IBM System to Model Global Warming

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Global trade = global warming

Global trade = global warming 12/12/2003 03:17 AM
Salon Dec 12 2003 2:13AM ET

Global trade, global warming

Global trade, global warming 12/11/2003 01:36 AM
Salon Dec 11 2003 0:56AM ET

Global Warming

Global Warming 08/27/2004 01:58 PM
At last, high-level Administration acknowledgment that global warming is real, and that human activity (mainly the burning of fossil fuels, principally oil, natural gas, and coal, and deforestation in Third World countries) is a principal cause because such activity emits carbon dioxide. (See also Times article.) Greenhouse gases, such as...

Global Warming (II)

Global Warming (II) 08/27/2004 01:58 PM
Good comments, and mostly supportive though some skeptical along the lines of climate models are complex, climate science is uncertain, the experts may be wrong. All true; but reading the skeptical literature, I am reminded of the debates in the 1960s over the effects of cigarette smoking on human health....

The Scent of Global Warming

The Scent of Global Warming 06/18/2004 04:08 PM
Wired News Jun 18 2004 8:19PM GMT

Deciding How Much Global Warming Is Too
Much

Deciding How Much Global Warming Is Too
Much 02/01/2005 09:41 PM
After a decade of cautious circling, some scientists and policy makers are now trying to define "dangerous climate change."

Global Warming Filtered

Global Warming Filtered 02/05/2005 09:02 PM
Global Warming Links - a compendium of resources.

Bush: Global warming is just hot air

Bush: Global warming is just hot air 09/09/2004 11:50 PM
Salon Sep 10 2004 4:00AM GMT

Air travel and global warming

Air travel and global warming 01/22/2004 03:01 AM

Scott Mackinney criticizes me in a comment on my blog about the damage I am causing to the environment with all of my air travel. I actually have been feeling a bit guilty about that and has been wondering where aviation is going to go from here.

On the one hand, in some areas, air travel is becoming cheaper and there are even people talking about small, low-cost private planes becoming more common.

A Feb 2000 GAO report warns that the damage to the environment from the emissions from aviation is particularly high because it is emitted into the upper atmosphere and that increased damage due to increases in travel can not be offset by technological advances. A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of experts affiliated with the UN warned that the share of global warming caused by air traffic could increase from 3.5% in 1992 to 17% in 2050.

We clearly have a problem here. In an IHT article that I can not seem to find a link to, I read that one of the possibilities was to fly lower where there would be more turbulence, but less damage. I've also heard about the idea of levying high taxes for air travel. In any event, the air travel utopia story seems a bit flawed and if we would get up off our asses and really do something about global warming (which we must) one of the first hit probably should be our global aviation habits.

I WAS going to write about this before, but hadn't been able to gather enough sources. (Honest! ;-) ) I still don't think I have enough information to have an educated opinion. Any pointers to more resources would be greatly appreciated.

Global Warming Picnic

Global Warming Picnic 05/19/2004 09:13 AM

We had a week or more of summer in the first week of May this year, while last year at this time it was still snowing on occasion. It was weather that begged for a picnic and so a few of us obeyed.

The weather has snapped back to its more normal pattern, but I can't help but be concerned when it's early May and 80+F in Finland and I read articles like Arctic Temperatures Warming Rapidly Polar Explorer, where a polar explorer describes the extreme amount of melting in the polar ice cap. The Arctic ice  has thinned by 40% over the last 20 years so you have to wonder what the dramatic change in the ice over the past year will mean in terms of climate change. The Helsingin Sanomat carried a story yesterday, Finland's climate may become warmer by up to 5°C, coming in the next 50 years, which would make Finland warmer than most of Southern Europe. Not to be forgotten is the Pentagon report: A n Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security. The movie The Day After Tomorrow is being released later next week which will have the effect of making global warming seem like nothing more than an action movie that lasts 2 hours and has the typically happy American ending in spite of the premise for the movie being scary enough to prompt the Pentagon to study worst-case scenarios.

I understand why people don't want to believe in the idea of global warming or dramatic climate change as the consequences are dire, but no amount of optimisim can change the course that nature is on. There has been enough research into past climate changes to support the theory of polar melting initiating a dramatic climate change via gulf stream disruption. It doesn't even need to be dramatic as the very well written, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850, describes. So, go enjoy the nice weather while it's here since all the evidence suggests that there may be few years remaining where we can.

