New Mexico is knee deep in drought. Albuquerque’s drought status is currently classified extreme, and the southeastern plains has the worst ranking—Exceptional—awarded by the US Drought Monitor. http://drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html It looks like all sorts of weird weather is happening all over the US. It’s obvious this is the hot/cold/wet/dry/tornado-infested/hurricane-inundated/ “Noah Build Us an Ark” flood-leveled breath [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bill McKibben’
An Editorial: Bravo to Kids For Speaking Truth to Power
Posted in Environment, tagged 350.org, Bill McKibben, Climate Change, iMatterMarch, Our Children's Trust on May 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Future is Not for the Faint of Heart
Posted in Environment, tagged Bill McKibben, Book Review, Dennis Meadows, Eaarth, Limits to Growth on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last month I read Bill McKibben’s brand-new (4/10) Eaarth—Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, the latest book in a career which began with his 1989 mindset-changing The End of Nature. Earlier this week I heard a lecture by Dennis Meadows, futurist, educator and author of the famous Limits to Growth, first released in [...]
Thank You, Bill McKibben
Posted in Environment, tagged Bill McKibben, Book Review, Climate Change, Eaarth, Politics, Scientific American on April 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m appalled by all the folks who are never challenged when they talk about global climate change as though it were some scientific conspiracy cooked up by a bunch of rich climatologists to keep their jobs. We hear this rant from sources as diverse as the TV weatherman (If Global Warming Kills Us, Blame the [...]
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