Climate Change
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You may be amused. I tell my students you will learn more of what’s going on by watching the “fake news” by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert than watching Fox News, CNN, etc.
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You’ve probably all heard that the President suddenly is interested in climate change and he even wants to have an international conference to set caps on emissions to establish “aspirational goals” on the emission of greenhouse gases. Every week Washington Post’s Dam Froomkin writes a long and detailed column about the White House — White…
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NASA Administrator Questions Need to Fight Global Warming. By Marc Kaufman. Washington Post Staff Writer. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin says that although global warming is changing Earth’s climate, he’s not convinced that is “a problem we must wrestle with.” The NASA chief — whose agency has come under fire in Congress for cutting several programs…
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I guess it’s redundant to say this, but this very bad news. The headline is misleading because it’s not just a rise, but steepening rise. Scientists report rise in levels of carbon dioxide. By Robert S. Boyd. McClatchy Newspapers If we are lucky the rising rate is due to increased human use of fossil fuels,…
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The REA was created during the New Deal to bring electricity, light and hope to poor rural areas that private utilities did not find it worthwhile to electrify. Many years later the agency is still around and uses your taxpayer money to subsidize the construction of polluting coal-fired power plants to areas that are now…
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The President announced a plan to reduce reliance on foreign oil and reduce emissions, but almost all of it would take place after he has left office, and it is very modest. In fact, one part of his plan might seek to reverse what states have already done on their own to tackle the climate…
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Group wants to rename Glacier. By Bill Schneider. New West. post 1120
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Barker writes about Idaho farming and the changing climate. He suggests legislation that would pay farmers for “sequestering or capturing carbon in the soil through new farming practices and by planting trees.” I would suggest that one of the most cost effective measures would be to retire public grazing allotments in order to sequester carbon,…