You know the EPA made its endangerment finding on greenhouse gases for a reason: There are a number of ways in which human health is now being harmed or threatened by climate changes including steadily rising temperatures and temperature extremes. An article just out in …
I’ve never been more proud to be a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. I spent a few happy years in Madison way back when. It was just past the days of the anti-war demonstrations, and I was generally apolitical about things for a brief time in …
It’s been a busy week. I hope you didn’t get caught in any of the massive travel snafus in Europe or the US that have made holiday travel a nightmare for hundreds of thousands. If you did, then I hope you survived with most of your sanity …
One dictionary I consulted gave several definitions for reaction:
1. a. A response to a stimulus. b. The state resulting from such a response.
2. A reverse or opposing action.
3. a. A tendency to revert to a former state. b. Opposition to progress or liberalism; extreme conservatism.
What I gather from this is …
I have not been, like most of the rest of the climate change cognoscenti, writing nonstop about Copenhagen this week. I have been working on reviewing thesis work from students in the MS in Global Affairs program at NYU where I teach on climate change. I’ve had …
Mountaintop Removal Mining – The Beginning of the End? – I have written here a number of times about the crime of mountaintop removal mining, most recently in “Appalachia’s Agony”. Now the EPA has responded, finally, to the SOS of the residents of West Virginia, …
