Environment/weather Archive:

Last night’s Daily Show had a great bit about “egregious, willful safety violations” by BP, compared to only 19 by other companies. (starts around minute 9)

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Looking around for the original data brought us the below. Note: this is for refineries, not offshore drilling sites:

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Ok, this one is pretty stupid, but I really admire the art transitions in the sky.

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(via)

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This one is pretty comprehensive, to say the least. (via)

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Filter by state, year, and type of disaster. (note: you can zoom by selecting the arrow pointer tool at the bottom). The number of disasters has apparently increased over time because we’ve changed the definition. Related story.

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A 7 part series from the WSJ:

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Enter your own leak rate (nobody knows what it really is) and see what the running total is. (via)

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Overlay the spill onto your own location with this googlemaps mashup:

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View energy use for various appliances — in dollars/watts/gas, over different periods and in different states.

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Some cool “mind-maps” of things you can do about global warming, your health, and connecting with nature. Simplistic, but appealing and effective. (via)

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Nola.com seems to be the place to go for the most current, accurate, and in depth information:

Animated map/timeline of oil spread and forecast:

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They included a link to NOAA’s latest trajectory forecasts:
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Oil boom deployment:
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There are a lot of these out there, but most of them are pretty crappy. This one is very well done – data dense, yet easy to read.

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A 2009 survey identified about 600 labels that denote some definition of "environmentally friendly" worldwide, including more than 80 on products sold in the United States.

Related article.

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Can’t help but think this could have been visualized better. (via)

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