Climate Change
-
While coal-fired power plants are notoriusly dirity, some are a lot worse than others. They are usually the older plants. One that has long galled me is the old, but big, 4-corners power plant near the Four Corners area of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. It spews its pall over the scenic canyonlands country…
-
“U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that he’ll do everything I can to stop construction of three major coal-fired power plants in his home state of Nevada and will push for more alternative energy development.” Reid had seemed to be neutral to leaning toward the coal plants. They are being proposed not because…
-
“Just like their polar bear relatives in the Arctic, Yellowstone grizzlies are rapidly losing habitat as a result of global warming. . . .” This story is columnist Joel Connelly’s at the Seattle Post Intelligencer, but I should add that failure to discuss or plan for the effects of climate change is one of the…
-
This is from the blog Carnivore Conservation. Polar bears in Alaska are increasingly denning on land because the sea ice is thinning, becoming too unstable for safe denning. This is according to a new study by U.S. Geological Survey’s researchers and published in Polar Biology . . . Read the rest
-
With the record high temperatures in the Rocky Mountain and Intermountain West, the temperatures of trout streams are soaring above, sometimes far above, that which kills trout. It is plainly evident in Yellowstone Park. Heat kills fish in Yellowstone. Jackson Hole News and Guide. Yellowstone is more vulnerable than many mountain stream areas because the…
-
Most conservationists are celebrating the defeat of two amendments to the new energy bill that would have authorized $200 million in grants or $10 billion in direct loans for coal gasification/liquefaction projects. Coal state senators are pushing this as a “clean” method of using the vast coal deposits, many believe use of coal, is not…
-
Warming in the Arctic is proceeding at a dramatic rate. This article describes many changes and dangers. Spring is coming 6-8 days earlier. Arctic spring’s ‘rapid advance BBC News. and earlier Arctic ice no barrier for plants. BBCNews
-
This is an editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune today. Congress is currently considering a big energy bill. It could end up as bad as what the Republicans proposed (different from a bad Republican bill, but bad just the same). There should be no subsidies for corn ethanol which takes your tax money instead of…