Category Archives: Global Warming

Proof / Not Proof

3/11/2010 – 11:02 am

Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) was raving on the floor of the House yesterday. “We’re talking about Eric Massa 24/7 on the TV. We’re talking about war and peace, $3 billion dollars, a thousand lives and no press? No press?”
Mr. Massa is the recently resigned congressman from New York who may or may not have [...]

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Quid Pro Coal

2/11/2010 – 10:28 am

You’re hearing more and more voices on the left (including this one), saying Barack Obama can’t get behind initiatives and really make things happen. Health care reform and banking regulations are two frequently cited examples.
It’s not universally true. There are times when this administration moves with surprising speed and efficiency. Just last [...]

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Warmer and Wetter

1/7/2010 – 8:56 am

My new year began with snow. Thirty-three inches of it, the biggest snowstorm in 120 years of recorded weather history in Burlington. It began Saturday morning and didn’t stop until Monday morning. I shoveled and napped, shoveled and napped. We were supposed to attend a holiday party Saturday night; instead we [...]

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Stockholm Syndrome in Copenhagen

12/17/2009 – 8:32 am

It’s cold in Vermont. Our long autumn has given way to the winter weather that always beats the calendar winter by a few weeks here. Frank Capra snowflakes fall past my window as I type.
On Saturday evening, in the company of a 14-year-old girl, I walked to a park in the south end [...]

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The Wrong Direction

12/3/2009 – 10:26 am

I’m back in Washington, DC this week; Tuesday evening I flipped on the radio to listen to President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan. Clearly, there are no good options available, but the choice Mr. Obama’s made seems worse than it needs to be.
The Afghan war is an oil war. The connection is not as [...]

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Worst. News. Ever.

9/25/2009 – 9:25 am

This item popped up, briefly, on the front page of the Washington Post’s web site yesterday afternoon. By this morning it was on page A4 of the print edition. I found it using the search function.
If you haven’t clicked the link above, it will take you to a story about the United Nations [...]

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Peek-a-Boo!

8/27/2009 – 10:18 am

Have you played Peek-a-Boo? Lately? I’ve recently come to have a greater appreciation for the game. I was at a seminar on early childhood development and the presenter was discussing the value of Peek-a-Boo. (BTW, contrary to the old saying, there IS a school for learning to be a parent. [...]

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