Global Cooling?

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Wishful thinking or new science? A little boomlet of data showing that average global temperatures DROPPED last year, with the largest snowpack across North America in 30-odd years and the thickest Arctic sea ice since 1966. Snow in Baghdad, Jerusalem, Greece…

One researcher suggests that the drop in global temperature in 2007 was so great that [...]

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Winning the Oil Endgame

January 21st, 2007 · No Comments

This column first appeared in the Sunday Tribune, 21 January 2007.
Richard DelevanIn 1850, the world worried what would happen when oil ran out. Whale oil. After centuries of easy hunting for whales in the Atlantic and Pacific, whaling fleets roamed farther and farther to the Arctic and Antarctic as whales got scarce and shy. Whale [...]

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Climate Change Conga Line

January 14th, 2007 · No Comments

This column first appeared in the Sunday Tribune, 14 January 2007.
Richard Delevan
What are you going to do about climate change? Not the person behind you. You. After all, you’re Time magazine’s ‘person of the year’.
Come on. You’re scared, right? Your Christmas of a lifetime was nearly ruined when you took the kids to [...]

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