From Jay Lindsay: Jim Riccio, of Greenpeace, said nuclear advocates are exploiting global warming fears to try to revive an industry that’s too risky to fool with. “You have better ways to boil water,” Riccio said. But environmentalists aren’t in lockstep on the issue. Bill Chameides, chief scientist for Environmental Defense, said anything that helps …
From the Melbourne Herald Sun, Mills Looks to End Drought: Australian golfer Joanne Mills is confident she can win her first European title in 10 years, as she heads into the final round of the Ladies Open de Portugal. Fun with Google News.
In the June 19 Eos, Vergana and colleagues itemize the impending costs to Andean communities as glaciers, their source of water for both consumption and electricity generation, disappears as a result of climate change: These consequences are akin to a climate tax imposed by energy-intensive societies on populations that have contributed little to the climate …
Mike Campana on the bottled water incident: I remember watching Albuquerque Mayor Martin “El Jefe” Chavez on his cable TV show a few years ago. He had bottled water on his desk. I emailed him, saying that sent the wrong message to viewers. He emailed back, saying that for what it was worth, the bottle …
Biblical scholarship has never been my specialty, but one of my favorite bits has always been the part where the Lord God makes all the beasts of the field and fowl of the air and then brings them to Adam to check out His handiwork: And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the …