What will it take to get governments to spring into action appropriate to the real threat of global warming (which some prefer to call œclimate change, but is about warming, nonetheless).? In yet another instance of the bad news in front of us, London’s The Guardian reports that scientists doing research for the Intergovernmental [...]
Today’s Washington Post contained a very sad article about the voracious beetle destroying forests in British Colombia: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801772.html. The beetle is not new. What is new is that Canadian winters are no longer cold enough to kill them off, which is crucial for keeping their population under control. The result? Read the article. It is [...]
A new poll conducted by the New York Times/CBS News shows that a large majority of US Americans are prepared to pay higher gas taxes if these are linked to efforts to reduce global warming. Read the article at: www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/national/28gas.html The poll shows that 85 percent oppose an increase in the federal gas tax. However, [...]
With the news of this past week, I think about how many conflicts in our world are in the same places where the oil lies “ violence in the Niger Delta has claimed scores of lives in the past few days; Iraq is sinking rapidly into the sectarian strife predicted by so many before the [...]