Review: The Vanishing of a Species? A Look at Modern Man’s Predicament by a Geologist (Hardcover)

Posthumous Reflections of Extraordinary Value November 30, 2009 Peter Gretener QUOTES: “The system has had it.” “Environmental science–or engineering–is at best a misnomer and at worst a fraud.” This author, like the author of The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with “Climate Change” Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in …

Journal: ClimateGate Meets Yamal Divergence

Phi Beta Iota: ClimateGate has outraged us for two reasons–first, the lack of integrity among the scientists and the selected United Nations officials concerned; and second, the naivete, ignorance, or corruption of government officials  all too eager to create a new Global Warming Complex that profits from carbon trades (another form of phantom wealth) while …

Search: taoism & co-intelligence

When you do not find results for a particular search term, please consider breaking up the search (e.g. tao by itself, co-intelligence by itself), and also use the Review menu (e.g. Culture, Research (92); (135);  DemocracyIntelligence (Collective & Quantum) (77);  Intelligence (Wealth of Networks) (36); Philosophy (50); Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution (134). The key concept …

Journal: Conflict Over Resources–Over the next 20 years, demand for food and energy will rise by half

The Madagascar model Nov 13th 2009 From The World in 2010 print edition By John Parker Conflicts over natural resources will grow In the world’s earliest written legal code, dating from 1790BC, Hammurabi, the king of Babylon, laid down rules governing the maintenance of irrigation systems and the amount of water people could take from …

Worth a Look: Google Does Data Not Thinking

Finding the laws that govern us 11/17/2009 09:05:00 AM Starting today, we’re enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar. You can find these opinions by searching for cases (like Planned Parenthood v. Casey), or by topics (like desegregation) …