Move to Increase Logging on Oregon Land By FELICITY BARRINGER Published: December 31, 2008 The Interior Department announced a controversial decision late Wednesday to double the rate of logging on 2.6 million acres of federally owned forests in southwestern Oregon. In doing so, it brushed aside the objections of the… Continue reading
———————————– “Hong’s work doesn’t prove that the contrails have no effect on temperature, just that they are unlikely to have a major role, says Ulrich Schumann, director of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich.” “Because Hong’s analysis studied high-level clouds in general-and… Continue reading
————————————– “Quite a lot is known, and very little is reassuring.” “The remedies are not hard to grasp. Politicians, however, are supine.” “Yet the mass extinction, however remote, that should be concentrating minds is that of mankind. It is not wise to dismiss it where CO2 emissions, the other great… Continue reading
Experts: Malibu’s Vanishing Broad Beach a Sign of Rising Sea Levels: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-mebeach31-2008dec31,0,6101837.story ————————————————————————————————– Continue reading