McCain to Colorado: Drop Dead!
In theory McCain should know that the West is going to get hotter and drier. Needless to say, Coloradans do not see things the way that the senator from Arizona does.
In theory McCain should know that the West is going to get hotter and drier. Needless to say, Coloradans do not see things the way that the senator from Arizona does.
Bush and the Republicans have thwarted attempt after attempt by Democrats to pop the speculative oil bubble and provide relief to consumers. Each time, Republicans sided with Big Oil over the American people.
It has become increasingly clear that achieving a serious, binding international emissions treaty is even more politically implausible a task than passing serious, binding domestic legislation.
When voters start standing in line on the first Tuesday in November, they ought to be also considering just what the people farther down the ballot will do about global warming.
People attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week are the target of a $2 million advertising and PR blitz by a coal industry-fun...
There are signs that people are getting green fatigue. Short-term threats are using up our threat bandwidth, while the specter of longer term havoc isn't enough to budge us into paradigm shift.
Going beyond the mantras "use mass transit," "shop local," and "use renewable energy sources," the student group Partly Sunny seeks to go beyond the basics and maximize the effectiveness of those efforts through design and resourcefulness.
If you look back at the predictions we made in 2008 about the United States and the world, you'll see just how wrong we were. Today, in 2016, it's time for a mea culpa on behalf of the profession.
McCain's shameless flip-flop on offshore drilling marks just the latest backtrack in a long series of environmental policy revisions by the presumptive Republican nominee.
For many us, our work as organizers did not begin until much later in life, but for Nikos Spiridakis it is already in full swing.
My disappointment comes from the fact that politicians on both sides of the aisle still don't really get that climate change is a planetary time bomb. They still think it's a political football.
So as opposed to targeting seemingly arbitrary employee expenses -- or worse, cutting jobs and benefits -- why not give a boost to the company's bottom line and the planet simultaneously?
Small-scale farmers are thriving and the rest of us are flocking to greenmarkets and planting our own veggie gardens. A handful of knee-jerk naysayers at the Times can't derail this local train.
Despite the fact that the whole year is still expected to be warmer than average, as the news spreads that past months have been cooler, you'll probably hear proclamations like "Aha, global warming is over."
There are fundamental differences between McCain's and Obama's positions and fundamental differences about the prospects for the future between President McSame and President Obama.
Absent from this conversation has been a weighing the various VP candidates' environmental record. Where there ought to be lively discussion, there is - listen closely now - crickets.
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If I were CEO of a corporation I'd placate the Global Warmer "truthers" and play both sides of the fence.
Idiots are consumers, too.
Of course, if global warming were a fraud, as some claim, Xcel would be off the hook.
Go ahead, I'm sure you or they can prove it.
(Crickets)
I like this since Xcel has sports arena rights to the venue for the 2008 Republican National Convention.
and in other late breaking news of the obvious, it is reported that hitler may invade poland.
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