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Second most important election of the year

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Henry Waxman beat John Dingell in a secret ballot among House Democrats. Waxman will now chair the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Dingell has been a pawn of the auto industry for years, and is as much responsible for Detroit’s shortsighted approach to its business as were the managers that flew their private jets to […]

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Palin on the environment

Monday, September 8, 2008

A Groton Democrat passed this article, aptly titled Sarah Palin’s record on environment is abysmal) along to me, so I’m going to break my self imposed no-Palin policy to pass it along. There are no surprises here, but there are lots of details. The lady’s environmental policies are dreadful, but what else is new. Some […]

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One more alternative global warming theory bite the dust

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

British scientists have debunked yet another alternative explanation for climate change: Scientists have produced further compelling evidence showing that modern-day climate change is not caused by changes in the Sun’s activity. The research contradicts a favoured theory of climate “sceptics”, that changes in cosmic rays coming to Earth determine cloudiness and temperature. The idea is […]

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Ronald McDonald-hedgehog killer

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Cute, isn’t (s)he? He (or she) is a hedgehog and scores of its furry brethren have met a fate worse than death..no, wait, a fate equal to death- mainly death, through the miracle of modern design from one of the many American incarnations of evil, the McDonald’s corporation: Many German hedgehogs have been found dead […]

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Another environmental threat we can ignore

Monday, December 17, 2007

The U.S. just blocked progress on global warming for another two years. Now there’s yet another major threat Bush gets to ignore, and if he can, make even worse: Seven hundred miles west of Seattle in the Pacific at Ocean Station Papa, a first-of-its-kind buoy is anchored to monitor a looming environmental catastrophe. Forget about […]

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The stupid competition goes on

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years. Greenland’s ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark, […]

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Signs of the Season?

Sunday, November 4, 2007

This picture of a maple tree in our yard is unremarkable, except for the fact that it was taken today, November 4th. Not only have the leaves not fallen, they are still green. The lilac trees behind are also still completely green. My wife is still harvesting stuff from our garden. Has this ever happened […]

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Gore wins the Peace Prize

Friday, October 12, 2007

The best person elected president this century won the Nobel Peace Prize today. Well deserved. I must admit that when Gore first ran for President in 1988 I was agin him, primarily because of Tipper’s ill advised attacks on rock ‘n roll. Right now, I can’t think of anyone who would make a better president. […]

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Nothing New Under the Sun

Saturday, June 30, 2007

The current edition of the New York Review of Books includes a review of Allan M. Brandt’s The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. One paragraph jumped out at me (the article is only available to subscribers of the electronic version, and is not even available to […]

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Home Depot says no to Griswold-maybe

Thursday, June 28, 2007

It is with some chagrin, that I must issue a provisional correction to a charge of environmental depredation that I made against Home Depot recently. Home Depot has pleaded “not interested” to the charge of wishing to cover a Griswold farm with asphalt and ugliness, according to the Norwich Bulletin (Home Depot Refutes Rumor) I […]

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