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  • Nation’s Largest Sitka Spruce Dies In Oregon Storm

    Ralph Maughan

    The largest Sitka Spruce broke off in the latest severe storm to hit Oregon. This article tells of it and what happened with things that affect the environment during its 700 year life, e.g., it was a sapling when The Plague struck Europe. Story. New West. By Joseph Friedrichs Added. Related from the Oregonian. Big,…

  • Study: Climate change will endanger trout.

    Ralph Maughan

    “. . . fish die-offs and fishing closures in Yellowstone and Montana as a probable sign that global warming is already affecting trout populations” This is from today’s Jackson Hole News and Guide. Study: Climate change will endanger trout. By Corey Hatch.

  • First-ever 'State Of The Carbon Cycle Report' Finds Troubling Imbalance

    Ralph Maughan

    Sadly many carbon sinks (natural processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere) appear to be turning into carbon sources. The effect of this is to increase the rate of increase of carbon dioxide in the air — a positive feedback, the kind of thing that causes system to spin out of control and change…

  • Professor: Fires in West will worsen

    Ralph Maughan

    WASHINGTON — A Montana expert testified Thursday that climate change will increase and intensify wildfires, while members of Congress and U.S. Forest Service officials grappled with how to pay for the increased costs of fire suppression Story: Professor: Fires in West will worsen. By Noelle Straub. Casper Star-Tribune Washington bureau. This should be obvious, but…

  • CA fires not global warming related, but northern Rockies fires are

    Ralph Maughan

    California fires get caught up in global warming debate. By Rocky Barker. The same scientist who attributes the back-to-back big fire seasons in Idaho and the Northern Rockies as signs of human-induced climate change says the fires in California are not.

  • California's age of megafires: Drought, housing expansion, and oversupply of tinder make for bigger, hotter fires

    Ralph Maughan

    California’s age of megafires. Drought, housing expansion, and oversupply of tinder make for bigger, hotter fires. By Daniel B. Wood. Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. Many factors behind the current California wildlfires are similar to those last summer in Idaho and Montana, except, of course, the sprawl into the “fire plain” is worse,…

  • White House edits Center for Disease Control climate testimony

    Ralph Maughan

    More political manipulation of science by the Bushies. White House edits CDC climate testimony. By H. Josef Hebert. AP Writer

  • Global Warming Delusions at the Wall Street Journal

    Ralph Maughan

    The Wall Street Journal frequently runs articles that are skeptical about anthropogenic climate change or skeptical whether climate change will make much of a difference to anyone. In years past, prestigious newspapers like the WSJ could just ignore their critics (as could the New York Times and the Washington Post) Now scientists who represent another…

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