic fracturing with horizontal drilling – a form of natural gas extraction rapidly spreading across Pennsylvania – poses serious potential for harm to our environment and our health. Gas companies are injecting water, sand and chemicals at high pressures deep beneath the earth, fracturing the underground Marcellus Shale rock formation … Continue reading »
Posted on May 6, 2011 …
Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene
Working Group Commissioned by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences http://www-ramanathan.ucsd.edu/files/PASGlacier.pdf [NY Times] Climate change is shrinking the world’s mountain glaciers, whose retreat creates new risks for humans and sensitive ecosystems alike, warns a new report commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church. “The widespread loss of ice and snow in the world’s mountain glaciers is some … Continue reading »
Transportation Opportunities Act
Draft One: http://thehill.com/images/stories/blogs/flooraction/Jan2011/draftdot.pdf Draft Two: http://op.bna.com/der.nsf/id/rtar-8gbnel/$File/administration+surface+transport+reauth+section-by-section.pdf [UPI.com story:]The Obama administration is considering a plan that would require the study and execution of a plan to tax U.S. drivers based on the amount of miles they drive. The plan is included in the administration’s Transportation Opportunities Act and follows a Congressional Budget Office report backing the … Continue reading »
2 Papers by Berkeley Lab Scientists: Undersea Methane Releases May Overwhelm Arctic Ocean’s Ability to Absorb GHGs
“Marine Methane Cycle Simulations for the Period of Early Global Warming,” Journal of Geophysical Research (Jan. 28, 2011) / by Scott Elliott, Mathew Maltrud,Matthew Reagan,George Moridis and Philip Cameron‐Smith via Lawrence Berkeley Lab: http://esdtools.lbl.gov/info/hydrate-publications/climate/Elliott_JGRB_2011.pdf “Geochemistry of Clathrate-Derived Methane in Arctic Ocean Waters,” Geophysical Research Letters (June 26, 2010) / by Scott Elliott, Matthew Reagan, George … Continue reading »
