Links for 11/20/13

In Dry Times, California Turns to Cloud Seeding « Bay Nature

Climate change? Try catastrophic climate breakdown | Environment | The Guardian

Greenhouse gas emissions hit highest level ever

Tornado hits U.S. nuclear facility – Uranium enrichment building damaged — Parts of cooling towers destroyed — Alert declared for ‘emergency condition’ (photos)

A Study in Single-Fins | Surfer Magazine

Look who’s eating your plastic now: A whole unprecedented ecosystem | Grist

Send a Message to the UN: Haiyan is a Wake-Up Call – 350

‘Nature Is Not for Sale’ Forum Challenges Corporate Push to Financialize the World | Common Dreams

What if Mother Nature had rights? She does in Ecuador – The Globe and Mail

Quest for Carbon Neutral Beer | Domestic Fuel

Climate-changing methane ‘rapidly destabilizing’ off East Coast, study finds – U.S. News

Gods and Gifts

Links for 11/12/13

Report on climate change depicts a planet in peril – latimes.com

Arctic News: Methane Levels going through the Roof

We Have the Renewable Energy We Need to Power the World—So What’s Stopping Us? | Alternet

Philippines negotiator makes emotional plea at Doha climate talks – video | Environment | theguardian.com

“It’s time to stop this madness” – Philippines plea at UN climate talks

Last Paradise Film: The World’s Greatest Story of Adventure and Innovation

Billionaire blocks access to public beach in California – Boing Boing

Inhabitat

Why dengue and yellow fever could be coming to a city near you | Grist

Thor Heyerdahl, on Ocean Pollution, 1970 – YouTube

Jellyfish taking over oceans, experts warn – CNN.com

Tibet Almond Stick – Refresh old strings on guitars – Boing Boing

Stolen Seas

Links for 10/1/13

Climate change and the point of no return

Ikea selling solar panels

Gray whale dies bringing us a message — with stomach full of plastic trash

Plastic Nest and Net Patrol on Kauai | Surfrider Foundation

Road trip begins for world’s largest film camera

Spy Into Mid-Century Balboa Highlands Tract Houses as They Become Transparent – Video Interlude – Curbed LA

Monsoons and flooding in India, Typhoon Usagi nails Philippines, Taiwan and China, plus Colorado updates – Faun Kime

Climate change: how hot will it get in my lifetime?

Tepco doesn’t measure radiation accumulated on the bottom of the sea | Fukushima Diary

Cooking Up The Planet: Climate Change Is Real and We Are The Cause

Yanks Deep In Peru For World Longboard Champs

Links for 9/19/13

Stop Dirty Energy Development in Santa Barbara! | 350.org Campaigns

Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

NHK: Attempts to stop Fukushima contamination flowing into ocean have failed — Japan Nuclear Expert: “Most likely flowing fairly quickly into sea” from nearby Reactor No. 2

The Most Controversial Chart in History, Explained | Mother Jones

vintage everyday: Beautiful Women’s Swimwear Fashion in the 1950’s

Forget zombies; we should be fighting jellyfish | Grist

Climate change to have double impact – study | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com

Wildlife vulnerable to climate change teeters on edge of extinction

Links for 9/16/13

A tank area dam overflowed due to the Typhoon rain | Fukushima Diary

LG Made a Retro Wood-Panelled LED TV with Knobs and Everything

Molasses spill in Hawaii destroys ocean habitats, draws sharks to area where humans surf and swim – Boing Boing

Hawaiian Molasses Spill: Cleanup As Slow As : Discovery News

Arctic Ocean Acidification – Faun Kime

Finding the Ocean Inside of a Giant Opal

Plastic Paradise – The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Surfrider Foundation

Google’s lobbyists go big on climate change denial, raise money for Inhofe & Competitive Enterprise Insitute – Boing Boing

vintage everyday: The Who’s Pete Townshend on a skateboard, c. 1960s

vintage everyday: Old Photos of Life with Beach Bums at San Onofre, Calif., 1950

Links for 9/13/13

LA city hall orders destruction of “bamboo masterpiece” treehouse – Boing Boing

Frogs to Be Wiped out by 2033? Study Predicts Imminent End of Amphibians

The Open Letter | The Climate Change Wake-Up Call

Global Warming: United Nations Climate Report Proves Earth Is Suffering | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Protect nature for world economic security, warns UN biodiversity chief | Environment | The Guardian

Save the Hong Kong Pink Dolphins

Two Energy Futures

Massive Molasses Spill Devastates Honolulu Marine Life : The Two-Way : NPR

Links for 9/2/13

Biologists worried by migratory birds’ starvation, seen as tied to climate change – The Washington Post

500 fires rage across Sumatra

Fukushima radiation levels 18 times higher than previously thought

Study: We’re Headed To 11°F Warming And Even 7°F Requires ‘Nearly Quadrupling The Current Rate Of Decarbonisation’ | ThinkProgress

At the Very Least, Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over | Hawaii Is Hot

LOST LOS ANGELES – The Beaches 1950 – YouTube

Scientists Discover A New Species Of ‘Walking’ Shark – Business Insider

It Could Have All Gone So Differently | Preservation Sound