Archive for November 2007

January 10, 2007, Frontline interview with Dr. James E. Hansen

... I want to talk about 1988; it's where you got the name "the father of global warming," whether you like it or not. ... Do you remember that summer in 1988? Yeah, I remember it pretty well. It was a very hot summer. We had a huge drought in the Midwest.

Averting Our Eyes: Dr. James Hansen

November 28, 2007, 9:07 p.m., New York Times, Dot Earth blog by Andrew C. Revkin ‘Averting Our Eyes’: James Hansen’s New Call for Climate Action By Andrew C. Revkin James Hansen of NASA testifying this year at a House Oversight and Government

Rural America

We went to the beach on the Washington coast for Thanksgiving. One of the things we noticed, at least in our rental house and rental houses next door to us, was that there was no recycling. We spent some time in the rural southwest earlier this year

The Psychology of Denial: Our Failure to Act Against Climate Change by George Marshall

http://www.ecoglobe.ch/motivation/e/clim2922.htm The Psychology of Denial:our failure to act against climate change Author: George MarshallDate Published: 22/09/2001 Source: The ecologist My first real exposure to the issue of climate change was

Mass Transit is Good for Reading, and so is Amazon

I've been taking the bus a lot more lately, and I rode the 250 Express over to a play in Seattle last night. We were stuck in even-worse-than-usual accident-induced traffic, and I had a chance to finish a book. I also noticed that about a third of

The Defining Challenge of Our Age: Robert J. Elisberg's article in the Huffington Post

(click here for link to the article in The Huffington Post)Bush Fiddles While the World Burns by Robert J. ElisbergLast Saturday, the United Nations released its intensive report on climate change. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon described global warming

Scientist Tim Flannery: Greenhouse Gas Levels Grave by Meraiah Foley of the Associated Press

.By MERAIAH FOLEY Associated Press Writer © 2007 The Associated Press SYDNEY, Australia — Strong worldwide economic growth has accelerated the level of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere to a dangerous threshold scientists had not

Emergency Brakes Needed to Stop Climate Crash by Stephen Leahy

Environment: Emergency Brakes Needed to Stop Climate CrashBy Stephen Leahy*TORONTO, Nov 19 (Tierramérica) - In the end, governments accepted evidence from the world's top scientists that climate change impacts could be abrupt and irreversible, and that

Fun (NOT!) Weather Facts about Greenland

Today, November 17, 2007 (a time of year that one could assume would be fairly cold in a place as far north as Greenland), in its capital city, Nuuk (also known as Godthab), the high was 50°F at 5:50 p.m., and it was RAINING!!! Raining in the winter