Sentences with phrase «by dot earth»

Here are earlier speeches — by Mr. Obama on energy and Mr. McCain on climate, annotated by Dot Earth contributors.

Julie Scelfo, who was aided by Dot Earth readers a year ago in her exploration of low - energy lighting, is now writing a regular column, The Green Home, looking at simple ways to cut environmental impacts where you live.

In a phone chat Friday, Dr. Holdren said the team would do its best to respond to questions posted by Dot Earth readers in the last couple of days.

Not exact matches

Green dots are stations and red dots are earthquakes near the Earth's surface, the Earth's mantle is transparent, and the ray paths through the interior are shown by solid lines.

Here is the collage of images uploaded by people across the planet for NASA's Cassini «Wave at Saturn» event on July 19th 2013, while Cassini snapped Earth in turn, as a teeny, tiny dot of -LSB-...]

Earth is a tiny blue dot in a photograph taken by the probe on July 19 when the sun was eclipsed by the gas giant

As a teenager, I saw Pale Blue Dot, a photo of Earth taken by Voyager I that led astronomer Carl Sagan to reflect on the insignificance of man in the universe.

Like the famous «Pale Blue Dot» photograph of a distant Earth captured by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it was speeding into the unknown frontiers of our solar system, to Cassini's own portrait of Earth during the 2013 «Wave at Saturn» event, space exploration can give the world a sense of «togetherness.»

Earth's orbit around the sun is indicated by blue dots.

Located only 4.2 light - years from Earth, the so - called Proxima b was discovered by the ESO's La Silla observatory in Chile and astronomers of the Pale Red Dot campaign to much excitement in August.

The inspiration behind bluedot comes from a speech made by iconic scientist Carl Sagan at Cornell University, New York, in which he coined the phrase «pale blue dot» to refer to our home planet, Earth.

The name of the Pale Red Dot campaign was inspired by the famous pale blue dot image of the Earth, taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 on its way to interstellar spaDot campaign was inspired by the famous pale blue dot image of the Earth, taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 on its way to interstellar spadot image of the Earth, taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 on its way to interstellar space.

The lovely ladies were joined by Hannah «s New Girl co-star Lamorne Morris, January «s Last Man on Earth co-star Will Forte, as well as The Comedians «Josh Gad and Glee «s Dot Marie Jones.

This is a city where nothing is done by halves, and its futuristic skyline is dotted with some of the highest skyscrapers on earth.

Artist innovative and pioneering, surprised us by creating an entirely personal artistic style, with richly paintings combining rippling dots of paint, drifts of glitter, collaged images and elephant dung — varnished, often studded with map pins and applied to the picture surface as well as supporting the canvas — a combination of physical elevation and symbolic link to the earth.

2016» Periplos», (Curated By Fernando Frances), CAC Málaga Museum, Málaga, Spain 2016» Down To Earth», (Curated By Kwaku Boateng), The Dot Project Gallery, London, Uk 2015» 1/81,» Fig Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain 2015» 1/81», Coa Museum, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal 2015» (De) Nature», (Curated By Pauline Foessel), Underdogs at Comporta, Portugal 2015» Atemporal», (Curated By Antonio Bokel), Galeria Graphos.

Dale R. McIntyre, a metallurgical engineer from Bartlesville, Okla., who's been an articulate and constructive voice on Dot Earth for a long time, took issue with aspects of «The WATT,» the planned primer on energy proposed by Focus the Nation.

The other tune that Steve Forbert provided to Dot Earth is The Oil Song, which he told me he has updated year by year since he wrote it.

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[Learn more in this 2012 Dot Earth post by Wright: «A High - Rise Lab Amid Madagascar's Troubled Treetops.»]

In the related Dot Earth post, I included some remarkable video shot for the Environmental Protection Agency showing the difference between looking at an oil or gas facility with a standard camera and one tuned to the infrared wavelengths absorbed by gases like methane — the main constituent of natural gas:

Dot Earth was created by Andrew Revkin in October 2007 — in part with support from a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship — to explore ways to balance human needs and the planet's limits.

To get a sense of the man, here's a talk he gave at the Slow Life Symposium in Maldives not long ago, followed by Lynas's «Your Dot» take for Dot Earth on the role of small developing countries in addressing the greenhouse challenge:

Please forgive me if I am telling you something that you already know, but you can get back to the entire lists of all the posts by clicking on «Back to front page» right under the big blue «Dot Earth» at the top left of this column.

Reader ranking on Dot Earth will be used by the group to help determine winners.

