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'Climate hacking' would be easy, that doesn't mean we should do it
2015-01-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Some people might argue that the greatest moral challenge of our time is serious enough to justify deliberately tampering with our climate to stave off the damaging effects of global warming. Geoengineering, or climate hacking, to use its more emotive nickname, is a direct intervention in the natural environments of our planet, including our atmosphere, seas and oceans. It has been suggested that geoengineering might buy us time to prevent warming above 2C, and that we should look at it seriously...
Global debt: How worried should we be?
2014-12-19 01:10:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How worried should we be?
Experts Forecast the End of Privacy as We Know It
2014-12-18 20:48:33| TechNewsWorld
Privacy's future appears muddy at best, judging from a survey released Thursday by the Pew Research Center and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center. More than 2,500 Internet experts and analysts were narrowly divided on whether policy makers and technology innovators would create a secure, popularly accepted and trusted privacy-rights infrastructure by 2025.
New car sales grow across state, nation: Are we better off?
2014-12-16 16:27:39| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Using new vehicle registrations and other relative data as a measuring stick, the economy appears to be on the mend in Pennsylvania and nationally. There were 682,697 new vehicle registrations in Pennsylvania in 2007, just as the Great Recession started to take shape, according to data PennLive obtained from the Pennsylvania Automotive Association.
This doomed Alaskan village shows just how unprepared we are for climate change
2014-12-15 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: It`s a Wednesday morning in late August, the first day of classes at the Shishmaref School. The doors of the pale blue building haven`t opened yet, and the new principal is hurriedly buttering toast in the kitchen for the students breakfasts. Teachers are scrambling to make last-minute adjustments to their classrooms, while anxious kids, ranging from pre-K students through high schoolers, wait on the porch, their jackets zipped against the chill of the early-morning air. It`s all so incredibly normal,...
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