Category Archives: Global Warming

What They Say About Paybacks

6/12/2008 – 10:21 am

“Well, you know what they say about paybacks….” That’s not the kind of payback I have in mind, the payback that line refers to is more appropriately called revenge and is a dish best served cold. I’ve been thinking about other paybacks this week. Tuesday, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have taken away […]

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Still Doubting?

5/8/2008 – 10:14 am

One of my more frequent and controversial topics of comment is peak oil. It was nine years ago this week that I first wrote of the phenomenon. For those of you who may have missed all those commentaries, here’s a quick recap. “Peak oil” is the term used to describe the situation that will occur […]

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The Luckiest Generation

4/17/2008 – 11:23 am

My father had just celebrated his 14th birthday and was sitting in a movie house in White Plains, New York watching “The Swiss Family Robinson.” The film stopped, the lights came on and a man walked down the aisle. Turning to face the audience, he said in a loud voice, “The war is over!” It […]

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Bye, American

3/6/2008 – 10:33 am

You might have heard the story about General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz. At a recent closed-door meeting with reporters, the 76-year-old, who’s in charge of product development said he thinks global warming theory is “a total crock of shit” and that hybrid cars “make no economic sense.” As you might expect, the people who […]

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Priced Out of the Market

1/11/2008 – 4:19 pm

A friend tipped me off to a small story from last month’s New York Times: “World Food Supply Is Shrinking, U.N. Agency Warns” You’d think it would be front page news, but it was buried in the section C. Food prices are spiking, especially for the world’s poorest people. Global warming is causing crops to […]

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A Record Every Day

1/10/2008 – 9:28 am

“All the snow has turned to water, Christmas day has come and gone.” The old John Prine/Steve Goodman song’s been rattling in my head all week because the two feet of snow that were on the ground at New Year’s is gone, running through my basement like a righteous mighty stream. “Think globally, act locally.” […]

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Statistic of the Day

1/9/2008 – 4:36 pm

According to a report in today’s Washington Post 35,000 people moved to Florida last year. This was unusual, because the Sunshine State’s annual population are more on the order of the 268,000 who moved there in 2005. The Post reporter, Peter Whoriskey, speculates that high taxes and the cost of hurricane insurance are making Florida […]

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