By Bruce E. Johansen
A walk around New York City’s Battery Park area, at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, got me seriously into global warming during October of 1999.
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By Bruce E. Johansen
Will I live long enough (I am 62) to wake up one morning in September to a headline that reads: ARCTIC ICE CAP GONE? Given what happened this year, the odds are improving. This news story probably will include a disclaimer saying that a single event does not ‘prove’ global warming, and an emphatic denial from someone on an oil-company payroll asserting that the disappearance of the arctic ice cap is a matter of natural variability having absolutely nothing to do with human combustion of fossil fuels.
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By Bruce E. Johansen
I read in the New York Times about the recent global conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro under the headline: “Global Economy Limits Expectations at Earth Summit in Brazil.” This conference was popularly styled “Rio+20,” after the Earth Summit that produced a global treaty on climate change in 1992, as well as an agreement to protect biodiversity. “The two accords have sweeping ambitions, but have yielded only modest results so far,” said the Times’ account.
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By Bruce E. Johansen
Describing the heat wave across the eastern two-thirds of the United States at the end of March, weather watchers nearly ran out of adjectives. Across the U.S. in March, more than 7,000 record highs were set, 25 for each record low. During the third week of March, the temperature broke 90 in Michigan. It hit 91 in Omaha March 31, April 1, and April 2—a spectacular 40 degrees above average. It was 67 at 6:00 a.m. April 2, a usual mid-summer morning. March ended 16 degrees above average in Omaha, a record.
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By Bruce E. Johansen
How do fossil fuels keep a leash on our political system?
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