NEW ORLEANS – BP says oil has stopped leaking into the Gulf for the first time since April.
BP has been slowly dialing down the flow as part of a test on a new cap. Engineers are now monitoring the pressure to see if the busted well holds.
Valuable food for thought in these difficult times.
In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto’s GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats.
According to the study, which was summarized by Adam Shake at Twilight Earth, “Three varieties of Monsanto’s GM corn – Mon 863, insecticide-producing Mon 810, and Roundup® herbicide-absorbing NK 603 – were approved for consumption by US, European and several other national food safety authorities.”
By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer
NEW YORK – The Copenhagen talks on climate change were convened with a sense of urgency that many ordinary folks don’t share. Why is that? One big reason: It’s hard for people to get excited about a threat that seems far away in space and time, psychologists say.
“It’s not in people’s faces,” said psychologist Robert Gifford of the University of Victoria in British Columbia. “It is in the media, but not in their everyday experience. That’s quite a different thing.”
by Jennifer Grayson
My father is an extremely intelligent man, and I respect his advice about a lot of things. I’m embarrassed to admit, however, that he’s a global warming denier. I’ve tried to change his mind, but he just doesn’t want to listen. How can I get my father to come around on climate change?
-AJ
Your dad isn’t the only one who’s going to need some serious convincing: The number of Americans who believe global warming is real has fallen from 80 to 72 percent in the past year. This, all before emails from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia were stolen and subsequently leaked, raising questions about the integrity of the scientists’ global warming data. Add to that the ensuing “Climategate” frenzy by the cable news talking heads, who often seem more interested in sound bytes than exploring the nuance of any given issue, and the result is a population divided into believers and deniers.