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Category Archives: Environmental issues
House Republicans Agree: Global Warming Doesn’t Exist
(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
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
Posted in Environmental issues, literature
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The Democrats Are Now The Home Of Market-Based Solutions
(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
Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., crossposted on TADA, Environmental issues, In the news
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When You Gaze Into the Abyss
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
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
Posted in Environmental issues, Katrina
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If you can't switch to vegetarian, switch to chicken
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
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
Posted in Environmental issues, In the news, International issues
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Global Warming? Never Heard of It.
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
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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