Anyone pondering my approach would benefit by reading or listening to David Folkenflik's 2009 NPR story examining Dot Earth after Rush Limbaugh suggested I kill myself to save the planet.

Thanks for helping keep Dot Earth worthwhile, not just by reading what I write, but also by reacting and constructively weighing in.

The change in Earth's moment of inertia, a quantity called J2 - dot, due to the ongoing isostatic rebound in Canada after the last ice age, has been well observed by satellite orbit monitoring, e.g., of the Lageos laser reflecting satellites.

The chart (generated by Ignatius Rigor for Dot Earth) shows the state of the Arctic Oscillation, a pattern of atmospheric pressure that has two phases, positive and negative (somewhat like the more familiar cycle of El Niño and La Niña in the Pacific).

A Dot Earth reader from England and Joe Romm have recalled that last year Fox News ran a breathless «exclusive» about the National Science Foundation unleashing its Inspector General to investigate potential impropriety by Michael Mann, the Pennsylvania State University climatologist who for years has been a target of foes of restricting greenhouse gases.

As an alternative, perhaps there is someone else in the Dot Earth community who will help make the question understandable by responding to it or by stating the question in a different way.

5:10 p.m. Updated below A spirited discussion has built on Dot Earth and elsewhere in response to the potent weekend Op - Ed article by Roger Bradbury of Australian National University challenging hopeful visions of coral reef restoration and calling them «zombie ecosystems» — the living dead — in a human - dominated world.

Related There's a new peer - reviewed study by Lawrence Cathles of Cornell University (on Dot Earth previously) reinforcing existing research pointing to the substantial climate benefit in a shift from coal to gas.

I'd like to send Mr. Obama's transition team your 10 best proposals, as determined by their ranking by readers using one of Dot Earth's newest features.

Perhaps I could make a plea of my own here by asking you to join me, Steve Bolger, Laurie Dougherty and other friends of Dot Earth in NYC.

My Dot Earth participation over the last eight months is mainly motivated by the deep linkage between the (very real) human concepts / dynamics of morality and the notion of sustainability.

For more, review relevant Dot Earth posts, read this National Catholic Reporter article on the workshop and statement and «The Vatican, Birth Control, and Galileo's Ghost,» a skeptical, but hopeful commentary by Robert Walker, the president of the Population Institute.

In case you missed it in 2009, here's a commencement speech addressed to the Class of 2099 by Danny Bloom of Taiwan, one of Dot Earth's most avid early contributors and a proponent of «Polar Cities» as a response to global warming:

Nearly six years ago, I first encouraged Dot Earth readers to enliven and, to some extent, humanize and tame this conversation about the human journey by offering short YouTube greetings that could serve as a calling card.

Ruffalo added another element, a reference to an all - renewable energy plan for New York State created by Stanford University's Mark Jacobson and others (discussed on Dot Earth here):

As an example, discussions of «climate change» have become complicated by confusion about definitions offered by various groups, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Framework Convention on Climate Change [link], as emphasized by a previous «Dot Earth» story written by Revkin.

I'm finally poised to post some of the recent contributions of photographs sent by a various Dot Earth readers and can add YouTube (or other) links, as well.

Here's an excerpt from the release, followed by some valuable context from the biologist (and frequent Dot Earth voice) Carl Safina, whose books include the marvelous «Eye of the Albatross ``:

Mankind has wronged this place (called Dot Earth by Andrew Revkin) and has become shamefully dismayed.

I shot the video above for Dot Earth at Bamboo Sushi, a restaurant in Portland, Ore., that catches its own albacore with its own boat and serves only fish certified by the Marine Stewardship Council.

UPDATE, 5/17/09: Here's a commencement speech addressed to the Class of 2099 by Danny Bloom of Taiwan, one of Dot Earth's most avid contributors and a proponent of «Polar Cities» as a response to global warming:

Ms. Roberts is not alone in pressing the case for action on family planning, a greater focus by scientists on clarifying population trends and their implications and a lot more resources committed to facilitating a smooth transition toward stable populations in places now seeing explosive growth (the «population cluster bombs» I wrote about early in Dot Earth).

I'm trying to make sense of this for Dot Earth readers and hope, with your varied vantage points, you can help by providing your perspective.

The pushback has come both in the comment string on Dot Earth following my recent post on him and at Breakthrough Journal, which posted «Conservation in the Anthropocene,» an essay by Kareiva and two colleagues, followed by a package of rebuttals and, most recently, a response from Kareiva et al..

This idea of volcanoes instead of atmpospheric changes causing the arctic ice to melt was a rumor started by people like Rush Limbaugh, and was immediately debunked by several Dot Earth posters.