We’re all climate-change idiots
That, friends and neighbors, is the headline over this NY Times op-ed piece I just grabbed from the paper’s Web site. It’s a good read and I don’t have much argument at all against the central thesis...
View ArticleLoading the climate dice
I lived just across Lake Champlain from where I now call home for three years in the late 80s. Our house on Plattsburgh Air Force Base (base housing) sat atop a bluff overlooking the lake. I remember...
View ArticleNew gas-mileage standards saving oil, cutting emissions?
Higher fuel efficiency standards will cut oil use and greenhouse gas emissions. That’s the gist of this article. But it is what is beneath the headline that really makes a difference as far as the...
View ArticleThe social cost of carbon: Do the math
Of one thing we can be sure. Continued, unregulated emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, will impose some pretty terrific and awful costs on the U.S. of A. and the rest of planet...
View ArticleClimate study: Western wildfires burniing longer, bigger
More depressing news in this article for lovers of Wild America. But don’t count on the “inside-the-beltway” crowd to do a damn thing. After all, they’re just too busy tallying up their re-election...
View Article‘Stop the War on Coal Act’ passes
This is more evidence, for those who care about Earth, of who not to vote for in November.
View ArticleNo talk about climate and guns in presidential talkfests
So, one of the biggest factors ever in the world of conservation goes on without any bluster at all from presidential wannabe Mitt Romney and already-President Barack Obama. This article has the...
View Article2 views of a superstorm in context of climate change
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/two-views-of-a-superstorm-in-climate-context/
View ArticleNature (wild nature) votes last
More succinct words here from columnist Timothy Egan. But will Mitt and Paul give a damn?
View ArticlePlants will be hard put to handle greenhouse gases, scientists say
Another telling bit of evidence is outlined in this newspaper narrative:...
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