En Allemagne, l’avenir des bourgs: énergétiquement indépendant. Pendant que tout le monde attende action des gouvernements nationaux, les allemands ont pris les affaires en main. Continue reading
Entries Tagged as 'Global Warming'
En Allemagne, un futur indépendant
February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Energy, Environment, Europe, Global Warming
Global-Warming Deniers
February 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Humor, Politics, Science
Every time I hear climate-change skeptics or global-warming deniers speak, I think of this cartoon that I saw online… Continue reading
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The Death of Food
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Europe, Food, Global Warming, Globalization, The Boston Globe
French traditional cheeses dying out? Say it ain’t so! Still another victim of globalization. Don’t get me wrong: globalization has its perks, and I’m not going to be rioting at G8 or WTO conferences anytime in the foreseeable future, but Big Government, Big Ag, and supermarkets are killing small farms and diversity of palate. The old […]
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Global Warming
December 17th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Business, Conservative Pundits, Economics, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Politics, Science, Technology
Stewart Brand classifies the viewpoints on climate change into four groups: denialists, skeptics, warners, and calamatists. I fall somewhere between the second and third: SKEPTICS This group is most interested in the limitations of climate science so far: they like to examine in detail the contradictions and shortcomings in climate data and models, and they […]
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Reading List
December 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Anti-Semitism, Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Education, Europe, Global Warming, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Media, Personal, Politics, Religion, Science, Technology, The Middle East, War on Terror
It seems that I have a lot of reading for the next few days. These articles look interesting: From Foreign Policy: Why is the United States letting jihadists have free reign online? How Israelis see Barack Obama How Osama bin Laden escaped Tora Bora while surrounded From the Christian Science Monitor: Are more Americans are […]
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Angry Young Men
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Education, Environment, Finance, Global Warming, Globalization, Liberal Pundits, Politics, War, War on Terror
Thomas Friedman is starting to understand why my generation is so upset: I am a 56-year-old baby boomer, and looking around today it’s very clear that my generation had it easy: We grew up in the shadow of just one bomb — the nuclear bomb… But there are now two other bombs our children have […]
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Where’s the Vision?
June 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, China, Culture, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Globalization, Islam, Israel, Liberal Pundits, Oil, Politics
Former Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart also realizes the challenge that the United States is facing: Noting the power of “custom and fear,” and “of orthodoxy and of complacency,” [Arthur] Schlesinger believed that “the subversion of old ideas by the changing environment” would give a new leader the best chance to create a new cycle of […]
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Water Wars
June 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Oil, Politics
The cause of many conflicts in the future will not be oil; it will be water Continue reading
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