In this space the first week of January 2004, I predicted it would be the year that would determine whether or not American democracy would survive. In the last month of that same year, I was forced to conclude, with sorrow, that American democracy is doomed. Although I’ve been allowed brief moments of hope since […]
By floegel
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Posted in Commentary, Economy, Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear Energy, Oceans, Oil
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Also tagged Barack Obama, ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Tar Sands, Vladimir Putin
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Last Wednesday, 13 July 2011, was HD5 or Hansen Day Five. It marked the fifth anniversary of James Hansen’s 2006 essay in the New York Review of Books, in which he wrote: “…we have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse […]
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 Environment […]
Summer Heat
All through May and June it rained. Biblical rains last 40 days and 40 nights; ours lasted 60. The roof leaked, the basement flooded, the dry side of the basement flooded. By the end, it wasn’t just me with seasonal affective disorder. May and June 2013 was the wettest 60-day period in Vermont in 100-plus […]