The British newspaper, the Guardian, published an article July 26, 2009, revealing that George W. Bush kept evidence of global warming from the public by classifying as secret spy satellite photos showing the dramatic melting of polar ice sheets. The claims of global warming deniers’ ring a bit hollow with this revelation. The receding ice shelf poses a threat to seals and polar bear habitat, and the ice free Arctic Ocean absorbs more and more solar radiation as a result of the missing ice cover, with the possibility of run-away warming...

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Thomas Friedman, in his book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, said that global warming was becoming global weirding, referring to the weather. There's another type of weirding operant here. Any time a blog or article comes out about climate change, the deniers come out like roaches when the lights go off. A recent example occurred today in my local paper. It almost made me choke on my coffee...

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This week congress passed a new war funding bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and where ever we decide to invade next. (Pardon my sarcasm.) Tacked onto that bill was a little debated "cash for gas guzzlers" bill. It probably couldn't have made it on it's own. The bill gives the owners of clunkers who trade them in to be scrapped a voucher for buying a new vehicle. Will this do the environment any good, or is it just a stimulus package for the auto industry?....

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These days it's unusual to hear something good about climate change. I recently wrote about Bolivia's Chacaltaya glacer totally disappearing. I don't really enjoy writing about global disaster, but when it happens we should take note. Bolivia's loss could present some serious problems for them. I was pleased today to see an article in the Arizona Daily Star about a glacier in Argentina, called the Perito Moreno Glacier. The glacier seemes to have shrugged off any hint of global warming....

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In part one of this blog subject, relative to how I live the green life, I revealed that I drove a a gas guzzler and why. I have other transgressions that you may as well know about. No one's perfect, at least no one that I know. When I bought my retirement home in Tucson, Arizona, I asked the realtor...

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If you are sitting on the fence over the global warming "debate" consider the following. Friday the New York times reported thet the oil, coal, and auto industry's own scientists acknowledged back in 1995 that fossil fuels and their use by human activities did indeed affect climate change.

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Bob Lutz, CEO of GM, was on Letterman last night spreading the usual auto industry meadow muffins. He and Letterman were talking about electric cars, specifically the Chevy Volt which GM is touting as the next great car. Nevermind that it won't go more than 40 miles withour re-charging. . . .

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This morning I read an Op-Ed piece in the NY Times by Seth Shostak, an astronomer with the SETI Institute, those folks who look for extra- terrestrial beings in outer space. The point of his thesis was that the kind of space exploration done on Mars, namely sending robots and cameras, made more sense than sending people to outer space due to the cost and energy it would consume. His term for sending humans into deep space to explore was “a pipe dream.”

The technology, not yet developed, and the cost of fuel required, estimated at...

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The Miami Herald reported on the internet Monday, May 4, 2009, that Bolivia's Chacaltaya glacier has disappeared, totally. It used to reside for 18,000 years at 17,388 feet above sea level. It had delighted visitors and skiers. It will likely never reappear, unless we enter a new ice age....

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I just watched a frightening program on the Science Channel called China's Raging Sands. If you don't believe in human activity causing climate change you need to watch this film...

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Read the blogs and the comments that follow them. There's always one commentor saying people who are environmentally aware are all whiners. Global warming is a hoax and the more CO2 the better. All science proves global warming doesn't exist. It's a conspiracy....

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Here’s a new one on me, and yet another reason to head off global warming no matter what causes it.

Today I read a report from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. They produced a study that concluded that global warming, along with higher rainfall totals and longer warm seasons, resulted in the spread of West Nile Virus throughout the world for the period from 2001 and 2005.

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