Climate Change
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Story in the LA Times. Climate change called a security threat. By Karen Kaplan and Thomas H. Maugh II, Times Staff Writer It is a security threat. It’s a political threat too. You can trace Bush’s decline to the summer of 2005 when Katrina hit, although she only tipped over an edifiice that was already…
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I went to Pocatello’s. There were 150 to 200 people, a big crowd for the “Gate City.” I can assure folks that a lot of new conservation networks were formed. National reports. Rally for the Earth: Missoula’s Step It Up demonstration urges action against global warming. Bt Tyler Christenson. The Missoulian Pocatello. A great afternoon…
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Post 999 “Step it Up 2007” is planning thousands of local events across the United States. There are 13 events planned in Idaho. Here where at I write, Pocatello, Idaho, the mayor will give a speech at the festivities. This will be a significant political event even though Bush won’t listen and many politicians in…
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In a huge blow to George Bush, the fossil fuel industry, and the backwards-looking US auto industry, the Supreme Court, in a much watched case, has ruled 5-4 that the Clean Air Act “clearly allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide as a form of air pollution.” As we all know, CO2 is…
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We hear about the wonders of “clean coal” technology all the time, but we hear about the actual deployment of dirty coal technology in the everyday world. We live in the everyday world. Story in the Billings Gazette. By Matthew Brown. AP
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I commented several times on the stupidity of corn-based ethanol as a substitute for gasoline. It’s a very inefficient process and provides fuel at the expense of food. Already ethanol is raising the cost of growing livestock. However, cellulosic ethanol (alcohol made from the other parts of plants, not from the edible portion) has great…
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Demand for corn to make ethanol has now doubled corn prices in the U.S. “The diversion of corn to fuel ethanol uses “is creating unintended consequences throughout the global food chain,” a Bloomberg analysis finds – not to mention increased use of pesticides and fossil fuels to grow all that corn. Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress…
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Al Gore has just finishing testifying before Congress on global warming. He got mixed, but generally warm reception with a few strong dissenters among Republicans. Story in The Hill.com. Gore’s testimony greeted warmly by some members, coolly by others. By Kelly McCormack Gore’s actual testimony (YouTube).