Climate Change

  • The right way to do solar power

    Ralph Maughan

    Don’t take up huge swaths of land- I found this video that shows solar power underway with a deemphasis on remote solar collection in land-destroying mega-farm and vast transmission lines to electricity load centers. Orchards of the sun on space.com.  Let’s hope Obama will go this route. Not only is it better for our environment,…

  • Some livestock groups panic over rumors of a tax on cow's methane emissions

    Ralph Maughan

    Hopefully this tax is not just a rumor- Farmer’s Freak about Potential ‘Cow Tax’ on Cows’ Methane Emission. WWP blog. Methane is 26 times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide and cows belch and fart a tremendous amount of it. Feedlots could capture it, however, and turn it into much less polluting energy…

  • Longtime Head of House Energy Panel Is Ousted

    Ralph Maughan

    Clean air champion Henry Waxman will be installed- John Dingell of Michigan has chaired the powerful Energy and Commerce committee for many years (when the Democrats have controlled the House). This powerful committee has jurisdiction of the Clean Air Act as well as many other matters. He has been the “Big 3” auto’s point man…

  • Bush's seven deadly environmental sins

    Ralph Maughan

    How Bush made a mockery of the nation’s environmental laws and values — and what Obama must do to get us back on track- Story in Salon.com (Salon Magazine). By Katharine Mieszkowski The article doesn’t just speak of Bush sin, but how Obama can redeem on the environment.

  • Global Warming Is Killing Frogs And Salamanders In Yellowstone Park, Researchers Say

    Ralph Maughan

    Disappearance of ponds in Yellowstone lead to great loss of frogs and salamanders in Yellowstone- I guess we would call them “old-timers” now — folks like myself — but I remember there used to be many more ponds on the Northern Range of the Park. From the road the loss is especially apparent near Junction…

  • Idaho conservation politics: Minnick and Sali disagree on climate change

    Ralph Maughan

    Representative Sali says no human caused climate change- Democrat Walt Minnick is challenging one-term Republican U.S. Representative in Idaho’s first congressional district. Polls show the race to be close. Rocky Barker has a report this morning on a clear difference (there are many differences, but this applies to the topics commonly discussed on this forum).…

  • Clean coal is an oxymoron

    Ralph Maughan

    On TV news tonight I see Sarah Palin is getting ready to blast Joe Biden and Barrick Obama for opposing “clean coal,” although I noted Obama has said he does support it. He shouldn’t. Coal is inherently dirty. “Clean coal” is simply use of coal in a way that is not so dirty as other…

  • Palin Wins 2008 Rubber Dodo Award

    Brian Ertz

    Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin Wins Center for Biological Diversity’s 2008 Rubber Dodo Award “Governor Palin has waged a deceptive, dangerous, and costly battle against the polar bear,” said Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. “Her position on global warming is so extreme, she makes Dick Cheney look like an Al…

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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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