Re: One more Re: Denial * 2: Climate Change and Economic

2007-10-27 Thread Malcolm McCallum
In revolutionary times no one could imagine life without whale oil for their lamps. By the 1800s no one could imagine heat without wood and coal to heat their home, to run steam locomotives, and steam ships, and the horse was a staple mode of travel. By the mid-1900s coal slowly left the home

There isn't enough waste

2007-10-27 Thread Robert Fireovid
I am a nationwide expert on bioenergy research, and I can say truthfully that there is no way that fuels derived from manures and other forms of waste, indeed from all types of biomass can come close to replacing (in a sustainable manner) all of the fossil fuels we use. The volumes of

GRADUATE STUDENT POSITION IN ECOLOGY

2007-10-27 Thread Brian Wilsey
Location: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa in collaboration with Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory (USDA-ARS), Temple, Texas. Position description - the student will join an NSF-funded project testing how species diversity and plant-plant interactions might differ between native

Desert Tortoise Monitoring

2007-10-27 Thread Chris Warner
In cooperation with the U.S. Fish Wildlife Service and other federal and state agencies, the Great Basin Institute is recruiting field technicians and support staff to help implement the 2008 Desert Tortoise Line Distance Sampling (LDS) Monitoring program. The desert tortoise (Gopherus