Back in the l990’s, which seem more than ever like the good ol’ days, the great environmental writer Michael Pollan said we should Abolish the White House Lawn. Now he faces the most vexing aspect of greenhouse gas emissions — what’s in it for me? — head on. In The New York Times green issue,Continue reading “Abolish the Lawn: Plant a Garden”
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ABC News: Planet Less Important Than Flag Pin
Today The New York Times introduces a new columnist, and a new idea of a columnist — a graphics columnist. And Charles Blow lives up to the billing by succinctly making an important point that his far-better-paid media peers at ABC and other television networks cannot seem to grasp. (Perhaps living in TV land makesContinue reading “ABC News: Planet Less Important Than Flag Pin”
“Waves of Extinction” Forecast From Global Warming
From a speech given by John Holdren, the director of the Woods Hole Institute, one of the premier ocean and climate study groups in the world today. In an hour-long talk he called on scientists to tithe 10% of their work to solving the energy/climate problem and warned that if we do not change course:Continue reading ““Waves of Extinction” Forecast From Global Warming”
“Humility and Remorse”: A Southern Baptist Conversion on Climate Change
Jonathan Merritt is a young theologian in Atlanta who broke into the national conversation this month by championing within the conservative Southern Baptist faith the declaration of a new set of principles regarding creation care and climate change. While noting continuing debate on some global warming questions, the declaration made a point of stating thatContinue reading ““Humility and Remorse”: A Southern Baptist Conversion on Climate Change”
“Tearing a Page out of the Bible”
James Merritt, a twenty-five-year-old theology student, used this phrase to an AP reporter to explain how a professor inspired him to support a movement among his fellow Southern Baptists to help preserve the traditional climate. His professor had compared destroying God’s creation to "tearing a page out of the Bible." "That struck me. It brokeContinue reading ““Tearing a Page out of the Bible””
The Wheel Turns — Against Gasoline
Shocked by high gas prices? You’re not alone: according to the lead story in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times, prices are at a record high. The gravity-defying price of oil shot through another barrier Monday by briefly touching $103.95 a barrel in New York trading, the highest cost ever for black gold even after adjusting forContinue reading “The Wheel Turns — Against Gasoline”
“We Are Now On the Hairy Edge…”
For a modest man, Dr. James Hansen, the Cassandra of global warming, has become quiet fiery. To wit (from his most recent letter to Angela Merkel, prime minister of Germany, on why she must not allow coal plant construction): …we must have a prompt moratorium on the construction of coal-fired power plants that do notContinue reading ““We Are Now On the Hairy Edge…””
Denier Quote of the Day
"The American people have bought hook, line, and sinker this hoax of manmade global warming. Carbon dioxide, which we exhale, is a pollutant? How stupid can anybody be to believe this? The Good Lord created us!" –Rush Limbaugh
Denier of the Day
"The current age of global warming politics will certainly end with a whimper once a few consecutive years of cooling are recorded. Why should we expect such cooling? Because the forces that caused warming and cooling in the past, before the advent of industrial civilization, are still at work." Holman Jenkins, Jr., Wall Street JournalContinue reading “Denier of the Day”
Global Warming: A Hopeless Case?
The embattled Los Angeles Times has put a tough reporter on the climate change beat: Alan Zarembo, who in his latest missive on the eve of the Bali conference, lays out exactly how ineffective the Kyoto Protocols has been at reducing carbon emissions world-wide. All true, which gives certain right-wingers great pleasure. In the NationalContinue reading “Global Warming: A Hopeless Case?”
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