Great reviews for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Great reveiw for Al Gore's book on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, in today's NY Times. The reviewer writes:
"…as a user-friendly introduction to global warming and a succinct summary of many of the central arguments laid out in …other volumes, An Inconvenient Truth, is lucid, harrowing and bluntly effective."
The film version […]
Science debunkers help Gore’s global warming cause
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Found this op-ed in the Washington Post this morning kind of fun, saying that those so vociferoursly debunking the science on global warming are helping create the audience for Al Gore's new scary film on global warming. And it seems true — the more the oil industry and Bushies debunk the […]
more on the ethanol debate
Today from Margaret Swedish:
One of my posts yesterday focused on the ethanol debate. As an alternative to oil, ethanol will help reduce our dependence on foreign oil sources and, so the discussion goes, using ethanol in our cars and getting automakers to produce more flex-fuel cars will therefore enhance US national security.
But there are questions […]
Ethanol not the solution
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I have been wanting to do a post on the debate around ethanol and other biofuels as alternatives to fossil fuels – why this will not solve our problem and why this could instead increase world hunger, finish off more small farmers, give a big boost to agribusiness and its destructive ways […]
Lower fuel prices as a losing strategy
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Today's Washington Post reports that Democrats are going to use high gas prices as a central focus of election campaigns. That's fine. The Bush administration deserves scathing critiques for its pro-energy industry policies of the past 6 years. We have lost a lot of critical years to begin weaning this country […]
Preemptive strike v. Gore’s film on global warming
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Checked in with the entertaining environmental gristmill.org daily this morning and found there this info on the preemptive strike by the energy industry against Al Gore's new documentary about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, which opens in various cities this coming week.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is one of the corporate groups leading […]
House votes to keep ban on off-shore drilling
Today from Margaret Swedish:
With Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Fl, calling it , “a grievous assault on Florida and other (coastal) states," the House of Representatives yesterday voted down an attempt to end a 25-year-long ban on natural gas and oil drilling along 85 percent of US coastal waters. The drilling provision had been added to the […]
The catastrophe is upon us
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Field Notes from a Catastrophe:Man, Nature, and Climate Change
by Elizabeth Kolbert
A trip across the US can certainly open one’s eyes to the reality of climate change. I finally made it to Glacier National Park in Montana last year only to find most of the glaciers already gone. I also hiked at Paradise […]
Oil insecurity and the US military
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Wow, talk about fossil fuel dependency…
“energy consumption is indispensable to our standard of living and a necessity for the Army to carry out its mission.”
This quote comes from a report entitled, Energy Trends and Their Implications for Army Installations,” which I discovered by way of the Energy Bulletin Web Site. The document […]
The energy crunch to come
Today from Margaret Swedish:
It seems to me to be very important to make as clear as possible to “my people” that we are facing within a generation the depletion of fossil fuels upon which our economy, indeed, the global economy, depends. This is not a matter of more drilling, more mountain-topping, more pipelines, to save […]
