When the Vatican is out ahead of you on science and policy, it’s time to reevaluate.
I found myself piously tut-tutting over use of water by the profligate denizens of oven-baked, climate change-ravaged California (see last week’s cartoon) until I realized that 75% of their irrigation is used by farmers. Whose brilliant idea was it to make California the nation’s salad bowl?
California has long been bracing for the Big One, and I fear that rapidly dwindling water resources may be it.
Senator Mitch McConnell is going full combat against EPA coal plant rules. Because a handful of jobs in his state are so much more important than anything else on the whole planet.
Senator Inhofe tossed a snowball in the Senate chamber this week as incontrovertible academic evidence that there is no global warming. I won’t waste any valuable breath saying anything further.
I’m not a scientist, but I have noticed a distinct “obtuseness creep” in the messaging of the self-described global warming skeptics when confronted with evidence. None of that matters though, because climate change doesn’t care what they think.
Being new to Long Island, I’m finding its electricity charges tricky. Costs are generously passed along for the Shoreham nuclear plant, which never opened; a hated public authority owns the wires and the poles; and one private company manages the system while another runs the generating plants. I’m sure someday I’ll figure it out.
I always wondered why everyone remained living right next to a massive, potentially lethal volcano.
If you listened to Congressional GOP leadership you’d swear the Keystone XL Pipeline was the answer to our energy prayers. I think it’s the answer to some other prayers, perhaps.
