As reported by DeSmog Blog, Climate Progress, Brad Johnson, and now the New York Times, internal strategy documents leaked from the climate change denier Heartland Institute flat-out state that: At present we sponsor the NIPCC [Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Chnage] to undermine the official United Nation's IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] reports andContinue reading “How to “undermine” climate research with cash payments”
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A huge smokestack of war: Vaclav Havel
As a boy, I lived for a time in the country and I clearly remember an experience from those days: I used to walk school in a nearby village along a cart track through the fields and, on the way, see on the horizon a huge smokestack of war. It spewed dense brown smoke andContinue reading “A huge smokestack of war: Vaclav Havel”
How far we have come on global warming — not!
Yesterday Jason Margolis for The World had an absolutely first-class analysis of the presidential politics of global warming. He began with the GOP front-runner's silence on the issue, which Margolis contrasted against the GOP candidate of four years ago. Here's what John McCain said about climate change while running for President as a Republican: “It’sContinue reading “How far we have come on global warming — not!”
Ormond beach: the beautiful problem
My cover story this week in the Reporter, on "the broken mirror" of Ormond Beach. This is about 1500 acores along about two miles of beach in South Oxnard, astonishingly rich in shorelife, somehow trying to hold its beauty and vigor amidst monocultural agriculture and heavy industry. And here's a picture I took, of aContinue reading “Ormond beach: the beautiful problem”
Dozens of tornadoes devastate the South — in January
A rare mid-winter brace of hurricanes devastates the South; 150-mph winds recorded. Two dozen or so tornadoes sweeps through four states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina — killing six people, injuring a hundred or more, and leaving countless others homeless. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyContinue reading “Dozens of tornadoes devastate the South — in January”
Epic win for greens on Keystone XL: Dave Roberts
The Grist editor writes: For a year now, courageous activists, Midwestern farmers, unions, and indigenous groups have rallied in an unprecedented display of public opposition to the destructive Keystone XL pipeline proposal. That grassroots movement pushed us to the brink of victory — and today, it seems, the GOP has pushed us over the line.Continue reading “Epic win for greens on Keystone XL: Dave Roberts”
Romney 11/22/05: For and against climate pact on same day
The Internet is an astonishing thing: this evening the the entirety of the book of research into Mitt Romney's record, as compiled by the staff for his bitter GOP rival John McCain's staff in 2008, hit the intertubes. The 200-page document included this gem of a flip-flop on climate change, as reported in the Boston Globe:Continue reading “Romney 11/22/05: For and against climate pact on same day”
Thinking about climate change: Tom Toles
For the beginning of the new year, Toles had this to offer: Note the tense he employs — the past.
A persistent La Niña leads to a long stretch of dryness
This year national weather and climate forecasters said they saw a La Niña condition developing in the Pacific, and promised dryness, as they did last year. This year, for virtually all of California, and much of the nation as well, they've been right. Here's the drought forecast, in a graphic from NOAA [National Oceanographic and AtmosphericContinue reading “A persistent La Niña leads to a long stretch of dryness”
Take Shelter — the birds are falling (again)
2012 opens with news of blackbirds falling dead from the sky in Arkansas — again. Thousands of dead blackbirds rained down on a town in central Arkansas last New Year's Eve after revelers set off fireworks that spooked them from their roost, and officials were reporting a similar occurrence Saturday as 2012 approached. Police inContinue reading “Take Shelter — the birds are falling (again)”
Kit Stolz 