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Thank you for visiting! 28 Feb 2012 | 12:23 pm
This checklist was labor of love and feverish activity in 2008 and 2009. But then this blog quieted down as I shifted my energy toward radically remaking how I do my business, how I build buildings –...
Compost: a weapon of mass destruction? 3 Dec 2010 | 12:35 am
In another example of how climate change is going to ask us to redefine much of our natural environment – two new studies highlight a growing threat to life as we know it – THE COMPOST BOMB. From Scie...
Pee On Ice 9 Nov 2010 | 04:21 pm
New research seems to finally be acknowledging the obvious: that water runoff from initial glacier melt is triggering much more dramatic, accelerated melting. Science Daily reports: melt water in Gre...
Western Antarctic Glacier Passes Tipping Point 15 Jan 2010 | 01:21 am
The game changer that many feared is now unfolding in Antarctica. The Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is poised to suffer catastrophic collapse according to a new study by Richard Katz of the University of ...
This Is Analysis We Can Believe In 8 Jan 2010 | 04:36 pm
While President Obama sets about attempting to fix our national counter terrorism analytic machinery – we learned this week via William J. Broad and The New York Times that the CIA is playing a very i...
I want to report a mugging 2 Jan 2010 | 02:30 pm
To the Editor of The New York Times: I want to report a mugging. I thought I was enjoying a quiet and safe New Years at home. Re “It’s Always the End of the World as We Know It” (opinion article, Ja...
Vietnam Puts the Pedal to the Metal – Germany Pumps the Brakes 6 Dec 2009 | 03:41 pm
Mongaby.com in Highest rate of CO2 emissions growth since 1990 reports: Between 1990 and 2005 Vietnam had the highest rate of emissions growth among countries that emitted more than 100 million tons ...
Oh Canada, say it ain’t so! 4 Dec 2009 | 03:54 pm
Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done ...
Storms of my Grandchildren 4 Dec 2009 | 03:53 pm
Jim Hansen, the preeminent climate scientist and now political activist has recently emailed out a new note, Never-Give-Up Fighting Spirit: Lessons From a Grandchild. The note was adapted to an articl...
The Problem with Offsets 19 Nov 2009 | 03:54 pm
Carbon offsets are an alluring commodity to compensate for our consumption. But as Paying More for Flights Eases Guilt, Not Emissions by Elisabeth Rosenthal on the cover of today’s NY Times illustrate...
