Antarctica is melting now, too - NASA
The Antartica snow is beginning to melt in a way similar to the Arctic ice sheet, evidenced by NASA satellite images, more proof of rapid global warming.
Lots of bad weather
Bad weather - drought, coastal flooding — portends of climate change.
Your tax money for more coal-fired power plants
Government loan program pours US tax dollars into coal-fire power plants in rural communities, subsidizing the dirtiest of all fossil fuels.
Contrasting visions and values
Contrasting images for dealing with our ecological crisis: the Bush administration’s strategy of denial and obstruction, or a vision of a human project to save the planet.
Fire and Heat
Predictions of excessive heat in the east and midwest, along with wildfires in southeast and southwest, portend a difficult future because of global warming
California water supply running dry
California’s water supply threatened by diminishing snow pack due to global warming and climate change.
Climate change? or just a lot of bad weather
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
It would be too easy to consign all this crazy weather we’re having to climate change caused by global warming. Weather is not the same as climate, and this country has always had volatile weather. The spring floods along the Missouri River are not unusual, nor is […]
Obama confronts contradictions in global warming policy proposals
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today, again, from Margaret Swedish:
I don’t usually post twice in a day, but I just saw this article about Sen. Barack Obama in the Washington Post and wanted to cite it as a great example of the contradictions that will plague politicians in the global warming policy debate.
Because it will matter in […]
New environmental mission for former Norwegian prime minister
Gro Harlem Brundtland invited by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to be one of three emissaries to coax nations to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions that are causing dangerous global warming and climate change
Lifestyles must change, too, if we are to save the planet
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Most of what we read about the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Mitigation of Climate Change, is focused on new technologies and policies to enable them as the way to ‘fix’ our global warming problem.
But we all know somewhere inside that this will not […]
