tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61307856946329485732024-03-07T19:39:45.145-08:00carbonsmartUse Less, Live MoreAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189054237136652765noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130785694632948573.post-58152294685722869182007-10-18T12:19:00.001-07:002008-12-11T23:26:05.555-08:00Defining ClimateThe scientists, the experts on climate, they are doing their best to explain.Over and over they call news conferences, stand in front of the cameras and speak into the microphones. They state with all the clarity and import they can muster that in the next century the global temperature will increase by at least 6 degrees Fahrenheit (When reading science papers, don’t forget it’s all metric) . Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189054237136652765noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130785694632948573.post-22499518185880985192007-10-18T08:35:00.000-07:002007-10-18T08:36:20.541-07:00Save Thousands of Dollars While Losing Weight From the day my first child was born, I began to take global warming personally. Before that, climate change had seemed a horrible but distant cataclysm, so difficult to imagine. However with the birth of Corey, this future became mine to hold. It snuggled into my arms, fragrant and vulnerable. Every fiber of my being demanded I do all I could to protect it. Because Corey was born in 2000Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189054237136652765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130785694632948573.post-7029685100681984682007-10-18T08:34:00.001-07:002007-10-18T08:34:56.619-07:00Edged off the EarthOn a beach along the Hudson Bay, I once snuck up too close to a polar bear and only realized my danger when she rose to her feet and looked at me, 30 feet away. Polar bears are the largest land carnivore, weighing three times more than the average lion. If she charged me, there was little chance I'd make it to my truck. An animal like this could run down a galloping horse.For Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189054237136652765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130785694632948573.post-39039355319276736332007-10-18T08:22:00.000-07:002007-10-18T08:23:27.085-07:00Shoot your CarLast time I went in for a check-up, the nurse got angry. She said she'd kill for my blood pressure. She was breathing a little heavy, weighed a lot more than I did and, personally, I didn't take her threat lightly."Hey," I said. "It's not like I was born with freaky great genetics. Three of my grandparents died of heart-related problems." Her eyes narrowed at me and she Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189054237136652765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130785694632948573.post-59127207094732473682007-10-18T08:20:00.000-07:002007-10-18T08:21:59.235-07:00Changing the Mental ClimateUndoing Global Warming (Part II)When I went to high school in the seventies, cigarettes were the most heavily advertised consumer product in the country. Then everyone smoked: in restaurants, bars, parties, in pediatrician's offices. For hours after you hung out with other people, you could press your nose against your skin and there was the stale stink of human interaction. NowAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189054237136652765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130785694632948573.post-90517004757027018182007-10-18T08:18:00.000-07:002007-10-18T08:19:35.126-07:00Our Current CircusIt was a hot July day in 1944. The Barnum and Bailey circus was in Hartford, Connecticut. Filling the world's biggest tent were over 8,000 people, mostly children with their mothers, watching the Flying Wallendas step out on the high wire. Then the southwest tent wall caught fire.Psychologists who study people's reactions to disasters talk about the difficulty of breaking out of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189054237136652765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130785694632948573.post-77783964441344645512007-10-18T08:12:00.000-07:002007-10-18T08:17:12.035-07:00How to Argue(Undoing Climate Change - Part I) It's finally happened. According to a 2006 Pew Research poll, most Americans are convinced global warming is something to be worried about. And how much they're worried is increasing rapidly. An MIT report found that climate change is now the most important environmental issue for Americans, dramatically up from its sixth place position three years Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189054237136652765noreply@blogger.com0