CeBIT a time for global warming

CeBIT a time for global warming 04/29/2004 08:31 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29 2004 11:47PM GMT

Extinctions Due to Global Warming
Predicted

Extinctions Due to Global Warming
Predicted 01/09/2004 10:12 PM
Slashdot Jan 8 2004 10:24PM ET

IBM Supercomputer to Forecast Global
Warming

IBM Supercomputer to Forecast Global
Warming 02/10/2004 11:59 PM
UC Irvine researchers will use an IBM supercomputer to predict the impact of global warming on the Earth up to 300 years into the future.

Nuclear power or global warming

Nuclear power or global warming 05/26/2004 06:10 PM
James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia t heory, says that only a massive expansion of nuclear power as the world's main energy source can alleviate the effects of global warming. [Via WorldChanging.]

Global Warming Causes Lower Yields

Global Warming Causes Lower Yields 07/01/2004 05:15 AM
Free Internet Press Jul 1 2004 9:36AM GMT

Supervillainy: Astroengineering Global
Warming

Supervillainy: Astroengineering Global
Warming 04/08/2005 04:57 AM
Last year in April, at a sf convention here in Canberra, I watched a presentation on global warming by Gregory Benford, supposedly telling us about a global warming summit that he had recently participated in. Anticipating the nature of his audience, he first showed us the summit's deliberately conservative final numbers on temperature rise, carbon dioxide levels etc for the next 26 years, then quickly demolished some popular but flawed solutions with clear logic and straightforward calculation. Then he showed us the solution that he'd presented, amid mixed amusement and excitement, to the distinguished climatologists, meteorologists, physicists, chemists, biologists, political scientists, economists, engineerists, environmentalists and journalists at the summit. As a result of attending Greg's little overhead-projected show, I now believe that the cheapest, most effective and most practical answer to global warming is to think like a supervillain and block out the sun's rays using a giant rotating Space Lens suspended directly in front of the Sun! Muahahaha! Let me tell you why.

Global warming hits UK birds.

Global warming hits UK birds. 07/30/2004 07:34 PM
Global warming hits UK birds. The year without young. Have we hit the bottleneck?

"Michael Crichton on global warming"

"Michael Crichton on global warming" 01/04/2004 03:27 PM

UK Releases Global Warming Report

UK Releases Global Warming Report 04/22/2004 12:01 PM

Global Warming Killing Thousands

Global Warming Killing Thousands 12/12/2003 06:49 AM
Climate change, linked by scientists to human emissions of gases such as carbon dioxide from cars and factories, caused 150,000 deaths in 2000, the World Health Organization says, and that number is rising.

Will Global Warming Cool Europe?

Will Global Warming Cool Europe? 12/08/2003 05:49 AM
As the melting Arctic ice cap chills the warm ocean current responsible for Western Europe's mild weather, temperatures could take a sharp dip -- after the continent adapts to being almost tropical.

California throws down a global warming
gauntlet

California throws down a global warming
gauntlet 06/28/2004 08:32 AM
The auto industry says California's plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions is illegal and will force consumers to settle for wimpy cars. A major collision between the Golden State and the federal government is looming.

'Boiling Point': Who's to Blame for
Global Warming?

'Boiling Point': Who's to Blame for
Global Warming? 08/15/2004 02:19 AM
Ross Gelbspan is on a mission to correct the failures and misdeeds of politicians, industries, environmentalists and journalists.

Group uses film to oppose global warming

Group uses film to oppose global warming 05/28/2004 09:26 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 29 2004 1:07AM GMT

Global Warming (III): The Public
Intellectuals Weigh in

Global Warming (III): The Public
Intellectuals Weigh in 08/27/2004 09:20 PM
The following description of a recent conference on the world's worst ills, featuring several economists who had been awarded the Nobel Prize in economics, enables me to sink global-warming skeptics and academic public intellectuals with only one salvo. "An international panel of economists brought together to rank the world's worst...

Global Warming Ignites Tempers, Even in
a Movie

Global Warming Ignites Tempers, Even in
a Movie 05/12/2004 01:23 AM
Twentieth Century Fox does not seem to have fully anticipated the political firestorm being whipped up by "The Day After Tomorrow," a $125 million movie about global warming.

