Category Archives: Environmental issues

House Republicans Agree: Global Warming Doesn’t Exist

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Ampersand

(Transcript of video here.) From The Hill: House Republicans rejected amendments offered Tuesday by Democrats that called on Congress to accept the scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, it is caused in large part by human activity and it … Continue reading →

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Three Poems Up on Poets For Living Waters

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I am late publicizing the fact that three of my poems, “Like This,” “Free Radicals” and “Empty Rhetoric,” were published on Poets for Living Waters. Here is “Free Radicals:” Rowboats on the pond: random particles dancing to laws they couldn’t … Continue reading →

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The Democrats Are Now The Home Of Market-Based Solutions

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Ampersand

(Crossposted on “Alas” and on “TADA.”) In an op-ed in the Boston Globe, Richard Schmalensee and Robert Stavins (of MIT and Harvard, respectively) lament the Republican Party’s newfound opposition to market-based environmental solutions. LAST WEEK, the Senate abandoned its latest … Continue reading →

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Brief Debate about Nuclear Power

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Ampersand
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When You Gaze Into the Abyss

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Jeff Fecke

Like most people, I’m horrified by the ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. I hate BP for their half-hearted response to the crisis. I think the Obama administration has limited options for what they can do to stop the … Continue reading →

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Not Katrina

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Jeff Fecke

This is not the finest hour of the Obama administration. The spreading oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is an environmental catastrophe, and the Obama administration’s initial willingness to trust BP’s word on the severity of the accident wasted … Continue reading →

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If you can't switch to vegetarian, switch to chicken

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Ampersand

The worse thing about arguments like this one at the EPA blog, and this Post article by Ezra Klein, is that they ignore the large environmental impact differences between eating different types of meat. Both articles argue – correctly – … Continue reading →

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Boom Goes the Dynamite

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Jeff Fecke

Humans are everywhere on this planet. We have cities on six continents and outposts on a seventh. We live from the frozen depths of Antarctica and Siberia to the damp, sticky tropics to the middle the desert — and everywhere … Continue reading →

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Global Warming? Never Heard of It.

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Jeff Fecke

So The Blogger Formerly Known as Hindrocket noticed something the other day. Why, it’s a bit of a cool summer here in Minnesota! Which, you know, is sort of true, at least today — it’s a bit chilly for mid-July, … Continue reading →

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America Chooses Tyranny

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Jeff Fecke

Of course, by “Tyranny,” I mean we passed a fairly weak cap-and-trade carbon emission bill through the House of Representatives that will, hopefully, mitigate the damage from what could be the worst environmental catastrophe since the last ice age. But … Continue reading →

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