high pregnancy failure in killer whales in Puget Sound

A multi-year survey of the nutritional, physiological and reproductive health of endangered southern resident killer whales suggests that up to two-thirds of pregnancies failed in this population from 2007 to 2014. The study links this orca population’s low reproductive success to stress brought on by low or variable abundance of their most nutrient-rich prey, Chinook salmon.


http://www.washington.edu/news/2017/06/29/study-shows-high-pregnancy-failure-in-southern-resident-killer-whales-links-to-nutritional-stress-and-low-salmon-abundance/

terrifying discussion of the looming climate singularity

Professor Guy McPherson and Peter Wadhams, two of the leading voices on climate change and the Arctic methane risk. Wadhams mentions that everything is going exponential and discusses the implications of the loss of sea ice. Professor Chu hypothesises that we will exceed 600ppm of carbon and that excludes the forcing of all the other green house gases including methane. That is unsurvivable btw

Moderates always cave

He's referring to GOP "moderates" but the principle can be broadly applied.

https://twitter.com/intelligencer/status/878259678937010176

Eye of the Storm

There's a Zen drawing called The 3 Laughing Sages... this is not it

The kids are gonna be fine

If Obama assembled his own Avengers Team to take on Trump

A big loser

Is Reince on the way out?

Australia to invest clean energy funds in Coal

The Turnbull government will enshrine its belief in coal as an ongoing source of power generation by introducing legislation to enable the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to invest in carbon capture and storage.

The CEFC is a $10 billion taxpayer-funded loan facility established by Labor to invest in the development of renewable and clean energy sources.

Months after first flagging the move, Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has announced the government will legislate to expand the CEFC's mandate so it can invest in carbon capture and storage technology which, if ever successfully developed, will enable emissions from coal-fired power stations to be kept out of the atmosphere. The CEFC will not be investing in other so-called clean coal technology such as the construction of a High Efficiency Low Emissions (HELE) power station



Read more: http://www.afr.com/news/cefc-to-be-used-for-coal-josh-frydenberg-20170529-gwfy9q#ixzz4icahTTnL
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