No Doubts Global Warming Is Real, U.S.
Experts Say

No Doubts Global Warming Is Real, U.S.
Experts Say 12/04/2003 01:16 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 4 2003 0:38AM ET

Diesel Soot Seen As Global Warming
Factor

Diesel Soot Seen As Global Warming
Factor 12/22/2003 06:32 PM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 22 2003 5:30PM ET

Scientists Blame Soot for Global Warming

Scientists Blame Soot for Global Warming 12/23/2003 06:12 AM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 23 2003 5:19AM ET

Global warming raises stinkbugs
(Reuters)

Global warming raises stinkbugs
(Reuters) 06/18/2004 11:26 AM
Reuters - The discovery of breeding colonies of stinkbugs in London is clear proof that global warming is a fact of life.

Sir Martin Rees on global warming and
other things

Sir Martin Rees on global warming and
other things 01/25/2004 02:59 AM

I sat next to Sir Martin Rees at dinner last night. He is the Royal Astronomer of the UK and the Master of Trinity College. I met him last year at the same dinner. He's amazingly smart and funny.

Ever since I'd posted my entry on aviation and global warming, I've been trying to figure out how to get to the bottom of this issue. The journalists told me that they just cited experts and the trick was to find good experts. I figured Sir Martin Rees would probably have an educated and balanced view.

Sir Martin Rees told me that he thought it was probably true that global warming was happening and that CO2 emissions contributed to it. He said that his main concern with global warming with the possibility that something non-linear would happen. In other words, his worry was not just the melting of the ice caps or the increased heat, but that this would cause something unpredictable and significant, such as a change in the circulation of the oceans.

He talked about some of the interesting mail he got. He said that he once got contacted by a cryogenic company which wanted his opinion on the idea of "the end of involuntary death" by freezing yourself before you die. When he replied that he'd rather be buried in a cemetery than a freezer in Calfornia, the company posted on their web site that "Rees is a deathist".

In a controversial book that he wrote called "Our Final Hour" he says that there is a 50/50 chance that our civilization will end this century. He mentioned that the original title of the book was "Our Final Century?" The British publishers took out the question mark and made it "Our Final Century". Then the US publishers change it to "Our Final Hour". ;-)

The dinner was off the record. "Nothing leaves this room. Just like Las Vegas." But I received permission from Sir Martin Rees to blog his comments. Sir Martin, if you see this and I've quoted you in error, please let me know. I don't have your email address.

Diesel soot seen as global warming
factor

Diesel soot seen as global warming
factor 12/23/2003 03:51 AM
Boston Globe Dec 23 2003 3:18AM ET

Global Warming Hurts Rice Yield

Global Warming Hurts Rice Yield 06/29/2004 02:33 AM
CBS News Jun 29 2004 6:17AM GMT

Acid rain limits global warming

Acid rain limits global warming 08/03/2004 11:05 AM

Scottish skiing meets global warming
(Reuters)

Scottish skiing meets global warming
(Reuters) 02/17/2004 08:04 AM
Reuters - This school holiday week, thousands will be bracing themselves against the wind and sliding downhill through a mixture of mud, ice and boulders -- Scottish skiing has met global warming.

Telegraph | News | The truth about
global warming - it's the Sun that's to
blame

Telegraph | News | The truth about
global warming - it's the Sun that's to
blame 07/19/2004 09:35 AM
UK Telegraph .. A new study .. here you go

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Blair to urge US to take tougher action
on global warming

Blair to urge US to take tougher action
on global warming 09/15/2004 02:16 AM
TONY BLAIR WARNS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN WAKE OF IVAN .. should know better

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Possible solution to global warming:
bury the carbon dioxide

Possible solution to global warming:
bury the carbon dioxide 12/09/2003 12:07 PM
Possible solution to global warming: bury the carbon dioxide.

Scientists Predict Widespread Extinction
by Global Warming

Scientists Predict Widespread Extinction
by Global Warming 01/08/2004 08:37 PM
Scientists have concluded that a warming climate will rival habitat destruction in prompting widespread extinctions in this century.
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A Running Robot Or A Rolling Robot?

A Running Robot Or A Rolling Robot? 12/18/2003 12:58 PM
It took years for researchers to figure out how to make a robot be able to stand and walk on two legs. In fact, it's so complicated, that some researchers are giving up on that idea and using Segway balancing technology on their robots instead of legs. However, the folks at Sony seem to have taken the concept of the upright walking robot one step further: they've figured out how to make a robot run. That's right, it actually leaves the ground at points while jogging along. It apparently needs a bit of a walking start to get up to speed, and even at running speed, it's more of a slow jog - where it's feet barely leave the ground. Still, it's a start, and with some more work, they believe they can really make the robot run.

