A wonderfully warm, funny piece from Orion and Nicole McLelland. The can’t miss quote: "So where do you pee?" I asked Brian. "It’s especially good for the trees, if you’d like to do them the service, Dan," he said, turning his gray-bearded grin toward my companion. I waited, but he didn’t address me. I appealedContinue reading “Extreme Enviro Bathrooms”
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
The Bush Plan: Burn All the Fossil Fuels as Fast as You Can
Tim Barnett, a leading oceanographer just retired from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, this Monday gave a talk to a convention of fire ecologists in San Diego called Future Climate of Earth: A Sneak Preview. Barnett began by saying that he had seven grandkids, and he didn’t like to think about the world they were goingContinue reading “The Bush Plan: Burn All the Fossil Fuels as Fast as You Can”
McCain Challenges Bush Admin Official on Global Warming Data
Numerous, even countless, examples of the Bush administration’s eagerness to shove the global warming issue under the rug can be cited, but one of the most obvious has been its flat-out refusal to have NOAA file the decadal data, as required by the act that authorized the US Global Change Research Program. Yesterday John McCainContinue reading “McCain Challenges Bush Admin Official on Global Warming Data”
Depression: Beyond a Little Pill
Probably the best book I’ve read this year is Andrew Solomon’s The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which begins as a look at the New Yorker’s writer’s horrifying and almost inexplicable struggles with depression after publishing a novel. The book becomes a years-long exploration into all aspects of the disease: medical, historical, psychological, personal,Continue reading “Depression: Beyond a Little Pill”
A Heated Question
From Stuart Carlson at the Washington Post:
Sunday Morning on the Planet: Fall Colors
The fall colors have yet to show in Southern California…and yes, you wise guys, SoCal does have fall colors. Specifically, in the sycamores and black walnuts, both of which are abundant in Ventura County. But in the Midwest, where my good friend August Jennewein now lives, they have arrived. Aug, an excellent photographer, took thisContinue reading “Sunday Morning on the Planet: Fall Colors”
Pouring over the Polls, Obsessively
Reading the polls is a perilous business for an enviro in this country, because Americans who talk to pollsters say they rate protecting the environment highly, but frequently fail to back up that concern with their votes. According to a recent CBS/NY Times poll, nearly three-quarters of the country believes in global warming, and respondentsContinue reading “Pouring over the Polls, Obsessively”
Rove Repudiated: Bush Defiant
The cartoon below captures the political moment with Tom Toles’s usual prescience. But it’s worth pointing out: On this topic, as on so many others (global warming, anyone?) the experts have been vindicated. The Bush White House, which seems to take pride in stubbornly refusing to face facts, as a consequence ends up just lookingContinue reading “Rove Repudiated: Bush Defiant”
Is Climate Change Bad? Let’s Talk
James Annan is a scientist I would classify as a climatological moderate, because he thinks that what is known as sensitivity to atmospheric C02 is a little overestimated, so he forecasts temps to rise into a somewhat lower range (about 3C) than the IPCC estimates (between 2.5 and 4.1C). He drops in a couple ofContinue reading “Is Climate Change Bad? Let’s Talk”
Biggest Liars of 2006 Midterms: the Richard M. Nixon Award
"Big Lie" in the National Socialist sense of the term; that is, "a lie "so colossal" no one would believe anyone could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."" The award is named after Richard M. Nixon, the Republican who left the White House in utter disgrace, but had a long and veryContinue reading “Biggest Liars of 2006 Midterms: the Richard M. Nixon Award”
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