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  • How Meat, Especially Beef, Contributes to Global Warming

    Ralph Maughan

    Those who write for this blog don’t think, “beef, it’s what for dinner.”  If you care about the future of humankind, at least it shouldn’t be. This from the Scientific American. How Meat Contributes to Global Warming: Producing beef for the table has a surprising environmental cost: it releases prodigious amounts of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.…

  • Carl Pope Switches Roles at the Sierra Club

    Ralph Maughan

    Most media are saying, “Pope steps down” Carl Pope Switches Roles at the Sierra Club. By Kate Galbraith. New York Times. This makes a lot of news not just because of the size of the Sierra Club, but its high level of activity. Pope has been the Club’s executive director for a long time. He…

  • Idaho is a manure gold mine. Methane can be captured from the state's pile of muck

    Ralph Maughan

    Potent greenhouse gas (methane) from mega-feedlots could become fuel rather than fueling global warming- Idaho’s energy czar wants to harness power of manure. By The Associated Press Southern Idaho is full of vast stinky livestock feedlots (dairy and beef). Here is one way to amelioate the situation

  • 2007 produces bad news on increase of all greenhouse gases

    Ralph Maughan

    There is bad news all around here, with the most alarming being the sudden rise in emissions of methane, a very potent greenhouse gas (25x that of carbon dioxide). If the arctic tundra has begun to seriously outgas, the outlook is very grim. Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide And Methane, Rise Sharply In 2007. Science Daily…

  • March 2008 sets global land temperature for Earth

    Ralph Maughan

    I am posting this news because the winter of 2007-8 has been colder than normal in the United States, and once again some people are confusing the weather with climate, and in an irritatingly parochial way confusing the United States with the world. Low temperatures and heavy snow in the United States and Europe were…

  • Bush's recent climate speech, annotated

    Ralph Maughan

    President Bush recently gave a speech announcing a new and friendlier Administration policy on climate change, or at least it was presented that way. Closer analysis shows the speech had a lot of problems. The [Annotated] Climate Speech. By Andrew C. Revkin. New York Times. Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post was not impressed either.…

  • More on "Convenient Untruths"

    Ralph Maughan

    Global warming denialists have continued to try to make a big thing out of this U.K. court case about “An Inconvenient Truth.” The Daily Kos has an article about the plaintiff in the lawsuit as well as many links about the case. There is also a link to Al Gore’s response.

  • Convenient Untruths

    Ralph Maughan

    Al Gore has obviously done a great deal to increase concern and interest in reducing the change in climate. While the polls show a large majority are now basically on his side, much of the pro and con derives from other political positions rather than any real scientific analysis before opinions of the average person…

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