Fishing Co-op.
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Position: 44 54.900 N 062 31.509 W
- Alongside Sheet Harbor Fishing Co-op wharf This morning we moved from the public wharf to the
Fishing Co-op wharf to top up our water tanks, it also had the advantage of
being closer to town which allowed us to more easily refuel and re-provision
with fresh supplies. This afternoon I completed a couple of boat chores
and now Paul is making a pizza for dinner. Favorable winds are forecast
for tomorrow. The plan is to get a good night’s sleep then get
underway early tomorrow. The people here at the Fishing Co-op have been
incredibly friendly, we have been made to feel very welcome, exceeding the warm
sunshine we have enjoyed over the past two days. Science 21 April 2006: News of the Week CLIMATOLOGY: Richard A. Kerr Two new studies that
combine independent lines of evidence agree that climate sensitivity--how much
a given increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide will warm the world--is at least
moderately strong, making a really scorching warming appear unlikely but
reinforcing the likelihood that continued emissions will fuel a substantial
warming in this century. Economics:
the human science which studies the relationship between scarce resources and
the various uses which compete for these resources. A price
mechanism is a system where the economic decisions in the economy
are reached through the workings of the market: changes in the relative
scarcity of goods and services are reflected in changes in prices and these
price changes produce incentives for producers to reallocate available
resources towards reducing market shortages and surpluses. Science 7 April
2006: Vol.
312, no. 5770 No Pain, No GainSocietal behaviour is complex and multifaceted. One complicated question is the conditions under which we cooperate with others for mutual gain. Experimental results using a public goods game suggest that the threat of costly punishment of free-riders by altruistically minded souls suffices to maintain group-wide compliance. Gurerk et al. (p. 108; see the Perspective by Henrich) show that if allowed to choose freely, individuals first elect to join a sanction-free game where punishment is not permitted. As successive rounds are played, they come to appreciate that cooperation yields greater rewards, so they switch to the sanctioning regime where punishment (which makes free-riding costly) is allowed and themselves become active monitors of compliance.The Glaciers melting twice as fast as feared, study finds
By Shankar Vedantam in GREENLAND'S glaciers are
melting into the sea twice as quickly as previously believed, the result of a warming
trend that renders obsolete predictions of how quickly the oceans will rise
over the next century, scientists said. The new data comes from satellite imagery and gives fresh urgency to
worries about the role of human activity in global warming. The Greenland data
is mirrored by findings from "This study underscores the need to take swift, meaningful actions
at home and abroad to address climate change," said Vicki Arroyo, a
director at the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change. |