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EPA Continues its Critique of State Department analysis of controversial pipeline from the Alberta tar sands-
A million objections were sent to the State Department’s Draft Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement analysis (SEIS) of the environmental effects of the Keystone XL pipeline. Perhaps it was portentous that the [...]
Continue Reading →I attended the Fish and Wildlife Service’s wolverine listing hearings in Helena. Opponents, including a number of Montana state legislators as well as MDFWP, argued that wolverine populations were “stable” or even “increasing” and therefore did not warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act.
While the ill-informed state legislators who testified could be forgiven for [...]
Continue Reading →Holistic grazing guru pieces together false assumptions to produce ineffective but popular recommendations on climate change-
Allan Savory is a name not well known to most people concerned about climate change. However, he has been preaching his gospel of holistic grazing for a generation now and is somewhat loved by the Western livestock grazing industry, [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve been reading about the world’s economic woes quite a bit recently and the arguments between between those who support austerity to fight some looming “deficit crisis” and those who support deficit spending to stimulate the economy. In these arguments I am starting to believe that those who argue for austerity cuts to reduced [...]
Continue Reading →Hurricane Sandy’s belated recognition of the issue is way too late-
After hundreds of millions of dollars spent by the fossil fuel industry and its allies like the Koch Brothers, one wrong way hurricane affecting millions of people has put climate change back on the political map.
The melt of the Arctic Ocean and the [...]
Continue Reading →The late wildfire season moves to the Pacific Northwest-
This year’s great Western wildfire season began in Arizona and New Mexico with huge fires in May and June. These are now out and the states have had a nice and wet summer monsoon season.
Fires then moved to Utah, Colorado, and then to the more [...]
Continue Reading →Talk about the need for a presidential candidate science debate leads somewhere-
Back in 2008 there was mounting concern that science had always been left out of the presidential debates. This concern led to efforts to demand presidential candidates discuss these issues. Soon there was the formation of Science Debate 2008. This group, small at [...]
Continue Reading →With severe drought gripping much of the Mid-West and West, the federal government is promising relief from this “natural disaster” for agricultural producers. Soon federal funds will be flowing for “disaster relief” in the farm belt. Already farmers are permitted to graze and hay Conservation Reserve Program lands which are supposed to be, among other [...]
Continue Reading →5-milion years ago instead of 600,000 or 130,000 years ago-
Recent interest in the relationship between polar bears and brown (grizzly) bears from which they emerged has been fueled by the observation of increasing numbers of polar bear – brown bear hybrids. Our recent article on this produced a number of comments, [...]
Continue Reading →Is this likely response to global warming beneficial or detrimental?
In 2006, Jim Martell from Idaho, was hunting in the high arctic and shot the first confirmed grizzly bear – polar bear hybrid. There had been unconfirmed reports of rare hybrids in the past, but this was the first confirmed instance. That the two species of [...]
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