Last week Drudge hyped a story about how the manufacture of flat screen TVs was causing global warming. Naturally this was seized by denialists to argue that if everything causes global warming there is no point in doing anything about CO2. The story struck me as a beat up -- 4,000 tons of NF3 isn't much compared with 30 billion tons of CO2, but it's much worse than I expected. Eli Rabett has the details on why NF3 emissions are basically non-existent.
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Blogging has been a low priority lately, partly because there's been too much other stuff going on, and partly because I haven't had much enthusiasm for it. The end of the semester is always a bit of a grind.
In the rather fanciful position below, white is to move and force checkmate in six moves:
Nurture offers us ...how far our understanding of climate change has come in the past twelve months. But its a bit thin, especially for
I picked a charming helpmate for you this week, composed by Edgar Holladay in 1978. He was especially well known for lightweight problems where the pieces formed a recognizable shape on the board. This one looks roughly like an arrow. The stipulation calls for helpmate in eight:
added some more detail just now. Thanks for the link