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All Heil Breaks Loose
Six decades after World War II, Nazi U-boat poses threat to Norway What’s scarier than a Nazi U-boat slinking along your shores? A Nazi U-boat sunk along your shores, with 65 tons of mercury still inside. In coastal Norway, residents are keeping a wary eye on a 62-year-old casualty of war that could pose a […]
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Report casts doubt
A new report questions whether the 358 U.S. cities that pledged to meet Kyoto's targets will be successful. That's a fine question, but it's perhaps easy to misconstrue as an implicit criticism that the promises were meaningless.
There is every reason to think that the cities can meet the targets. (And, heck, the pledge is only 18 months old!) Portland, in fact, is already well on its way.
What the report should serve to highlight is this:
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Not what it sounds like
From TP: Former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) was named the ranking member of the House Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee yesterday. "The Democrats in the Senate have signaled they’re going to make climate change a big issue," said Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee. "We need to have […]
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We will wonk you
DR: You’re a big supporter of hydrogen, which is a storage medium for electrical energy. Moving our transportation infrastructure to hydrogen means offloading the power burden from oil and liquid fuels to electricity sources — predominantly natural gas and coal. How is that an environmental gain, to go from oil to coal? TT: It isn’t, […]
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Tom Friedman, erstwhile Great Green Hope
Tom Friedman of the NYT gets a lot of love around here as the green movement’s great popularizer, someone whose plain-spoken pronouncements can convince politicians and plain folks alike to act on climate change, etc. So what’s up with the so-called Mustache of Understanding puffing vigorously into his rhetorical trumpet (sub. required) in favor of […]
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Property rights measures are about stifling community
You see, this is what I was talking about.
From today's Oregonian:
The Clackamas County Board of Commissioners decided Tuesday to speed the processing of claims made under Oregon's Measure 37 property rights law by preventing residents from testifying about filings. The commissioners will approve valid Measure 37 claims without question or public comment.
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On the year ahead for greens
The folks at Tom Paine asked me to write a piece on a green agenda for the coming year. I tried to tackle three points: We’re in a chaotic, transitional period on energy and environmental issues. Circumstances are uniquely aligned for green progress. Several economically powerful and politically connected interests will be trying to take […]
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Fails
Whereas Tony Blair just makes me feel vaguely sad, the British press never fails to delight me. No pretense of objectivity here, no sir.
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About climate change, that is
After years of having any mention of anthropogenic climate change purged from press releases and public statements, NOAA public affairs officials express shock that the agency has finally stated the obvious.
