Getting ready to talk about #aaas09 at Seattle-area #scijourn event. Recap and what got overlooked, plus call for #aaas2010 panels
http://tinyurl.com/bb983z - Pielke keeps Gore honest on climate and disasters, chastises #aaas09 crowd
#aaas09 - Watching hypnotic animations... modeling effluent flow in and around aquaculture pens.
#aaas09 - "We are plotting the nonviolent overthrow of bad engineering." - Amory Lovins
#aaas09 - "Only 13% of fuel energy you put in your car goes toward tractive load" - Amory Lovins is in full-stride on efficiency and profit.
#aaas09 - Thinking about the difference between precision and control.
#aaas09 - Stephan Lovgren accepting award for online piece - "...report on giant dog-eating fish..."
#aaas09 - "Know what drugs your editors are taking" - John Carrey - accepting excellence in science writing for award
#aaas09 - "Has the IPCC considered meeting sooner than every four or five years. Surely we can't wait that long for another report?" -Leahy
#aaas09 - "Payback" times for replacing tropical forests with biofuel crops like corn, soy, cassava - 300 to 1500 years. - Holly Gibbs
#aaas09 - where is the ocean acidification research?
#aaas09 - A compound from a marine sponge resensitizes drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria to current antibiotics
#aaas09 - Lisa Plano on drug-resistant staph - just when you thought it was safe to go back to the beach.
#aaas09. "We refuse to write ever more refined obituaries for this planet" - Nancy Knowlton.