According to Toles, maybe not: Much as I dislike giving credit to a fake enviro like Thomas Friedman for writing about the environment, his column yesterday effectively made some important points no other nationally syndicated columnist has dared put forth, at least that I know of. The column is called Mother Nature's Dow: Mother NatureContinue reading “Climate Change: A Back-Burner Issue”
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How Do You Save A River? Easy. Make a Wetland…
The Environment Agency of the UK, after looking at climate models that predict a shocking 50-80% drop in river flows from the hard-rock west of England and Wales by 2050, are calling for drastic measures to maintain flows and species habitats. To wit (from the Telegraph): River flows across the country will be cut inContinue reading “How Do You Save A River? Easy. Make a Wetland…”
Climate Change and Drought: Quote of the Week
"Water will be the delivery mechanism of climate change in the West." (From Kathy Jacobs, who once managed water for the Tucson area, and until now headed up the Arizona Water Institute, which unfortunately is going down to budget cuts. Its work was backed by the outgoing governor Janet Napolitano: When she left to becomeContinue reading “Climate Change and Drought: Quote of the Week”
“A Crisis into a Catastrophe”: How to Frame the Economic Meltdown — and Global Warming
Tuesday Steven Chu, the newly-appointed Secretary of Energy, warned that if global warming is not slowed, California agriculture could be destroyed this century. He told the Los Angeles Times: California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act toContinue reading ““A Crisis into a Catastrophe”: How to Frame the Economic Meltdown — and Global Warming”
Barack, Your Climate Rhetoric Needs Work
I can't claim to be fully objective when it comes to Barack Obama, who is one of the best speakers I've ever heard, perhaps the best. But perhaps my fandom will make the following point a little sharper. Mr. President, when you speak about the climate, you really haven't found your way. When you speakContinue reading “Barack, Your Climate Rhetoric Needs Work”
Climate Change: No Moderates Allowed
As Martin Parry, who supervised the impacts and assessments section of the massive Climate Change 2007 (Physical Science edition) IPCC report writes (here) in this weekend’s Guardian, it’s shockingly difficult to find moderates on the subject of climate change. One tends to have scientists and advocates warning that if we don’t take drastic action immediately,Continue reading “Climate Change: No Moderates Allowed”
“World’s Greatest Polluter” Has Fun
From the Times of London (here) on the unsuccessful G-8 effort to reduce carbon emissions. The G8 summit concluded on a light-hearted note, as President Bush bade farewell to world leaders with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s greatest polluter.” The other statesmen laughed, at first nervously, and then more enthusiastically when they realised MrContinue reading ““World’s Greatest Polluter” Has Fun”
The End of Progress — in Poetry as in Life
A couple of years ago the poet Tony Hoagland published (here) an essay about the allusive nature of most modern American poetry, in which narrative — storytelling — had fallen by the wayside. Hoagland wasn’t happy about that, but he understood why it had happened. He quoted the great Carolyn Forche: Our age lacks theContinue reading “The End of Progress — in Poetry as in Life”
“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”
“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””
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