Monthly Archives: May 2013

By FRANCES D’EMILIO ROME (AP) — The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects. The Food and Agriculture Organization on Monday hailed … Continue reading →

www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2010/20101122_ChinaOpEd.pdf

n_plot_hires.png (1260×720) The trend has been upwards for the past decade.

Nineteen months ago today, Obama announced that he saved Detroit through socialism! Obama: I “refused to let Detroit go bankrupt” – CBS News Nice job, Mr. President! Report by emergency manager says Detroit’s finances are crumbling, future is bleak | … Continue reading →

After the 2003 European heatwave, climate experts told us that was the new normal. Drawing from methods used in epidemiology, a field of climate research called “detection and attribution” tests how human actions like burning fossil fuels affect climate and … Continue reading →

Billions of people freezing and starving in the dark, many turning to cannibalism. “Theoretically, it would be nice not to have any carbon fuels” – Joe Biden Joe Biden: ‘It would be nice not to have any carbon fuels’ | … Continue reading →

I spent the morning yesterday hiking at Pawnee National Grasslands, enjoying the wildlife and wildflowers. Then I rode my bike up into mountains at lunch, and finally finished off the day canoeing in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. The … Continue reading →

A timeline of Internal Revenue Service activities that was developed by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and provided to congressional staff indicates that early last year–as the nation was headed toward a presidential election–the IRS issued a “be … Continue reading →

Nenana Ice Classic The latest that the ice has ever broken up is May 20th (going back almost 100 years.)  This year will certainly end up in either the #1 or #2 spot.

Bill McKibben announces that “we melted the Arctic” just as Arctic ice extent is poised to go above normal. COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut