Cheap Dirty John E. Sununu Energy Math
In his attack on support for alternate energy Sununu regales the reader with a list of programs that he says failed, ranging from support for natural gas, to high mileage vehicles, to carbon...
View ArticleSenator Brown’s Chance to Kill any Effort to Curb Global Warming
Up to now, it’s been assumed that a Presidential veto of such action would not easily be overturned, but that may not be the case. Senator Bingaman of New Mexico has expressed doubts about the...
View ArticleSome rather terrifying news on climate
The IPCC’s report a few years ago on climate change appears to have vastly underestimated the rate of Arctic ice melt. This is confirmed by data reported in a Globe article today, Arctic ice is melting...
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Climate and Occupy Activists Join Forces to Announce New Grassroots Campaign...
More than 60 protesters gathered today to announce the launch of a new grassroots anti-corruption campaign in response to Sen. Brown’s co-sponsorship of a bill to force through the Keystone XL Pipeline...
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What would Scott Brown’s MBTA Map Look Like?
Most Boston-area commuters are intimately familiar with the iconic MBTA service map. So when thousands of T riders received a “Change of Service” announcement during rush hour this morning (pictured...
View ArticleShort Term Climate Forces: Black Carbon, Methane, and Tropospheric Ozone
Went to a talk on March 19, 2012 by Dr Joel Schwarz about a recent UNEP report on Short Lived Climate Forcers: Integrated Assessment of Black carbon and Tropospheric Ozone and Near Term Climate...
View ArticleHelp Push the Green Energy Message Forward
In order to push the green energy message forward, as well as a sound economic message, I am going to vote for Jill Stein for President. Since Massachusetts is strong for President Obama, this would be...
View ArticleSUNDAY Climate Change Event at Faneuil Hall: What if Superstorm Sandy Hit...
Families in the New York/New Jersey area are still suffering from the impact of superstorm Sandy. Lives were lost, homes were destroyed, and many are still fighting to stay warm without power. Since...
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All Downhill for MA Skiing Industry in Warming World
The skiing industry will be extinct in Massachusetts before a child born today turns 30, according to a new study on the effects of global warming: Of 103 ski resorts operating in the Northeast, less...
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Ignoring the Climate Crisis, Fixating on Phony Ones
Hurricane Sandy hits Cape Cod, October 28, 2012 (CapeLawyer.com) When our children are wondering why we didn’t solve the climate crisis when we had the chance, I’m sure they’ll be thankful we took the...
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MA Climate Impacts: Record Heat in 2012, More Extreme Weather in 2013?
Hurricane Sandy on Cape Cod, October 29, 2012 (Flickr/CapeLawyer.com) While NOAA and NASA haven’t made official pronouncements yet, 2012 is looking like a climate change-fueled record-smasher for...
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Climate Change Turning Northeast Into New Hurricane Alley?
Superstorm Sandy passes through Boston, October 29, 2012 (Flickr’s Ehsan Hoque) Climate change is shifting hurricane tracks away from the Gulf Coast and towards the Northeast, according to a new study...
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How Can We Have Blizzards in a Warming World?
Blizzard of 2003 (Flickr’s Rob Colonna) Global warming doesn’t mean blizzards are going away – in fact, warmer air and water can help add fuel to extreme winter storms. We’ll walk through the science...
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Mild Temps, Bad Storms: MA’s Climate-Changed Winter
Plum Island, March 8, 2013 (quantumking, Flickr) As yet another brutal winter storm hammers Massachusetts with snow, wind and coastal erosion, there’s a lot of talk about what a rough winter it’s been...
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Viewers Thank Harvey Leonard for Climate Coverage
Water breaching the Lynn Shore Drive sea wall, “Nemo” Blizzard of ’13, 2/9/13 (Flickr’s Scott Fisher) Some TV meteorologists are afraid to talk about climate science for fear of blowback from Tea Party...
