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The Daily Telegraph points to thorium as a way out of the energy crisis. Dr Rubbia says a tonne of the silvery metal – named after the Norse god of thunder, who also gave us Thor’s day or Thursday – produces as much energy as 200 tonnes of uranium, or 3,500,000 tonnes of . . . → Read More: Thorium could be the answer to the energy crisis BP has been quite tight-lipped about what is going on at the Deepwater Oil Spill site, so it is difficult as a member of the public to understand the issues about the spill. There is a web site, The Oil Drum, which has attracted a lot of informed comments about the developing situation . . . → Read More: What is really going on in the Gulf of Mexico? If global warming hasn’t frightened your socks off yet, then take a look at these two news items: 1. The UK is likely to run out of soil in the next 60 years. Other countries are similarly affected: An estimated 75 billion tonnes of soil is lost annually with more than 80 per . . . → Read More: Running out of… Valencia and La Albufera if the sea level rises just one meter Flood Map, a Google mashup, shows which land will be under water when Global Warming raises the sea level. (Via Boing . . . → Read More: Are you going to get wet feet? If you thought the current financial crisis was bad news, things are looking even worse for 2030, says an article in the Guardian today: A “perfect storm” of food shortages, scarce water and insufficient energy resources threaten to unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migration as people flee from the worst-affected regions, the . . . → Read More: More disturbing news It has taken German politicians three years to agree how cars should be taxed such that the tax reflects – at least partially – the amount of damage that their emissions do to the environment. US politicians spent most of the last eight years in denial that the climate could be influenced by humans. . . . → Read More: Politicians are just too slow Graphic from the WWF report The Living Planet Mankind. The worst thing for the planet Earth, according to The Living Planet Report (download the report – pdf (4.4 MB). The report is written in an easy to read style, not for hardened economists, so its worth taking a look at it and not just . . . → Read More: The worst thing for the planet Wow. Nasa publishes some really interesting photos. This one is of Phobos, the larger of Mars two moons. For more information and a larger version of the photo (up to approx. 3300 x 3300 pixels versions are available, so you could use it as your desktop background!), click on the picture below: Image . . . → Read More: Nasa’s photo of the day
The problem is, few GPS loggers come with any software for downloading and processing the track data on a Mac. I’m not aware of any that supports OS X “out of the box”. However, there is lots of third party software around which can be used to read out the scans and process them on the Mac. It takes time to track them down, however. So here’s what works for me: The Observer claims to have obtained a confidential report commissioned by the Pentagon: Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters. A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities . . . → Read More: Pentagon: Britain will have “Siberian” climate in 12 years time |
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