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“Gas Tax Holiday”: Clinton is going backwards on Climate Change Policy

April 26, 2008 By mak

What is going on?  It feels like Clinton is giving in to the notion that in order to win the midwest we have to ease their pocketbooks. That's a perfectly respectable goal.  But in economics you want to tax things that you want to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate-change, clinton, gore, obama

Climate change: Massachusetts sues EPA (again)

April 3, 2008 By mak

I'm proud to live in a state where we're fighting the good fight.  But, while this is so important, we just haven't begun to turn the tide on climate change.  I heard a colleague speak this week and learned that humans are … [Read more...]

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This is strategy?

March 10, 2008 By mak

Wolfson is the same Clinton spokesperson that brought up Ken Starr. Now this inanity: On a conference call with reporters and several prominent military supporters of Clinton's presidential bid, spokesman Howard Wolfson was asked: if Obama … [Read more...]

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Obama: influence of being mixed race

February 3, 2008 By mak

I've been a Gore 08' dreamer until futility hit late in '07.  With my "DraftGore 08" bumper stickers having only just landed in my mailbox, the DraftGore.com grassroots movement posted an announcement coming to grips with the reality … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gore, mixed-race, obama

Bill to Ban Phosphates from Dishwashers

June 16, 2007 By mak

There's a new bill proposed to ban phosphates from your dishwashing detergents here in Massachusetts, Senate Bill 536, proposed by Pamela Resor of Acton.  For background, nitrogen and phosphates are two of the major culprits in coastal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: pollution

Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007

April 13, 2007 By mak

On the environment:Anyone who has studied science and talks to scientist notices that we are in terrible danger now.  Human beings, past and present, have trashed the joint.The biggest truth to face now - what is probably making me … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate-change, vonnegut

Switzerland Invades Liechtenstein

March 5, 2007 By mak

But it was an accident.  Does this mean our Homeland Security Level should go up to Orange?Here's the story from the NYT/APSwiss Accidentally Invade LiechtensteinWhat began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing … [Read more...]

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It’s not about individual consumption in an inefficient society

February 28, 2007 By mak

I'm an earth scientist, and these arguments about Gore (or any environmentalist's) personal consumption habits frustrate me. Why reporters always turn to the environmentalist and ask what they are doing in their own lives to reduce their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate-change, gore, oscars

The Effects of Climate Change and an Inconvenient Truth

June 20, 2006 By mak

I also recently saw the new climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth.  I was really impressed by how well Gore knows his science.  He taught some critical concepts in oceanography (thermohaline circulation, sea-ice … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: global-warming, national, sea-level-rise

Headline “Powell Turns Bush Critic”

May 1, 2006 By mak

This cape cod times top headline today caught my eye, refering to Colin Powell's comments in an interview in Britain about the war in Iraq. Seems to have been buried in the bigger news outlets.I thought this was a remarkably strong … [Read more...]

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