I, Robot

I, Robot 07/17/2004 07:52 AM
IRrobotMovie.com [Release Date 2004-07-16] .. that upcoming Will Smith movie .. new film version of I, Robot .. back to fiction .. website .. movie .. Robot

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Robot Sex

Robot Sex 05/06/2004 05:17 PM
Simson Garfinkel has written a new Technology Review article on the subject of Robot Sex - not sex as in robot procreation but as in robot gender. Is your robot a male or female? It turns out Honda thinks Asimo is a male and consistently refers to it as "he". The Roomba, on the other hand, is female according to the author. The article also mentions the Neiman Marcus his & her robots which included a male and female robot. There's a related Slashdot discussion.

I not Robot

I not Robot 07/21/2004 02:59 PM
Scott Rosenberg cites the NY Time's nailing of what's so wonderful about the original I, Robot stories, and then adds his own contemplations. Unlike Scott, though, I'm going to see the movie. I think of it as meeting someone named Abe Lincoln. Just a coincidence....

Wow Robot KHR-1

Wow Robot KHR-1 07/07/2004 08:04 AM

< img src="http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/khr01.jpg" alt="khr01.jpg image" width="141" height="250" class="borderyes" border="0" align="right" vspace="5" hspace="15"/>I don't know everything about this $1,450 'KHR-1' kit from Korean firm Wow Robot, but just from watching the video I can put together that this little humanoid bot can kick (soccer-style), shuffle step, pick itself up off the floor, and assume any number of badass fighting poses. All 17 different joints are powered by a single motor, and there is even software to pre-script the movements on your computer and play them back again and again. Probably a little out of most casual robotics fans' price range, but for those that really like contributing to our species' ultimate destruction, you know, on the side, the Wow Robot is a lot of cybernetic doom for not a lot of cash. (Thanks, Soonkack!)
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I Robot Now

I Robot Now 12/23/2003 07:18 AM
I want one of these .. fully automated .. Yeah, right .. NS-5 robot .. iRobotNow .. assistant

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Yo, robot

Yo, robot 06/13/2004 08:59 AM

"I, Robot"

"I, Robot" 07/16/2004 08:21 AM
Will Smith has one hot bod, but is that enough to overcome this futuristic flick's edifice complex?

Run, robot, run

Run, robot, run 12/18/2003 01:05 PM
ZDNet Dec 18 2003 12:12PM ET

"I, Robot "

"I, Robot " 07/18/2004 09:48 PM

"I Robot Now"

"I Robot Now" 12/23/2003 03:23 PM

You, Robot

You, Robot 12/22/2004 01:24 AM
It's been a while since we mentioned Hans Moravec but a new Scientific American article turns out to be just what we needed. The article gives an update on his company, Seegrid Corporation, and the robot vision system they've been developing. Along the way he talks about the growth of raw computing power from the bacterium-level ENIAC to the modern guppy-level desktop PC.

What Sex is Your Robot?

What Sex is Your Robot? 05/06/2004 10:05 AM

I, Robot Boycott

I, Robot Boycott 07/16/2004 01:34 AM
By the 1940s Isaac Asimov grew tired of reading endless pulp stories about masses of evil, marauding robots attempting to destroy their creators. His answer was a series of stories in which Susan Calvin, a robopsychologist, solves mysteries caused by conflicts in the Laws of Robotics, a set of ethical rules governing robot behaviour. Asimov's first collection of robot stories was titled I, Robot. Hollywood is trying to pull a fast one by licensing the title of Asimov's book for a completely unrelated movie, originally called Hardwired, about masses of evil, marauding robots attempting to destroy their creators. A hasty rewrite of the script added a few references to the Laws of Robotics and renamed some characters to match Asimov's story. There's a Susan Calvin in the film but she's just along to watch Will Smith shoot things. A petition failed to persuade 20th Century Fox to change the name of the film and now growing numbers of outraged Science Fiction fans request that people boycott the opening week of I, Robot. I plan on joining them, in an effort to put a dent the highly valued opening week revenue. If the marketing tactic makes money this time, Fox will likely use the recently licensed titles to Asimov's Foundation novels to market more unrelated films.

