Retired Brig. Gen. Steven Anderson calls himself “an accidental environmentalist.” His epiphany about climate change started with a tactical problem. In 2006 and 2007, when he served as the military’s chief logistician in Iraq, he coordinated the transport of millions of gallons of fuel across the country to power everything from vehicles to the large compressors used to … [Read more...]
For casino economist the house always Wynns
Americans are some of the hardest working people in the Western industrialized world. Even when we're not working we're working, as so many willingly becomes slaves to the communications devices and handheld phones that they originally got to make their lives more flexible. We may even click here and learn how to gamble on the things. We're a nation of workaholics, so afraid … [Read more...]
Shin bone’s connected to the ankle bone
As global warming and its attendant effects unfold, self-castigation has become an art form. Why, oh why, are we so damnably human, seems to run the lament. Greedy, stupid, fat and lazy; we saw it coming, yet all we did was bury our heads in the sand. While a year ago the rending of clothes and the gnashing of teeth was sufficient, it now seems we're satisfied with nothing … [Read more...]
US military plans for Arctic melting
As civilian Washington, with climate skeptics in the ascendant, continues to bicker about how-real and how-bad, the military has once again shown that, when it comes to global warming, it's a much more reality-based organization than Congress. The new House wasted no time to start moving backwards on climate. In just one example, Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, who in December … [Read more...]
Locals going loco
I live in New Hampshire. If Democratic Governor John Lynch and the COO of the state’s largest utility corporation, Gary Long, prevail, we’ll soon commence a $1.1 billion construction project to upgrade a transmission line that will bring power from Quebec’s elaborate network of hydroelectric dams to New England electricity markets. The project, dubbed The Northern Pass, will be … [Read more...]