Archive for February, 2008



A Beautiful Lie

via: Hug-Lies and A Beautiful Lie

Nice collection of tips from abeautifullie.org helpful to reduce energy consumption.

1. Slow down to cut costs and cut carbon! Slowing down from 75 mph to 65 mph will drop your highway gasoline consumption 15 percent.

2. If everyone took 30 seconds to inflate their tires to the proper pressure we would save 200,000 barrels of oil a day!

3. Bring Your Own Bag: You’ll save one mile’s worth of petroleum for every 14 plastic bags you don’t use. Not to mention cut down on pollution-we throw away over 30 billion one time use bags each year. (more…)

Satellite picture

Though the eleven year solor cycle as well as the Southern Oscillation hit their minimum 2007 is recorded as second warmth year in the period of instrumental data.

More:
Wikipedia: Solar Cycle
Marshall Space Flight Center: NASA Satellites Capture Start of New Solar Cycle
Goddard Institute for Space Studies : Global Temperature Trends: 2007 Summation