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Look, I know it’s been out a while, but it takes time for movies like this to make their way to rural North Carolina. But no matter where you are, you really ought to see this movie.  I’m pretty well informed about environmental issues, and it even opened my eyes. Yes, on one level, it could be described as an … Read More

Think Progress has a nice follow-up to my earlier post about the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a oil-industry funded group which is trying to convince Americans, through advertising, that there is no global warming. One CEI ad argues that carbon dioxide (one of the root causes of global waming) is good and necessary.  Specifically, the ad says carbon dioxide is “essential … Read More

Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, is opening one week from today, and if you live near a major city, you’ll have a good chance to see it (the rest of us will have to wait for the DVD). But if you stay at home and watch T.V., you may get to see some "public issue" advertisements about “global warming … Read More

Lots of good buzz about the new "Al Gore" movie:

Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Earlier this month in San Diego, there was a large boom, the ground shook, and windows rattled.  But it wasn’t an earthquake, or a sonic boom from a supersonic plane.  In fact, nobody is sure what it was. It isn’t the first time this has happened. It happened in Maine in February.  It … Read More

The first statement in the "statutory mission" of the United States Forest Services says that the agency should be: Advocating a conservation ethic in promoting the health, productivity, diversity, and beauty of forests and associated lands. So why is it in favor of a proposal to sell 300,000 acres of forest land in Western North Carolina in order to pay … Read More

Uh-oh: Would towering sea waves lap over economic hubs of London, New York and Hong Kong, where the world’s business transactions take place, by 2100? Experts have warned that without efforts to curb the rise of greenhouse gases, the polar ice caps may melt far faster under the pressure of global warming than it was previously thought, threatening island states … Read More

I don’t watch 60 Minutes anymore, but last night it ran a segment featuring James Hansen, a government scientist fed up with how the Bush Administration censors and edits the news about global warming.  Think Progress has an excerpt of the show: HANSEN: In my more than three decades in the government, I’ve never witnessed such restrictions on the ability … Read More

I’ll let ScienceBlogs tell the story: Well, despite the fact that the George Bush Gang has been shushing scientists who dare to disagree with his administration’s fantastical world view, now an entire governmental agency has come out and stated that global warming is occurring. Two studies were recently published, documenting changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, confirming that … Read More

The Antarctic is losing 36 cubic miles of ice per year. But there’s not global warming, right, wingnuts?