Toyota's new robot

Toyota's new robot 12/31/2003 02:27 PM
It's still awhile off, but Toyota's planning to introduce a new humanoid robot at the Aichi World Exposition in 2005 that will be able to...

Feb 7th is Love Your Robot Day!

Feb 7th is Love Your Robot Day! 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
I was looking in the Dallas Morning News (paper edition) this morning and they had a February Calendar and guess what was on February 7th? Yes, February 7th is "Love your Robot Day." Perhaps that's why so many robot competitions happen on February 7th? :-) What started Feb 7th being Love your robot day? I haven't a clue but here's an ecard site to help you share... CyberKisses

Robot roll out

Robot roll out 04/29/2004 10:25 AM

Guido van Robot 1.0

Guido van Robot 1.0 08/29/2004 04:16 PM
GvR is an interactive, introductory programming language.

Web robot generator

Web robot generator 02/11/2004 04:33 PM
Scientific article about "Sight" is in press.

Barhand: A Robot that Tends the Bar

Barhand: A Robot that Tends the Bar 06/05/2005 11:13 PM
Just when you thought we'd run out of stories about robot hands, Roland Piquepaille writes, "If you are in Glasgow next week, be sure to visit the Garage, one of its largest clubs, and order a beer from the new assistant bartender. The Barhand vending machine will give you a bottle of beer with its electronic robotic hand. In Young Scot set for share in millions from robot barman, the Sunday Herald reports that Michael Bowes, a 23-year old entrepreneur, is installing the first robotic bartender, built by Japanese company Fuji. Bowes has exclusive rights to sell the robot and expects to generate sales of about $200 million within five years. Of course, some people are concerned that the Barhand could deliver beers to people already drunk, but Bowes insists that by reducing queues, people will only buy one drink at a time instead of picking several from a real bartender.". For more on Barhand the robot barman see Roland's blog.

Robot Origami

Robot Origami 05/25/2004 11:37 AM
New Scientist reports on the graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University we've linked to previously who built a robot that can make simple origami constructions. The work is aimed at developing robotic systems that can manipulate various materials encountered in daily life. From researcher Devin Balkcom's site:

"Why origami?  Origami is a fresh challenge for the field of robotic manipulation.  Paper is flexible; robots are best at manipulating rigid things.  Even if we model origami as an articulated rigid body (by building our origami out of really stiff cardboard with hinges along creases), it still has a complicated mechanical structure."  Link

Robot Revolution!

Robot Revolution! 07/27/2004 01:18 PM
Here's a gallery of Joe Alterio's agitprop for the Robo-Equality Party. Digital prints on archival paper are $40 to $100 depending on the size. Link (Thanks, Lin dsay!)

Octopus Robot

Octopus Robot 04/22/2004 10:44 AM
Boingboing reader LVX23 says:

Check out this cool "autonomous wheeled climbing robot" from the French Autonomous Systems Lab. They call it the "octopus". Now if only they could hack a humvee body on top...

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Update: RoBOT 1.1

Update: RoBOT 1.1 09/13/2004 10:32 AM
RoBOT is a web-based services platform that offers remote printing services for on-demand ticket printing.

I, Robot (2004)

I, Robot (2004) 07/19/2004 09:29 AM

Robot Survivor

Robot Survivor 06/02/2004 05:28 AM
Hmm, A Restart

nandBot IRC Robot

nandBot IRC Robot 04/24/2004 12:52 PM
nandBot 0.51 released!

Robot librarian

Robot librarian 07/21/2004 11:20 AM
Researchers at Universitat Jaume I in Spain are designing a robot librarian of sorts. The three-wheeled bot listens for verbal book requests, heads to the approximate location of the title on a shelf, and uses digital cameras to read the spines. The toughest challenge is engineering a grasper with "fingernails" to pull out the book, Professor Angel del Pobil told the BBC:

"It is mimicking the way we manipulate our hands. We have constant feedback from tactile sensors, so it is moving very slowly. In the first experiments, the books really got damaged because it was pressing too hard. Now it touches gently."

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Robot Parade

Robot Parade 11/05/2003 11:37 PM
Yay! Rambling fangirl post! Ye have been warned.

Guido van Robot 0.9.9

Guido van Robot 0.9.9 06/04/2004 11:04 AM
GvR is an interactive, introductory programming language.

IBM System to Model Global Warming

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