Crowdsourcing. Plates-formes de curation. Reality. Poland's shale gas hopes buoyed by promising test output. Interview With Nick Grealy, The Shale Gas Guru. Nick Grealy is one of the leading advocates of shale gas in Europe. As well as being the publisher of the site No Hot Air , Nick consults on the impact of shale gas, and has appeared in front of UK Parliamentary Committees and on such shows as BBC’s Newsnight to discuss the topic. Nick is very passionate, opinionated, and a little eccentric. In a world in which shale gas is generally portrayed in a negative light, Nick instead sees it as a bridge to a low carbon environment. So enjoy below some colorful responses from ‘The Shale Gas Guru’.
–Would you describe yourself as an environmentalist? Certainly, but I’m from the pragmatic, and dare I say, optimistic wing of environmentalists. –You describe yourself as ‘a recovering energy consultant’. I think most people don’t need energy consultants in the UK sense where people for some bizarre reason think they need to fix prices instead of going with the flow of market forces. –You moved to New York in your teens, and stayed for two decades. Fracking: the monster we greens must embrace | Fred Pearce | Comment is free.
A drilling rig set up by Cuadrilla Resources to explore the Bowland shale for gas, four miles from Blackpool. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Most environmentalists are in no doubt. The new technology of fracking to extract shale gas from the rocks beneath our homes is both a nasty neighbour and a sure recipe for climate Armageddon. Not only that, fracking was pioneered in the US, the gas-guzzling land of climate sceptics. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, uses high-pressure water to shatter shale rocks and release natural gas lurking within. The gas is then piped to the surface. Shale rocks are widespread. However, I can't bring myself to condemn it. Their case is that the last thing we need as we fight climate change is more natural gas. Climate scientists believe we have to cut carbon dioxide emissions globally by 80% by later this century to halt global warming.
The thing is, fossil fuels differ. Take the US. The global stakes are high. Is he right? This is seductive. High Inequality Results in More US Deaths than Tobacco, Car Crashes and Guns Combined | Blog, Q&A. In 2009, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a study that revealed what seems to be a shocking truth: those who live in societies with a higher level of income inequality are at a greater risk for premature death. Here in the United States, our high level of income inequality corresponds with 883, 914 unnecessary deaths each year. More specifically, the report concluded that if we had an income distribution more like that of the Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland — or eleven other wealthy countries — every year, about one in three deaths in the US could be avoided. Put that into perspective. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), tobacco, including second-hand smoke, causes approximately 480,000 deaths every year, and in 2010, traffic accidents killed 33,687 people and 31,672 others died of gunshot wounds.
The mechanism by which a bullet or a car crash kills is readily apparent. Joshua Holland: The US is among the richest countries in the world. 14 Emerging Digital Technologies That Will Change The World. Policy Horizons Canada worked with futurist and data visualizer Michell Zappa of Envisioning to produce a report called MetaScan 3: Emerging Technologies and accompanying infographics. We are reproducing the summary for emerging digital and communications technologies. In electronics, advances take the form of faster computers, flexible and printable electronics, and smaller and better sensors. In networking, the trend is towards more interoperability between networks, higher bandwidth and more virtual services.
In human interfaces, we see change converging on more portable devices and enormously improved telepresence between people. We have included predictions based on consultation with experts of when each technology will be scientifically viable (the kind of stuff that Google, governments, and universities develop), mainstream (when VCs and startups widely invest in it), and financially viable (when the technology is generally available on Kickstarter). Electronics Networking Interfaces. Future Society & Enviroment. Nature Photos Team. You had to know. Nicola Tesla. Tesla Coil. Nikola Tesla. Astronomy Blogs & Websites. Outils de publication automatique. Comparateur collaboratif S'inscrire Se connecter Se connecter Déconnexion Mon Espace - Outils de publication automatique Internet > Communications > Curation J'aime 13 mars 2017 23:49:44 Comparatif des outils de publication automatique Outils permettant de sélectionner automatiquement des contenus en ligne, de les mettre en page et de les publier.
Ce comparatif est associé à celui des plates-formes de curation, qui permettent la sélection manuelle de contenu et leur éditorialisation : Le tableau est librement modifiable, vous pouvez le mettre à jour vous-même et noter vos outils préférés. Inclure 2011-03-11 16:06:57 2017-03-13 23:49:44 Curation Compare Aggregate vs Curata vs Curators.com vs DayLife vs Fever vs Flipboard vs Genieo vs Paper.li vs Publitweet vs Pulse vs Qwiki vs Summify vs The Twitted Times vs Yahoo! Plus de comparatifs Commentaires a noté Paper.li: Note globale 1Not user friendly. Laisser un commentaire. SF&W Process. Red (team) Analysis Strategic Foresight & Warning, Horizon Scanning, Risk Assessment. Revisiting timeliness for Strategic Foresight and Warning. [Fully rewritten version v3] To exist, risk and foresight products as well as warnings must be delivered to those who must act upon them, the customers, clients or users.
