Category Archives: Global Warming

Some Call it Gumbo

2/17/2011 – 5:50 pm

I’m busy this week and have many things on my mind and small bits of unfinished business, so while I usually restrict my commentaries to one topic, I’m going to borrow my friend Renee’s term and give you some Thursday gumbo – a little of everything.
The good thing about beekeeping is you have ready access [...]

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Broken in Two

10/14/2010 – 12:33 pm

I attended the Gulf Gathering at Weeks Bay, Alabama last week. It was a conference of grassroots groups from the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, coming together to try and figure how to put their region together again after the BP oil disaster.
This being the gulf, implications from the other recent disaster – [...]

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HD4

7/8/2010 – 6:43 am

Next Tuesday is the fourth annual Hansen Day – or HD4 – how do you plan to commemorate it?
What’s “Hansen Day”? Hansen Day – or what should be known as Hansen Day – is July 13. It was on that date in 2006 that NASA scientist and leading climate change
expert James Hansen wrote [...]

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The Watershed

5/27/2010 – 12:01 pm

It’s been in the 90s this week in northwest Vermont. In May. This is:
a) proof of global warming
b) just deserts for middle-aged idiots who decide to start running again after 30 years
c) all of the above
d) none of the above
e) maybe the above
The correct answer is e) maybe the above. A May [...]

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The Gulf of Oil

5/6/2010 – 11:49 am

Venice, LA – I’m down at the oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico or what for now is the Gulf of Mexico. Rick Steiner, a marine conservationist and oil spill expert flew over the gulf Wednesday morning and said, “It’s not the Gulf of Mexico any more. It’s the gulf of oil.”
Rick’s been [...]

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Obama’s a Fool (Part I)

4/29/2010 – 12:32 pm

Less than a month ago, Barack Obama told us he wants to open 167 million acres of America’s continental shelf to oil drilling. At the time, he promised the nation that we have the technology to do this in a safe, clean and environmentally sound manner.
Now, before the “April Fool” window has closed, we [...]

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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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