Be f***ed now, or be f***ed later. If you factor in the external cost coal is pretty expensive. But, those cost will have to be paid by someone else. That's good business. http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind...

This is a model based study, for some species of coral, with certain caveats with regards to sea temperature. I'd be very careful to use this study to dismiss broadly the effect of acidification and sea temperature change on coral. It is interesting, of course, and not surprising that some species can adapt, but this study tell us little about the effects of acidification in the large. Thanks for the link.

So it's all a conspiracy? Alright, I'll weigh the arguments from a peer reviewed paper in a well regarded journal a little more than some random commenter on Slashdot. No offense.

What is false? That acidification impairs the calcification in crustaceans? This is pretty basic chemistry. What would there be in the river sediments to compensate?

Well, there are certainly credible scientists that assert that it does happen at several sites around the world. This might not cover every single coral reef in the world, but it I'd say the phenomenon is well documented and has had a massively detrimental and well-documented impact already. http://science.sciencemag.org/...

One of the very first programming languages I ever used when I was in primary school was HyperTalk. I later learned C, but I make money using LabView!

For Mac I like the LeanCalc wrapper for the calc library. It's similar to Spotlight, but you won't get all the search results, which can be a bit annoying, and you can have several lines of computations and save the computations to a file!

The article states that the equipment is not for finding cancer (polyps) in the colon, but for finding cancer in the esophagus.

I worked as an intern one summer for a company developing a new type robotic colonoscope. As far as I understood, any known technical solutions for inspecting the colon still requires something to actively inserted into your rear end. It's very painful because the colon will need to stretch in order to proved the necessary reaction force for the colonoscope to bend. You can apparently do just about anything with the colon without feeling pain, except stretching it.