Peak Oil
The Dinner Table
Ethanol is alcohol, it’s the stuff that gives booze its kick. It’s the stuff that is becoming popular as a gasoline additive. People are invited to use gasahol as a virtuous move. Ethanol is made from things which are fermentable. Unhappily, those things are usually foodstuffs.
Because of the worldwide exhaustion of maize [...]

What, you may ask, is the Permian Extinction, and why should you know about it? The Permian Extinction, also known as the Permian-Triassic Extinction, was the most catastrophic extinction event in the geologic history of planet Earth, and one in which recent discoveries have implicated global warming as one of the factors involved. The present [...]

The climate change issue is suffering growing pains in the form of a vigorous debate between Ph.Ds over whether we have a bit of time (perhaps 20 years) in which to get our ducks properly in a row, or whether we’ve run out of time and best get it done yesterday. We have previously reported [...]

The creek tumbles down misty canyons of the coast range, winding its way to the sea. It passes through mossy corridors of maple and cedar, roaring over boulders, sliding across down timber, then pouring into green pools that are smooth as glass. My wife and I were exploring an area where an old campground formerly [...]