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
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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.
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →Global Warming, Western Ranching, and the Bovine Curtain. This is from the WWP blog linking to an opinion by George Wuerthner as to how cattle contribute mightily to global climate change.
Just like the old Iron Curtain that squelched any critical discussion of Communism’s failures, we in the West live behind a “Bovine Curtain.” The […]
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