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  • 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…

  • More on "Convenient Untruths"

    Ralph Maughan

    Global warming denialists have continued to try to make a big thing out of this U.K. court case about “An Inconvenient Truth.” The Daily Kos has an article about the plaintiff in the lawsuit as well as many links about the case. There is also a link to Al Gore’s response.

  • "60 Minutes" to feature Idaho, all those forest fires and global warming

    Ralph Maughan

    Rocky Barker wrote about this, this morning. It will be on TV this coming Sunday. “60 Minutes” report on fires and global warming highlights Idaho. By Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman.

  • Convenient Untruths

    Ralph Maughan

    Al Gore has obviously done a great deal to increase concern and interest in reducing the change in climate. While the polls show a large majority are now basically on his side, much of the pro and con derives from other political positions rather than any real scientific analysis before opinions of the average person…

  • Idahoans must adapt as wildfire seasons become increasingly treacherous

    Ralph Maughan

    This is hardly the first time this has been discussed, but this article goes into detail about what may be the new summer reality in Idaho and other Rocky Mountain states. I have found the good time for outdoor recreation is May and June, not July to mid-Sept (too much smoke). Folks will need to…

  • Senate Subcommittee considers Great Basin management

    Brian Ertz

    The Senate Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee is holding a hearing in Las Vegas today ~ Thursday, October 11 ~ to discuss threats to the Great Basin. From what I gather, fire and cheatgrass will be highlighted on the agenda. Subscription only article from E & E : The Senate Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee…

  • Global Warming, Western Ranching, and the Bovine Curtain

    Ralph Maughan

    Global Warming, Western Ranching, and the Bovine Curtain. This is from the WWP blog linking to an opinion by George Wuerthner as to how cattle contribute mightily to global climate change. Just like the old Iron Curtain that squelched any critical discussion of Communism’s failures, we in the West live behind a “Bovine Curtain.” The…

  • Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts

    Ralph Maughan

    Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts. By Andrew C. Revkin. New York Times. The rate of melt was faster than almost all the model simulations had predicted. What about the near future?

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