Results for keyword: global warming
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Two weeks in the West
Two weeks in the very arid West means dry ski slopes, destructive wildfires, unending drought and unhappy bears; timber mills are victims of housing collapse; costs of carbon dioxide and its removal.
by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 10, 2007 -
Western water is petering out
Pete Letheby says the West is headed for a hotter and drier future, and this time, as farmer Gerald Spangler warns him, we’re running out of groundwater.
by Pete Letheby, Nov 19, 2007 -
Salvaging the atmosphere
The Forest Service jumps into the carbon offsets game even as scientists begin to question whether planting trees can help in the struggle against global warming.
by Rick Craig, Oct 15, 2007 -
West’s forests will never be the same
Paul VanDevelder warns that climate change could devastate the West’s forests, leaving nothing behind but parched grasslands.
by Paul VanDevelder, Sep 24, 2007 -
A Climate Change Solution?
Pete McGrail believes the volcanic basalt that underlies the Columbia River Basin may hold a cure for global warming: carbon sequestration.
by Valerie Brown, Sep 03, 2007 -
Clean energy activist reflects on corporate influence in New Mexico legislation
Ben Luce is no longer pulling his punches as he battles for clean energy in New Mexico.
by Laura Paskus, Sep 03, 2007 -
The inevitable fires next time
Rocky Barker warns us that the new West is a world of inevitable, long-lasting and increasing forest fires.
by Rocky Barker, Aug 31, 2007 -
What the Crandall Canyon mine disaster tells us
Auden Schendler says Robert Murray – owner of the Crandall Canyon mine and a well-known global warming denier – is responsible for poor decisions that go beyond mining in an unsafe environment.
by Auden Schendler, Aug 27, 2007 -
Hot time in the city
In the dog days of a hot summer, Allen Best wonders if air conditioning is altogether a good thing.
by Allen Best, Aug 13, 2007 -
The caveguy within holds us back
George Sibley believes our Neandertal brains hold us back from accepting the fact that we cause global warming.
by George Sibley, Aug 06, 2007






