I just love this picture from the Climate Camp protest against the expansion of Heathrow. As countless smart people are saying–Bill McKibben, Al Gore, Mike Tidwell–we need demonstrations to save our climate. Here’s one from the UK worth remembering:
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Good News Friday: Return of the Cape Fear Shiner
"The Cape Fear Shiner is a yellowish minnow with black stripes, pointed fins and a hard-luck past.” So writes Taft Wireback for the News-Record of Greensboro, North Carolina. He goes on to tell how bringing down a dam helped bring back two "relict populations" of this small fish. It’s a wonderful lede, and an inspiringContinue reading “Good News Friday: Return of the Cape Fear Shiner”
Experts Criticize Bush Administration on Climate Science
A scientific panel today released a report critical of the Bush administration’s handling of global warming science, according to Andrew Revkin at the New York Times. Of the $1.7 billion spent each year on climate research, the report said only about $25-$30 million a year is going to studies of impacts on human affairs. TheContinue reading “Experts Criticize Bush Administration on Climate Science”
Urban Rangers Invade Malibu
A story I wanted to write, but poet Dana Goodyear beat me to it, for the New Yorker.. The gray-shingled house belongs to the entertainment mogul David Geffen. In 2005, after losing a long legal fight, he opened the path to the public, and last Sunday the Los Angeles Urban Rangers convened some thirty peopleContinue reading “Urban Rangers Invade Malibu”
Seeing the Ice Melt — And Remembering It
A great graphic from ABC News. Don’t know if the idea came from the scientists or from the reporter Clayton Sandell, but the resulting story was excellent. And look at that pic! Er, image. (h/t: Sierra Club Compass)
Carbon Tax vs. Cap-and-Trade: WSJ Gets Specific
Finally a media outlet crunches the numbers on the two competing methods to reduce carbon emissions: a tax on carbon emissions, or a cap-and-trade proposals to compel action from business. I prefer the former because (if it included give-backs to the poor, who would suffer the most) a carbon tax would do the best jobContinue reading “Carbon Tax vs. Cap-and-Trade: WSJ Gets Specific”
Global Warming: Controversy becomes Common Sense
According to an informal poll taken by the Ojai Valley News, our recent heatwave is probably related to global warming. Scientists would be quick to point out that we cannot see climate patterns, which we measure in thirty-year spans, in weather, which will pass in days. But climatologists will concede that our heat waves areContinue reading “Global Warming: Controversy becomes Common Sense”
Looking At the Weather Today
From Toles, of course…
The Terror Myth in American History
Susan Faludi, one of the brainest of America’s leftists, brings forward a fascinating argument about the role of terror in American history. Thanks to the New York Times’ newfound willingness to blog, this op-ed from yesterday should be totally available to readers, and it’s definitely worth the five minutes. But here’s her central contention: Sept.Continue reading “The Terror Myth in American History”
Image of the Week: Northwest Passage Opens
For the first time in at least half a century, and likely far longer, a clear channel has opened through the Arctic ice, now visible even from space. From Eli Rabbet’s blog, with lots of amusing comments. (Update: a new report from NOAA based on twenty climate models and CO2 already in the atmosphere seesContinue reading “Image of the Week: Northwest Passage Opens”
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