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Gabriel Gomez is Completely Incoherent on Climate & Energy
Gabriel Gomez, the Republican opponent of Democrat Ed Markey in the U.S. Senate special election to fill John Kerry’s seat in Massachusetts, is working hard to be all things to all people, and nowhere...
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Brookline Passes Landmark Resolution Against Tar Sands
The fight against tar sands isn’t just about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline out west – it’s also about the push for smaller tar sands pipeline projects across the country, including one Exxon Mobil...
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Offshore Wind Critical to Protecting Cape Cod’s Future
When Cape Wind begins construction, it will be the leading edge of an offshore wind industry that’s already created 35,000 jobs in Europe. As Cape Wind’s Hannah Wood writes in the Cape Cod Times,...
View ArticleA Deep Green Future for Boston
Natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy demonstrate that climate change will be a very real priority for the next mayor of Boston. We need all Bostonians to be part of the effort to reduce greenhouse...
View ArticleWhy is Google Fundraising for a Top Climate Science Denier?
Google, which has an office in Cambridge, has a company motto of “don’t be evil.” But it recently hosted a big money fundraiser for Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), the Senate’s climate science denier-in-chief....
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5 Ways Climate Changes are Hammering Cape Cod This Summer
Flooding in Chatham, 2007 (Flickr/Chris Seufert) How is global warming changing Cape Cod? Sean Gonsalves of the Cape Cod Times lists five ways, concluding: 5) New waterfront property. “Preliminary...
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Massport Won’t Say Climate Change, Won’t Say Why
Massport took another step forward in its long-term plan to confront the impacts of climate change last week … but there was something missing from its news release: As the Massachusetts Port Authority...
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Climate Deniers, Super Typhoon Haiyan Is Looking At You
One year after superstorm Sandy became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, Super Typhoon Haiyan just became the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record, hitting the Philippines with...
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Northeast Climate Compact Keeps Proving Carbon Cap and Trade Works Really Well
The U.S. Senate Republican minority used the filibuster to block the majority from passing a carbon cap and trade program in 2010, because FREEDOM, or something. So a group of Northeast states went...
View ArticleOn “Resurrecting The Liberal Project”
A century ago, a popular ex-president stood before a presidential nominating convention and concluded: We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord. And, for the following century, liberals and...
View Article34 Years Ago Today, Walter Cronkite & Paul Tsongas Warned of Climate Change
On April 3, 1980, Walter Cronkite introduced this report on climate change featuring Sen. Paul Tsongas. With the benefit of hindsight, the only thing that seems inaccurate is the time-frame. While the...
View ArticleYears of Living Dangerously: Watch the First Episode Free
A new documentary series on climate change called Years of Living Dangerously premieres Sunday night on Showtime. Watch the first full episode for free & like the series on Facebook:
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SouthCoast Towns Completely Unprepared for Sea Level Rise
Here in Massachusetts, climate science denial may be politically toxic, but when it comes to accelerating sea level rise fueled by global warming, some local officials are just as in denial about as...
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Phony Attack on Climate Action: The US Chamber Doesn’t Care About Jobs
The US Chamber of Commerce is putting the full force of its polluter-funded war chest behind fighting limits on industrial carbon pollution set to be announced by the Environmental Protection Agency on...
View ArticleClimate Change and Geotherapy: Two Conferences, Two Workshops, and Another...
I’ve been going to public lectures on climate change at Harvard, MIT, and other places since at least 1980. Lately I’ve been thinking that I have yet to hear an ecologist talk about the subject. I’ve...
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Will You Feel Safer if MA Imprisons Anti-Coal Activists? (UPDATED)
Authorities wants to put two anti-coal activists in prison for the crime of trying to stop climate change, reports the AP’s Philip Marcelo: Environmental activists Ken Ward and Jonathan ‘‘Jay’’ O’Hara...
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Fall River Herald News Lets Polluter Front Group Deny Climate Science
Extreme floods in Fall River, March 2010 Last week the Fall River Herald News and sister paper the Taunton Gazette published an op-ed column denying manmade carbon pollution causes global warming. I...
