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According to a editorial in The Wall Street Journal, global warming is a problem "a few centuries off." Developing…

In the current White House, giving lobbyists (such as Mark Rey, a former timber company official) responsibility for overseeing public lands is business as usual. But when Philip Cooney, a top official on the White House Council on Environmental Quality, was caught rewriting scientific reports on the threat of global warming and resigned, supposedly toContinue reading “White House Feels the Heat”

The Forest Service in Southern California has slightly modified its controversial Adventure Pass policy, no longer requiring the pass to be posted on cars parked at trailheads that have no facilities. "Fee opponents have some reason to celebrate.  Their efforts have led to a number of back country trailheads being dropped from the fee program,"Continue reading “The “New” Policy — Forest Service Fees for 95% of Visitors”

Last week a White House official named Philip Cooney, proven to have rewritten scientific reports on global warming by The New York Times, abrupt resigned. A White House spokesperson said he had accrued vacation time and wanted to spend it with his family. This week it was revealed he will go to work for ExxonMobil,Continue reading “Henhouse Fox Returns to Lair”

Two days after being revealed as an official inside the White House who rewrote scientific research reports on climate change in 2002 and 2003, lawyer Philip Cooney resigns. A White House press secretary said he wanted "to take the summer off to spend the time with his family.” His departure was "completely unrelated" to theContinue reading “Fox Misses His Family”

In a front-page story in today’s New York Times , the invaluable Andy Revkin shows exactly how the Bush adminstration White House treats news it doesn’t want to hear on climate change. Here’s a paragraph from the U.S. Global Climate Research Program’s report in late 2002: Warming will also cause reductions in mountain glaciers andContinue reading “Watching the Fox in the Henhouse”

A big oak tree — nearly three feet wide at the base, and about forty feet high — split and dropped three-quarters of its trunk in our yard last week. Our neighbor Chris Nottoli came out to look at the massive remains on the ground that night and shook his head. Just a day beforeContinue reading “If an Oak Tree Falls in Your Yard, Will It Kill You? Or Damage Your Property?”

In Yosemite, temperatures in the 80’s and rain on the snowpack threatens flooding. In Colorado, similarly, temperatures fifteen and twenty degrees above normal are melting the snowpack: water levels haven’t been this high in twenty years, according to one kayaker. And on the East Coast, it’s been a gloomy spring. The third coldest ever, accordingContinue reading “What They Say about the Weather, and What They Don’t Say”

Nuclear energy is in the headlines again, because John McCain and Joseph Lieberman are soon to float a bill proposing massive subsidies to major corporations — notably General Electric — that want to build nuclear energy plants again. Some notable enviros, such as Steward Brand, support the idea. Others, such as the National Resources DefenseContinue reading ““Too Boring for TV””

If the on-the-ground news of melting ice and permafrost in the Artic wasn’t proof enough, today a team of scientists led by James Hansen at NASA released a study comparing precise measurements of ocean temperatures against projections based on climatological models. The measurements, taken over a period of ten years, showed that the earth isContinue reading “Big News: Global Ocean Warming Proven. NASA Scientists call for action now.”