These anticipation analyses must also be actionable, which means that they need to include the right information necessary to see action taken. Yet, if you deliver your anticipation when there is no time anymore to do anything, then your work will be wasted. Yet, even if you deliver your impeccable strategic foresight or risk analysis, or your crucial actionable warning to your clients in time to see a response implemented, but at a moment when your customers, decision-makers or policy-makers cannot hear you, then your anticipation effort will again be wasted.
Let me give you an example. If you look at the picture used as featured image, what you see is the Obama government in a situation room as it awaits updates on the 2011 Operation Neptune’s Spear, the mission against Osama bin Laden. References. “Delivery” of Strategic Foresight and Warning “products:” learning from the social and mobile web? A warning does not exist if it is not delivered. This is a key lesson highlighted by the famous expert in warning Cynthia Grabo, who worked as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. government from 1942 to 1980 (Anticipating Surprise: Analysis for Strategic Warning, Editor’s Preface). Similarly, a foresight product such as scenarios, for example, has to be delivered or communicated. Actually, Cynthia Grabo’s point is true for any anticipatory activity, whatever its name, from risk management to horizon scanning. Furthermore, if strategic foresight and early warning are to be actionable, if they are to allow for true preparedness, then clients – the decision-makers and policy-makers to whom the product has been delivered and communicated – must pay heed to the foresight, or to the warning.
What decision-makers then decide to do with those warnings is another story. Lessons learned The most famous strategic surprise or warning failure is the attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941. INSPIRE. CBRN threats (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) Women's Rights. Ending Violence and Abuse. Cloud Computing for dummies. Women Rights. Literature databases. Woman Rights & Feminism. Women's rights - Russia. Work Life Balance. Online. Hardware. Twitter tools 'n' tips. Cardiology. Futurism. Science Articles.
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For independent political scientist Dr Hélène Lavoix, it is a necessity for social good, and Paper.li is a useful tool. Hélène identifies possible risks facing the global population to help prevent wars or disasters. She researches often hidden threats using various tools including a weekly Paper.li to scan the global horizon for anything that may create dangerous tipping points and dailies for more specific problems. Her consultancy, Red (team) Analysis, based in Paris, designs methods, trains and researches reports for clients on topics ranging from the future of energy to social unrest and conflict.
Initially, I specialized in finance in France, but then went to live in Cambodia, right after the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement. I decided to try, as much as I could, to contribute to preventing wars. Basically, it is crucial for survival; it is inbuilt in a more or less developed form within all living species. Tsunami simulations scare Japan. STR/epa/Corbis Japan has been forced to review its tsunami defences in the wake of last year’s disaster. Japan’s government is heeding a key message from last year’s Tohoku earthquake and tsunami: the underwater faults that encircle the country can unleash much greater devastation than previously anticipated.
Last week, the cabinet’s disaster-management division briefed local officials on simulations that raise the spectre of waves even larger and more destructive than those last March, sending the officials scrambling to rethink their tsunami defence plans. The estimates come from a government-appointed team of scientists led by Katsuyuki Abe, a tsunami expert and emeritus professor of the University of Tokyo.
Ninety cities and towns must consider how to withstand a tsunami wave of higher than 10 metres, whereas just ten locales were expecting this from the older simulations. “We need to know how high the water will come at different points. Energy. Pearlers with good stuff. Plants. National and Global Security Issues. FITNESS. Cooked Recipes. Computers/ Water Security. Ecosystem changes. Foreign Policy: Egypt, Our Burning Heritage. Hide captionAn Egyptian woman shouts slogans during a protest in downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square to denounce the military's attacks on women and to call for an immediate end to the violence against protesters on Dec. 20, 2011.
Filippo Monteforte/AFP Photo An Egyptian woman shouts slogans during a protest in downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square to denounce the military's attacks on women and to call for an immediate end to the violence against protesters on Dec. 20, 2011. Adel Abdel Ghafar is a Ph.D. student at the Australian National University. On the evening of Saturday, Dec. 17, while thousands of protesters confronted military police in downtown Cairo, I stood watching a valuable piece of Egypt's cultural heritage go up in smoke.
As Molotov cocktails and bullets flew around the cabinet building, where the clashes were concentrated, the nearby Egyptian Scientific Institute, a decrepit and neglected old building full of rare books and valuable manuscripts, had caught fire. Who is to blame? Bishops Blast Contraception Compromise, but White House Stays Firm. The nation’s Catholic leaders on Friday rejected the Obama administration’s compromise for covering birth-control services for employees at religious institutions, according to the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal. The revised White House plans lifts a requirement that faith-linked hospitals, universities, and charities pay for contraceptive coverage, instead requiring that their insurance carriers offer such services directly to employees, with no co-pays.
Chief of staff Jacob Lew said Sunday that the administration would not amend the regulation further, Reuters writes. In a statement issued late Friday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said the compromise does not go far enough and that the federal government’s overall mandate that women have free access to contraception remains “a grave moral concern.” Return to Top. Git howto. Heart. Technology. My Library. iPad for Teaching & Learning. Horizon scanning & identified issues. Resources from space. Cyber security. Demographics, Pandemics, Epidemics and Health. Testing 2012 Predictions. Ecology & Environment, Energy. Recyclage. Environnement... Astronomy & Space.
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