January 31, 2018

State of the Union, January 30, 2018

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Donald Trump’s January 30, 2018, State of the Union address to Congress (excerpted): ... Since the election, we have created 2.4 million n...
January 18, 2018

Shortsighted and dangerous

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Olaf Errwigge writes in The Commons in response to Michael Bosworth, “Which price do we pay? Keeping additional industrial-scale wind powe...
January 3, 2018

Old forests are essential to sequestering carbon, logging doubles release

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(Burning wood is not carbon neutral.) From The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, ch. 16: In a very simple, widely circulated ima...
December 28, 2017

Santa’s Chariot of the Sun

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Santa carries the sun of the dying year in his reindeer-drawn sled through the sky of the longest night, distributing the lights and gifts w...
November 26, 2017

Excerpt from La Belle Sauvage, Volume One of The Book of Dust

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Excerpt from La Belle Sauvage, Volume One of The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman: The lawns all sloped gently up to a great palace, glowing...
November 11, 2017

Seven megatrends for global warming ‘hope’ – five of which are bunk

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At The Guardian on 8 November, Damien Carrington wrote “ The seven megatrends that could beat global warming: ‘There is reason for hope’ ” ...
September 26, 2017

Don't waste your time with distractions from pulling down statues, taking a knee, punching nazis

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C. J. Hopkins writes (excerpt): Now, despite what the Russian propagandists will tell you, this recent outbreak of fascistic behavior has ...