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2015 Blizzard: More Evidence Climate Change Intensifying Winter Storms
Scituate, MA (Courtesy of MA National Guard) It’s not your imagination: Giant snowstorms really are hitting Massachusetts more often than they used to. Here’s an example: The 1993 “Storm of the...
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New Study: Global Warming Threatens MA’s Oysters & Clams
Oyster Nest on Lieutenant Island in Wellfleet, MA (Flickr’s Mike Gorfinkle) Ocean acidification fueled by climate change is accelerating faster than previously thought and could have devastating...
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Grumpy Old Globe Columnist Lectures Climate Activists
Hey, you kids! Pull up your pants and turn down that loud music! An old lawyer is here to condescendingly tell you how to stop with your popular, effective actions against climate change, and instead...
View ArticleSen. Markey: Champion of the Environment? Or Corporate Dem Sell-Out?
Sen. Ed Markey gives campaign money to corporate Dem Patrick Murphy over progressive champion Alan Grayson. I am writing to express my disappointment in Senator Ed Markey (MA-D)’s recent financial...
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Some Top MA Companies MIA on Climate Action Suport Letter
Dozens of governors, including Charlie Baker, are getting letters from the business community today in a show of support for President Obama’s limits on carbon pollution from power plants: In an...
View ArticleBig Oil’s Big Gift
In the final actions of the year, the House and Senate passed a spending bill with a big gift for Big Oil. By permanently lifting the longstanding crude oil export ban, Congressional Republicans made...
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The Old Yankees Were Right: Payback Coming Due for December’s Warmth
NOAA Atlantic water temp. map Lifelong New Englanders will often lament during exceptionally pleasant weather that we shouldn’t enjoy it too much because we’ll be punished for it later. There’s no...
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Asked About Climate Risks, Trump is on to Cincinnati
Donald Trump sat down with the Washington Post editorial board and revealed that you don’t need to know anything about anything to win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Trump talked about...
View ArticleGlobe blows it on gas
Apparently we used more oil and coal in the cold snap. That’s bad. The Globe’s unsigned editorial has identified exactly the wrong culprit, and the wrong solution: Two culprits stand out. First,...
View ArticleHolding out for better things in the pipeline
ISO-NE, our regional power grid managers, issued a new report warning of dire consequences unless we build out for MOAR GAS. Rolling blackouts! “Appeals to the public to reduce energy usage” … horrors....
View ArticleA Demand for Progress on Climate
Like gun violence, chronic poverty and unequal health care coverage, the problem of unchecked greenhouse gas pollution won’t solve itself. As important as local and state efforts to reduce the...
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Another Record-Setting Heat Wave, More Boston Media Climate Silence
30,000 dead fish in overheated Mystic River, Somerville, July 2018 (Mass DEP) As meteorologists forecast this week’s sweltering heat and humidity to finally break tonight, here’s a recap of this week’s...
View ArticleHealing Earth (Through the Waters)
John Todd, author of Healing Earth: An Ecologist’s Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2019 ISBN 9781623172985)...
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Nathan Phillips hunger strike, day 7 — please make the calls
Why does a man have to starve himself, just to get the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to protect the public in the most basic way? When you really think about it … you wonder how it’s ever come to...
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“Breaking our will”— or finding it?
Gov. Baker essentially pushed out his undersecretary for Climate Affairs, David Ismay, over some comments he made to a group of Vermont community leaders working on climate change. In talking about the...
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Passing gas, no matter what
Kinder Morgan announced its intent to build its gas pipeline through New England, despite not having sufficient orders to make it profitable. Why? Is this in order to make it seem like a fait accompli...
View ArticleBaker on fracked gas: He has to choose.
To follow up on the press release from the pipeline protestors at the State House … The vastness of the climate issue really requires us to organize our thoughts a bit. Some things are more important...
View ArticleGlobe, put down the pipe
Even yet still another baffling, curdled-milk editorial endorsing more gas pipeline infrastructure, torching (see what I did there) us anti-pipeline “faddists”; and going so far as to flame Sens. Jamie...
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