Al Gore’s call to move to a clean energy society by 2018 has not exactly been received with overwhelming support. Yesterday the former vice president challenged the next US president to help switch all of the nation’s electricity to solar, wind and other clean energy sources within 10 years to help end global warming and […]
Wal-Mart gets kicked around a lot. They’ve been blamed for putting small businesses out of business, paying workers too little and contributing to low wages around the world by focusing with laser intensity on selling products at the lowest possible price. And they deserve much of that criticism. But the corporate behemoth is doing some […]
Environmental News Network recently noted the 20th anniversary of the day Dr. James E. Hansen of NASA testified to Congress that worldwide temperatures had risen beyond the range of natural variability. Speaking before Congress on Congress June 23, 1988, Dr. Hansen said he was “99 percent certain” that humankind was altering global weather. Now, after […]
It took a newspaper editorial to finally motivate me to start this blog. While I’ve been thinking about blogging about global warming for awhile, it was the opinion piece in the Las Vegas Review-Journal that actually got me moving.
The Review-Journal may be Nevada’s largest newspaper, but I certainly hope they don’t speak for the majority […]
