Seventeen days after I posted this , Mathew Simmons is back on Bloomberg News with this update. Highlights: 1. He bumped up his earlier estimate of the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf from 70k barrels per day to 120k. (He’s been consistently ahead of the “official” estimates from Day One). And that unless the well is fused shut …
Given that cognitive scientists believe that up to 95% of our thinking processes are unconscious, with our 400 million year old lizard brain dominating our half million year old rational brain; given that the lizard brain has as its number one priority the perpetuation of the species (demonstrated in males by the power that the little head exercises over the …
Not only is the president not throwing a tantrum, the president is also not dressing up in Palin-esque chest waders over a haz-mat suit, but is, according to news actress Gretchen Carlson, wearing “fancy pants.”
I suspected something like this was going on all along… In other developments in what some people are considering to be earth’s first human caused extinction level event: 1. The US government has issued a new (soon to be revised) estimate for the amount of oil gushing out of the Macondo well head. Having uncritically accepted BP’s original estimate of …
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Okay, I don’t think its too soon to start really freakin out about the disaster unfolding in the Gulf right now. There have been rumors on the internets for at least a couple of weeks that the situation is a hell of a lot worse. Instead of just …
Dr. Seuss reaches out from the grave for his take on the BP‘s Oilmaggedon, as captured by this mention of his book, The Lorax, by the School Library Journal: Celebrate the Lorax Project Student Earth Day 03/09/2009 Long before saving the Earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss spoke about this issue through his book The Lorax (Random, 1971), which …
“Consider the [orchids], how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is cut down and cast into the fire, how much more shall he clothe …
