Archive for the 'Global Warming' Category
An interesting paper, by Jonathan Remy Nash, which hypothesizes that the precautionary principle may have legal standing, based on current case law. Not at all an insignificant issue, considering the refusal of the present US administration to give adequate credence to environmental concerns, and that many environmental issues will therefore be tried in the [...]
Since it’s Memorial Day, I thought it would be good to do a post on the military, and how they are or aren’t reacting to global warming. There hasn’t been a lot of action, but there is every indication that that’s about to change. An interesting study, National Security and the Threat of [...]
As noted in the previous post, there are some slight ripples in the American Press that indicates the American Press Corps has finally woken up. The ‘question as a headline’ phenomena is certainly a good start. But I believe we are about to find out if the press is capable of doing its job, [...]
Not really a post, but a link to a great article over at Truthout, which describes yet another example of the draconian punishments handed down to those who are trying to stop the destruction of the planet. These are all people who have committed acts of conscience, and while damaging some property, have been [...]
Courtesy of Yale Global Online, here is a round-up of some top environmental stories. Of course, there is the usual parade of stories about global warming, but one in particular by Rick Weiss at the Washington Post caught my eye:
Rice Industry Troubled by Genetic Contamination
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 11, 2007; [...]
Good news that the Supreme Court has finally agreed that the EPA does have the duty to regulate Carbon Dioxide emissions. Related to that longstanding effort to suppress the truth about global warming, Exxon had built a web of think tanks and ‘policy experts’ to fight the idea that global warming was a [...]
I was reminded the other day of an interesting passage in Fritjof Capra’s book Hidden Connections:
Although mycoplasm are minimal cells in terms of their internal simplicity, they can only survive in a precise and rather complex chemical environment. As biologist Harold Morowitz points out, this means that that we need to distinguish between [...]
Another in a series brought to you by the military-installed & amazingly free sideways adjectives…
Bjørn Lomborg backtracks so quickly, he falls down quite a bit, in a mis-titled piece over at Project Syndicate. I say mis-titled because the secret in the title: Global Warming’s Dirty Secret turns out not to be Global Warming’s secret [...]
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