A Brief Introduction to the Concept of Global Warming

We all saw, “An Inconvenient Truth.” If you didn’t, then consider adding it to your list of to-do’s. You don’t have to agree with everything you hear or see in the film, but it does offer an excellent working definition of what exactly global warming is, and [...]

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“Dimming the Sun” Program Review: A NOVA Special
As many of you may well know, Nova documentaries on local PBS stations are extremely well-produced, often very insightful pieces on pressing issues that affect us all, whether political, environmental or otherwise. Several months ago, I caught a rebroadcast of “Dimming the Sun” and was again impressed by [...]

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Virgin Atlantic Successfully Uses Biofuel In Plane
from an earlier post last year…

The wild blue yonder is getting greener.
On February 24, 2008 a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 took a 40-minute flight from London to Amsterdam using a 20 percent biofuel in one of the plane’s four engines. The test was to determine if biofuels could perform [...]

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Will Lake Mead Evaporate By the Year 2021?

Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have asserted that it is fifty per cent likely that Lake Mead will end up going completely dry within 13 years, or by the year 2021.
Lake Mead, which hedges the border between both Arizona and Nevada, [...]

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How Eco-Friendly Is Republican Nominee John McCain?

So it’s pretty clear that the Bush administration has treated the issue of climate change in a completely inept and incompetent manner. With John McCain as the presumptive Republican presidential candidate for the 2008 election, it’s his job to bring the GOP up to date on this whole “global [...]

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