Reading Mickey Glantz’s Climate Affairs, I ran across this odd reference to what appears on first blush to be Thomas Jefferson’s great insight into the effects of humans on climate. It quotes an 1824 letter in which Jefferson writes that climate surveys “should be repeated oce or twice in a century to show the effect …
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I’ve been moaning for a while about the relative paucity of interesting local blogging. Albuquerque’s got a pretty active life of the mind, but I’ve not found very much being written in the blogorealm. So I’ve been happy lately with my encounters with Quirky Burque. Added to my blogroll.
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My socially conscious daughter points out in the comments to my previous post that she and her friends are not Eurocentric. They also circulated a petition demanding that the United States, “as one of the leading industrialized nations of the world,” remove the bureaucratic barriers that are preventing refugees from Zaire’s civil war from finding …
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My socially conscious daughter and her friends yesterday evening collected 34 signatures on a petition abhorring the terrible violence now besetting the border regions between Latvia and Estonia. Their petition demanded UN peacekeeping forces and “immediate foodstuffs and monetary support to the suffering civilian populations.” The majority of people they approached signed, though some disagreed …
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