Gordon's Notes

My prediction for 2013 - the American Right will effectively drop Climate Change Denialism by April of 2013. They'll never admit it of c...

This Telegraph article is primarily about a Hansen lecture on humanity's failure to think rationally about climate change, but I found t...

In November of 2001 British Telecomunications published a white paper prepared by two futurists - Ian Pearson and Ian Neild. It's a bit ...

FuturePundit: 2005 Seen As Oil Supply Tipping Point : Commentary in Nature: Can economy bear what oil prices have in store? Stop wranglin...

My, oh, my, it's still a whitewater world . Ezra Klein tells us ... America’s top export in 2011 is refined fuel ... ... UC San Die...

"With great power comes great responsibility." Gingrich's inner geek smiled at that one. Certainly they had the power. The Dem...

The Keystone Pipeline XL (Keystone Expansion) is a part of  a multi-billion dollar project to "transport synthetic crude oil and dilut...

It was always a long shot, but 2010 was when we knew that plan A for greenhouse gas management had failed. Plan A was Europe, China and the ...

It's not yet freely available online, but the Scientific American Origins issue has a nice short summary of the origins of bovine spong...

I don’t fly that much these days – maybe 10 flights a year. Yesterday I took one of my longer flights – from Minneapolis to San Francisco. O...

What if we paid the CEO of Honda and four of his picks $1 billion to take over GM ? Just wondering. Honda knows its customers very well ... ...

The infamous green shoots of economic recovery are dust now, but I feel twinges of optimism about climate change. A few weeks ago I wrote ...

We are not what we were 20,000 years ago . We are not the people of 2,000 years past. Hell, we’re not even the people I was born to . We...

I'm comfortable with my Peak Oil call of Aug 2008 . Of course I didn't mean peak production, but rather that going forward the dema...