Weird. Read closely, it almost sounds as if the House Speaker, a Republican, is admitting that climate change is happening, and we need to deal with it, but we can’t use pollution control regulations.
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Chamber of Commerce: CO2 regs too costly to economy
"Stop the EPA from hijacking the economy!" So says the US Chamber of Commerce, and claims that the Obama administration's rules on power emissions will cost $50 billion. Jim Morin sees it differently. After all, the Sandy clean-up alone cost US taxpayers $100 billion, according to those wild-haired radicals at USA Today.
New climate regs just like Obamacare (or not)
The Obama administration takes a stand on carbon pollution, and calls for a 30% cut in power plant emissions by 2030. For environmentalists, this is heartening news, but what does it mean politically? To Science, the "give states choices" method sounds a lot like Obamacare: That more complex approach makes the new rules somewhat similarContinue reading “New climate regs just like Obamacare (or not)”
Happy birthday Rachel Carson! Says Google
One of the most heartening of Google's doodles ever (for me at least) comes today, in honor of Rachel Carson's 107th birthday. The inspiration she drew from nature — and the questions nature pushed her to ask of us — are with as today as much or more than ever. We still haven't become matureContinue reading “Happy birthday Rachel Carson! Says Google”
A Nostradamus for today: 1978 forecast of Antarctic melt
On a recent book tour, promoting his delightful new memoir Little Failure, the mordantly funny essayist/novelist Gary Schteyngart — who in his last book predicted an economic crash, urban chaos, and the rise of a movement that sounded very much like Occupy — joked that he was "the Nostradamus of two weeks from now." TheContinue reading “A Nostradamus for today: 1978 forecast of Antarctic melt”
Why the experts think the boy child will come this year
We should be properly skeptical of any image I suppose, especially in these days of Photoshop, and when an image purports to describe a before and after in colors demand to know even how the the satellite data was visualized, the colors chosen…but wow, this image knocks me off my feet, and at a gutContinue reading “Why the experts think the boy child will come this year”
Why are we having Santa Ana conditions in May?
Just got another Santa Ana winds warning via phone app. Winds expected through Monday. The umpteenth such warning in the last few weeks. National meteorologist Dr. Jeff Masters laid out the harsh weather experienced in Southern California this week already: Record May heat sent temperatures soaring above 100° in much of Southern California on Wednesday,Continue reading “Why are we having Santa Ana conditions in May?”
The blindness of GOP climate denial: USA Today
As those radicals at USA Today put it: The National Climate Assessment, released this week, adds to a mounting and overwhelming body of evidence that the effects of rising temperatures are here and now — and that even higher sea levels, more extreme weather and water shortages are in our future if nothing is done. AddressingContinue reading “The blindness of GOP climate denial: USA Today”
What we can do about climate change: the Monarch
A funny thing about climate change: contrary to popular opinion, individuals can make a difference, here and there, for other people and other species. Example? The Monarch Butterly. Ask the experts at Monarch Watch, the leading conservation group devoted to this iconic species: In California, Monarchs aggregate in more than 25 roosting sites along theContinue reading “What we can do about climate change: the Monarch”
What moved Obama to act on climate change: the disappearance of the CA snowpack
According to a great story in the Washington Post by veteran environmental reporter Juliet Eilperin, this is the image that shocked Obama in February, and moved him to act to slow climate change, in spite of opposition in Congress. Missing in action: the California snowpack, on which tens of millions of us depend. Eilperin writes:Continue reading “What moved Obama to act on climate change: the disappearance of the CA snowpack”
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