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Climate-Changing Dirt | Miller-McCune Online Magazine

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Could soil engineered specifically to maximize carbon storage dampen some effects of climate change? Very possibly, according to the scientists featured in this article.

Why is it we hear so little about this research in the mainstream media? Miller-McCune and New Scientist magazines/websites both tend to excite me with research about new possibilities to address our world’s most vexing problems, while at the same time creating frustration about my lack of time to vet those possibilities. I yearn for a team of personal science fact-checkers.

Vortex: The Perfect Word Choice

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Listening to Scott Simon this morning on NPR’s Weekend Edition brought a warm glow — of admiration and empathy.

The admiration is for the use of the perfect term to describe his situation: Technology Vortex. I chuckled at the real-life examples familiar to so many of us. Simon dutifully attributes coining of the term to the philosopher Jonathon Schorr, but although I first read it elsewhere, it will inevitably be Scott Simon’s version I remember. “Technology Vortex is an invisible whirling mass that hovers over some of us to suck the vitality out of our technological devices.”

The empathy? Well, let’s just say I had no difficulty understanding or identifying with many of the examples.

In case you missed it, it’s well worth the three-minute listen or 30-second read.

A Special Report on Climate Change and the Carbon Economy

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The December 5th issue of The Economist magazine contains a 16-page special report on climate change. In advance of next week’s opening of the Copenhagen conference, aka Cop15, or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), the special report and accompanying audio/video enhancements are well worth picking up.

 

I often have a hard time telling what’s available to everyone and what’s not with my premium content subscriptions, but hopefully the sponsors and underwriters for this special report want to encourage sharing (cookies must be enabled):

 

Economist, December 5 special report

 

Audio introduction:
The Carbon Economy: Interview with Emma Duncan, deputy editor