Even More Environmental Links

-Here's a fascinating presentation on one man's plan for society to adopt the electric car.  Perhaps most notably, he calls for a network of locations where depleted batteries can be exchanged for fully charged ones (as opposed to finding somewhere to charge them).

-The latest consensus was that sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean would disappear in about the year 2100.  After a two-year study involving 370 scientists from 27 countries, the new estimate is that it will be gone by 2030 (see graph below).

-Here's a textbook example of NIMBYism in action: Obama and many others are supporting a wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, but local residents don't want the windmills to spoil their view.





-Here's a blurb about the graph we discussed in class (not the hockey stick graph, the one displaying cost-effectiveness of various changes).  The author is not happy that Obama is pushing for "clean coal" and biofuels -- two of the less cost-efficient reforms.