Price of corn soars
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
This is a bit of a postscript to yesterday’s post on the problems with corn ethanol. I just caught up this morning with yesterday’s NY Times and found an editorial on precisely what we reported yesterday — that the drive to switch from corn for food and feed […]
Corn ethanol will raise food prices, create shortages
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
After all the IPCC hoopla, I wanted to get back to another related topic — corn ethanol — one of the products that President Bush and big agribusiness hope will replace gasoline in our cars. We have posted about this before. Corn ethanol has some pretty serious […]
Bush’s ‘Hole of Denial’
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Well, I guess the Bush administration is a bit on the defensive regarding global warming and climate change since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its dire report on the extent and acceleration of warming as a result of the human spewing of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into […]
Joni Mitchell sings our grief
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
We need voices, voices that can reflect our grief back to us, what we have done to ourselves, to our Earth. Joni Mitchell was one of the song-writers of an earlier generation that did that, with haunting melodies and poetic lyrics that were often heart-rending and sometimes a […]
“This is real, this is real, this is real…”
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Reading the gazillion articles on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on global warming — well, it ain’t cheery weekend reading, is it? How long have these voices from scientists, deep ecologists, nature lovers, and others been trying to tell us exactly what this report now […]
Exxon Mobil funds groups to undermine IPCC report on climate change
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
I don’t often post more than once a day, but this needs comment:
I have posted before on the efforts by Exxon Mobil, using some of those mindboggling corporate profits ($39.5 billion in 2006, as we reported yesterday) to fund scientists to cast doubt on the science on global warming. […]
“IPCC report will already be out of date…”
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
This was what many feared. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, created under the auspices of the United Nations, is about to release its new report on global warming and its impact on climate. The UN is made up of governments with many competing interests. The […]
Of climate scientists, congressional hearings, White House debunkers, and Exxon Mobil — why climate change is a moral issue
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Today from Margaraet Swedish:
The juxtaposition of news items the other day certainly brought the moral question of our ecological crisis starkly before us — the reality of human-caused destruction of our biosphere and the attempts to cover up or officially deny that reality.
Why is this a moral issue? Because the decisions […]
