Lake Baikal is spared
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Apparently, the pristine natural wonder, Siberia's Lake Baikal, will be spared the threat of an oil pipeline. In a previous post, I reported that the Russian government had approved a plan to build an oil pipeline route that would have brought it close to the lake's northern shore. Environmentalists protested that […]
Maybe not extinction, but still really bad
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Today's Washington Post contains a story based on some new research that offers the hope that, bad as things are about to get because of global warming, the scenario may not be so dire that we are out of time to save ourselves. The study cited in the article is being […]
Climate change: How bad will it get?
Today from Margaret Swedish:
"I wouldn't be shocked to find out that by 2100 most things were destroyed."
What?
I pulled this quote from the remarkably frightening new book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, by Elizabeth Kolbert. The source is climatologist David Rind, who has been working at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) since 1978. […]
Global temperatures on steep rise
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The Bush administration doesn’t get it, or doesn’t want to get it, or doesn’t want you to get it. Take your pick. But his denial of the threat of global warming may the biggest moral failing of this government if we look at it on a scale of potential disaster for human […]
Leaving Kentucky soon
Dear ecological hope blog readers,
I will leave Kentucky soon and then will be back on top of this blog. It was a good break, many contacts, lots to talk about. As I create this new project, I hope you will follow me along.
I have added two new book recommendations, so check them out on the […]
