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Da Contendah

September 6, 2011 – 6:52 pm

The Lone Star State has been suffering from a record drought. An area larger than Oklahoma has been declared high risk for fire and this past Labor Day weekend wildfires burned more than 100,000 acres close to Austin. Gusting winds exacerbated the problems for firefighters and thousands of residents of Bastrop County have fled the […]

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The Fury of the Unnature

August 31, 2011 – 9:08 am

I had expected my flight from Tokyo to JFK to be delayed by the storm. I landed ahead of schedule. The A train was running on time. The sky was beautiful. Walking down my street from the subway station, I saw little sign of the storm’s passing. I thought New York had been lucky, for […]

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We Are More Doomed Than Before

December 19, 2009 – 9:23 pm

World leaders are leaving Copenhagen. Five nations cobbled together a less-than-satisfactory proposal to combat global warming. China, Brazil, India, South Africa, and the USA hammered out an agreement as a first step toward reducing the danger of a fevered planet. Too little too late. That was the consensus opinion, however Alaskan presidential hopeful Sarah Palin […]

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One Billion 2050

December 11, 2009 – 10:44 pm

Copenhagen is a nice city. Someone once said that Denmark was the perfect country. It scored high in the Happiness Index for 2009. I was there in 1982. The DJ from Bsir’s and I were on a road trip. We drank beer in the Tivoli Garden and ate herring along the harbor. I bought Maxie […]

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Global Chill Out

June 15, 2009 – 9:13 pm

Chicago has recorded the coolest June this year. New York hasn’t seen a single day of warmth. I’ve been fighting off a lung infection for two weeks. The Western Hemisphere is cold and meteorologists are predicting another stretch of seasonally unusual weather. Anti-Global Warming critics have seized on this trend to kibosh scientific data from […]

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