Earthquake and disaster links...

...following upon the Japan quake/Tsunami event.  This information seems solid.  This link is to All Things Nuclear, and is under the shell of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The next link I find valuable is from the blog Disaster Wise, "Comments about technological history, system fractures, and human resilience from James R. Chiles."  He seems to take this seriously and responsibly.

The best ongoing coverage seems to be at CNN.  On this incident, Fox News seems to be shouting a little too much, and they have at least one producer who is off the reservation.  Repeatedly yesterday they led into or ended segments on the nuclear-plant crisis by showing film footage from the burning refinery.  Not kosher at all.

I'll say that insomnia sometimes pays:  I woke up around 3:00 on Friday morning, unable to sleep.  My custom is to turn on the Coast-to-Coast program on local news radio.  Already people were calling George Noury with seismic reports about an incident off Japan, and the network news coverage began right after.

Partial agreement in Japan leaves biodiversity status uncertain

But, at the very least, the question is raised, and is worth discussing.  Article is here.

Current Events

I've been meaning to post this sooner, but Dr. Masters had a nice summary and commentary about the current state of the climate change/anthropogenic global warming debate, here: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1187. The answer is that the numbers, cumulatively, do appear to show the medium-term trend of global warming. In the absence of good stats to the contrary, it's hard to say otherwise. At least the question is raised, although many more questions need to be asked.

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