Today seems to be the right day for publication of another synthesis of what has been available online in the newspapers this week.
For those interested in an even better review, covering the recent times and looking at different issues, I would recommend this post from Trinifar. Impressive but true.
I was astonished to discover three significant [...]
Archive for October, 2007
A conjunction of factors
Posted in climate change, environment, global warming, peak oil, population, science, technology on October 26, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Basic instincts
Posted in consumption, environment, tagged Amazon, American dream, consumption, destruction, environment, Rainforest on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We are just another animal species, unfortunately given the ability to master fire and technique. I write unfortunately, because it is this gift that is going to cost us our disappearance. And not satisfied enough to put an end to our short period of existence on this world, we will also bring with us to [...]
IPCC and population growth
Posted in IPCC, climate change, environment, global warming, population, science, technology on October 12, 2007 | 26 Comments »
In the context of a series of conferences organized by the department of Industrial Ecology at NTNU, Norway, we had the honor and pleasure to welcome Mr. Leo Meyer on the 2nd of October, for a speech on the work of the working group III of the IPCC in its 4th assessment report. Mr. Meyer [...]
A lack of worldwide mobilization
Posted in motivations, science, technology, tagged france, idealism, impacts, research, science, strikes on October 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have a small dream.
I believe that the scientific community is less interested than the political one, meaning corrupted, taken in a broad sense. I mean, scientists usually work for knowledge in itself; for the purpose of serving science and helping the society as whole to develop. Some objections to this idea can be expressed [...]
