Climate Change

  • 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?

  • The rapid melting north polar ice has already changed the climate there

    Ralph Maughan

    There have been a lot of article about this summer’s all time low ice pack, but this article from the Scientific American tells even more.

  • Congress probing EPA approval of Uintah County coal-fired power plant

    Ralph Maughan

    Salt Lake Tribune. Congress probing EPA approval of Uintah County coal-fired power plant. By Patty Henetz This issue is that the Bush Administration is paying no attention to the recent Supreme Court ruling the carbon dioxide is a pollutant that the EPA should regulate. Reuters. Calif. lawmaker chides EPA for approving coal plant. . .…

  • Judge Orders Bush to Report on Global Warming

    Ralph Maughan

    This dovetails nicely with the story previous about Mark Rey. The Associated Press reports “The Bush administration violated federal law by missing deadlines to produce a study on the impact of global warming, now as much as two years overdue, and must issue a summary by March, a federal judge ruled. Judge Saundra B. Armstrong…

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