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 dry [...]
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 the [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I read this interview in this morning’s NY Times Science section and thought it worth sharing. It is with Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Norwegian prime minister and an environmental advocate. You can read about her background in the introduction. The interview reveals her alarm at the lack [...]
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 be [...]