This is both clever and astute: Oil shale is kind of like online journalism, there’s such potential there, but from the looks of it, we may never figure out how to make a profitable industry of it. From there, Terray Sylvester of High Country News does a nice job deciphering the contradictory signals sent by…Continue Reading…
By now, Andy Revkin must feel like a tackling dummy. All this week, numerous liberal bloggers have singed him for this piece he wrote on the misrepresentation of climate data, in which he essentially equated Al Gore with George Will. Gore’s camp has taken offense, respected scientists have registered their disapproval, and climate change ideologues…Continue Reading…
Since I moved last August to Boulder, Colorado (temporarily), I’ve been a wee bit concerned about the mountain lions that occasionally pass through my Foothills neighborhood. (Yes, I know, I’m on their turf.) My attitude has veered between healthy respect, outright fear, and typical, cartoonish New York bravado (who you looking at?). My four year…Continue Reading…
Last May, shortly before I left Audubon Magazine (where I was an editor for eight years), I received a flurry of angry calls from around the country. None of these people knew me; they were trying to reach John Flicker, National Audubon Society’s President. My phone extension had become mistaken with the organization’s main number…Continue Reading…
Another day, another screed from Joseph Romm. Joe, do you have any idea how shrill this latest broadside against the New York Times sounds? Yes, there is legitimate debate to be had over the merits of comparing Al Gore to George Will, which is what science reporter Andrew Revkin does in this Times piece published…Continue Reading…
This absurd post by Joseph Romm, in which he accuses The New York Times of “media malpractice” due to supposed errant climate change coverage in several recent stories, reveals a doctrinaire mindset on the relationship between global warming and natural disasters that is becoming all too common in environmentalists. Romm is ticked off because, among…Continue Reading…
In case you missed this, Ben Stein favors a carbon tax. Seems like the California resident and conservative economist is having “trouble breathing on too many days.” But his argument is more against the unpredictability of cap and trade. That, and putting the same masters of the universe back in the driver’s seat: Haven’t we…Continue Reading…
This editorial in Indian Country Today argues that tribal communities need to throw off the yoke of federal assistance and develop their own economic development initiatives (beyond gaming). I’m curious to see the reaction from tribal leaders, especially to this: Winning legal and political battles to see our children live in poverty and with limited…Continue Reading…
The evidence for civilization-killing droughts keeps piling up. Well…sort of. All the worldwide headlines on this latest story about Angkor, the ancient Cambodian city, mention drought. And for good reason. As the AP reports, new tree ring evidence by scientists show that Southeast Asia was hit by a severe and prolonged drought from 1415 until…Continue Reading…
Remember those controversial Resource Management Plans in Utah that the BLM rammed through during Bush’s final months? I covered the story here. The federal land plans must be on increasingly shaky ground because the Utah State Legislature has drafted a resolution expressing its strong support for the way BLM handled them. My favorite line in…Continue Reading…