By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Previously on “Climate Change”: When Democrats said they might try legislating to restrict greenhouse gas emissions that are causing the climate to change in a not-good way, Senate Republicans threatened to haul off and give them a dirty look. Afraid of being embarrassed by showing how the Republicans care more about [...]
Posted on August 15th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Climate Change, Climate Change Legislation, Global warming, Senate | 1 Comment »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Not long ago I found myself wondering whatever became of the hole in the ozone layer. Before I found time to do my own search, a segment on the NPR program “Living on Earth” gave me the answer: It’s still there, but it’s closing. Another 60 years will pass before the [...]
Posted on August 4th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson The thing I love about the World Wide Web (which most people think of as the Internet although the Internet is more than the Web), is that it’s all about serendipity. “Good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries” is as good a definition as any. I couldn’t find the poem [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson UPDATE is below. If you just got here and haven’t read my post about the Senate’s murder of climate change legislation, I wish you’d do it now, and then come back here. Repower America will pay for a free phone call to the office of one your Senators. Get a pencil [...]
Posted on July 27th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. –William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” With the help of Democrats in the White House and the Senate “leadership,” Republicans have killed hope for legislation on climate change, or even meaningful energy efficiency, for this year and probably [...]
Posted on July 26th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Climate Change Legislation, EPA, Energy Crisis, Global Warming, Obama, Senate | 3 Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to bring some kind of energy bill to the floor during the week of July 26. Just what it will contain is still open for conjecture. But it’s a sure bet it will be less than environmental activists want, and more that industrial activists will [...]
Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Great minds think alike. Or at least some of them do, some of the time. So it is that Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell each invented the telephone, Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk each found a vaccine for polio, and Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin each developed a theory [...]
Posted on July 14th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Climate Change, Economic crisis: Global, Energy Crisis | 2 Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson There were no bikes to be bought, new or used, where we lived during World War II. I didn’t get a two-wheeler until I was 11, two years after the war was over. For me, riding a bike was never something I could do without thinking. I worried about every car [...]
Posted on July 12th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Carbon footprint, Climate Change, Environment | 2 Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Used to be, if you wanted to see moose you drove 200-300 miles north from here into Northern Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont. This year they’re here in Warwick ( Mass.). Yesterday, three miles from my house, I came upon this young fellow. If I’d been speeding I’d have hit him; [...]
Posted on July 10th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson I probably shouldn’t be reading Bill McKibben’s new book, Eaarth, while I work on an overview essay on climate and energy-related legislation pending in the U.S. Senate. McKibben, you know, is the founder of 350.org, the organization that tells us that the upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, if [...]
Posted on June 25th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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