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  The overall composition of this video is excellent, except for one thing: the breakneck speed at which content is presented. This detracts significantly from the educational experience.

  On Ask Umbra's video advice on grilling posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago 2 Responses

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  Recently Grist has elected to refresh its web site design so that its form and function follows the prevailing mode of rolling out more complex layouts laden with feature-rich multimedia support. Certainly Grist is aware that this practice is resource-intense for each supporting node, in that it requires more storage and router capacity due to the larger bandwidth demands, and more operational overhead, which has real ecological and financial costs. The question is, what real-world environmental cost calculations has Grist made?

   

  One cost borne by the present incarnation of its service pertains to the embedded print option. For example, click on the "Print" icon and a print dialog box appears with no "text only" print option. Many articles could easily be formatted to fit onto one 8.5x11" page with margins set to .75", but Grist.beta fails to make the inclusion of this important option a priority, at a time when many people viewing web pages from computers still print out articles, however short their length on paper which is probably 30 percent PCW at most. This unimplemented measure requires far more print space and ink on average, which adds real costs for everyone, upstream and downstream. While it is true that there are products like greenprint, smartprint, etc., some of these programs are still limited in their operational effectiveness and platform support, and many people will never use them due to their cost or other requirements.

   

   

  On What should Microsoft do on climate? posted 7 months, 1 week ago 5 Responses

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  Enviro-skeptic Skips to the Fully-Weaponized
  Technogarden Retreat. . .

  You watched six million dollar man too
  Then went bionic in Biosphere II
  Threw fits when the oxygen leaped and flew
  From a spicy stew of letters genetic
  (Fine words composed to bend the truth pathetic)

  Energy technology will save us!
  It's the D.O.D. meets E.T. myth that sustains us
  Animates humankind
  Suspends borrowed time
  On our hot, flat, and crowded
  Real estate prime
  Anthropic

  By Stephen Koermer
  [Nominated three consecutive times for the "knee-deep in it" carbon trafficker of the year award.]

   

  On Friedman uses perch at Gray Lady to push for carbon tax posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago 0 Responses

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  Note:

  Dear Grist Reader:

  The composition titled "Carbon Slaves Unite! Carbon Slaves Re-form!" was written in May of 2007, in honor of the virtuous, industry-funded, climate change skeptic.

  The lyric displayed in the preceding post was composed in the summer of 2004. This modest exercise, with its changeable nature, was the result of digesting disturbing climate change news that raged throughout our overgrown 2003-04 wildland-urban interface. Who would guess such an expression represented yet another decisive inflection point along our road to riches. Trapping the heat for future generations. . .

  Sincerely,

  Stephen Koermer
  csu::a humble carbon slave::csu

  If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. GBSOn Gandhi, King, and climate change posted 1 year, 7 months ago 15 Responses

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  under pressure - shake down

  under pressure
  shake down
  to avert certain climate disaster. . .

  i've seared your skies with my evidence
  i've stole your seas as well
  i've wrecked your land, with my monstrous command
  might as well be you as well. . .
  the stories i could buy and sell.

  Lyrics by Stephen Koermer. Copyright C2008. All rights reserved.On Gandhi, King, and climate change posted 1 year, 7 months ago 15 Responses