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Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this related news {inclusive of video link]: “Using a cutting edge nanotechnology, researchers at MIT have created a robotic prototype that could autonomously navigate the surface of the ocean to collect surface oil and process it on site. The system, called Seaswarm, is a fleet …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 27, 2010: The Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy “In sum, the pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed somewhat in recent months, in part because of slower-than-expected growth in consumer spending, as well as continued …
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: “The bottom line from todays Commerce Department report on gross domestic product (GDP) is that the economy is growing far too slowly to reduce unemployment and it is still too early to declare that the recovery is on solid footing. The recovery could definitely use a boost from further …
UK Office for National Statistics: GDP increased by 1.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2010, revised up from 1.1 per cent. GDP in the second quarter of 2010 is now 1.7 per cent higher than the second quarter of 2009. Output of the production industries remained unrevised at 1.0 per cent in the …
Fyfe, J. C., N. P. Gillett, and D. W. J. Thompson (2010), Comparing variability and trends in observed and modelled global-mean surface temperature, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L16802, oi:10.1029/2010GL044255. “The observed evolution of the global-mean surface temperature over the twentieth century reflects the combined influences of natural variations and anthropogenic forcing, and it is a …
