Climate Change

  • Fox news boss orders reporters to always question climate change

    Ralph Maughan

    Fair and balanced! Their Washington Bureau news chief emailed them saying, “refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question.”  Apparently they would be expected to say “some scientists say there was an…

  • Oceans: Jellyfish replace fish in overfished waters

    Ralph Maughan

    Booming Jellyfish in Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean- Overfishing does not create waters with no fish.  The vaccum is replaced by billions of jellyfish. Jellyfish story in Science Daily

  • Clearing tropical forests is a lose-lose

    Ralph Maughan

    It releases a great deal of carbon and produces much less new food than more intensive use of existing croplands- Lose-lose . . . sounds like a Western land use issue. Clearing tropical forests is a lose-lose. Michael Marshall. New Scientist.

  • Stupid Goes Viral: Climate Zombies of HI, ID, MN, MT, OR, WY

    Ralph Maughan

    R L Miller’s post at Daily Kos looks at the Republican positions on climate science in six states, including Idaho. This is not a complete project. If you can add anything on candidates’ positions that would be interesting.  R L asked us for some help, but we were not able to give him much. Stupid…

  • Passing Prop. 23 would send California Reeling Backwards

    Ralph Maughan

    Billionaire tea party funders effort to kill CA emissions law- We posted about this repeal effort earlier, but a good article about the Koch Brothers by a California minister. Passing Prop. 23 would send California Reeling Backwards. Syndicated Columnist, Author, Pastor of the Resurrection Community Church Oakland, CA

  • Global Warming, Killer Bears?

    Brian Ertz

    Obama’s Abandonment of the West Doug Peacock continues to enrich the debate over grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem : Global Warming, Killer Bears? Doug Peacock, Counterpunch Biologists sometimes like to quibble that losing the grizzly because of the collapse of whitebark pine forests may be the least of our ecological worries. Ecosystems are, of…

  • Mass forest fires overwhelm part of Russia

    Ralph Maughan

    Russian fires unstoppable in abnormal heat- Russia blames fires on global warming. Moscow hits 100 degrees. New York Times. By John Collins Rudolf. Russia moves rockets as wildfires spread. Associated Press. Meanwhile summer forest fires are a bit below normal in the western United States, although air is getting is typical August haze or worse…

  • The truth about global warming (WaPO editorial)

    Ralph Maughan

    Two brand new government reports show overwhelming scientific case for global warming — and go out of the way to repudiate skeptics- The truth about global warming. Monday, August 2, 2010. Washington Post editorial. Meanwhile Rolling Stone has a great article on the sorry death of the Climate Bill (or better stated the death of…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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