Planet Restart: Living With Climate Change

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• Climate Change: One Hundred Acres in Idaho

  Created: Saturday, 27 February 2010 15:23 Author: G J Lau

  Just about every situation you find yourself has been encountered and dealt with either by law or by custom. As individuals and as a society, we have a process for investigating and concluding and acting on our issues. But every so often we come across p...

• Less Talk, More Votes

  Created: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 02:26 Author: G J Lau

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ruled that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health, clearing the way, so to speak, for regulations aimed at reducing the levels of such pollutants in the atmosphere. Today's appearance by EPA Administrat...

• Climate Change: We Need A Whole Earth Solution

  Created: Sunday, 21 February 2010 15:39 Author: G J Lau

  Let me start with an excerpt from a column by George Plumb that appeared in the Feb. 21, 2010, edition of the Burlington Free Press: "By taking up an increasing amount of space, producing massive pollution, creating climate change and fostering invasive ...

• The Power of Small

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 23:51 Author: G J Lau

  Wherever you look there is gridlock in the political decision process. My generation simply could not find the will or the way to do the hard things needed to fix what just about everyone agrees needs to be fixed, be it health care, the deficit, the econo...

• Are There More Clouds?

  Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 20:32 Author: G J Lau

  I am not a scientist. I am a believer in science. And the science I believe in is the science that tells us we are headed for big trouble in the form of uncontrollable climate change driven by our heavy use of fossil fuels. As a non-scientist, I feel fre...

• Climate Change: The Uncertainty Principle

  Created: Friday, 12 February 2010 16:00 Author: G J Lau

  A battle rages for the hearts and minds of people and policy-makers over the issue of climate change. This tug of war is inevitable when the stakes are high. For the fossil fuel industry, the stakes are the jobs and profits that come from extracting and c...

• Big Business and Climate Change

  Created: Tuesday, 09 February 2010 23:29 Author: G J Lau

  The British newspaper The Independent published an article on their web site Sunday purporting to investigate ties between denier groups and Exxon Mobil. In actuality the article merely rehashed assertions made by environmental groups of such links. Ther...

• Glaciers and Climate Change

  Created: Monday, 08 February 2010 17:03 Author: G J Lau

  Anyone who follows this stuff knows that there has been a huge kafuffle over the inclusion in the UN's 2007 report on climate change of an admittedly inaccurate claim that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. The deniers of climate change tout...

• Climate Change: Trying to Make Sense of It All

  Created: Friday, 05 February 2010 21:03 Author: G J Lau

  Here what doesn't make any sense to me. The basic measures that believers in climate change are proposing to deal with climate change need to happen even if it turns out there is no such thing as climate change. We need cleaner air and water. We need redu...

• In Defense of Climate Change

  Created: Tuesday, 02 February 2010 23:53 Author: G J Lau

  Our core belief here at Planet Restart is that climate change is about more than climate, more than just statistics or trends. It is about the problems we face today: legal and illegal migrations, water shortages, disease outbreaks and pandemics, severe w...

• The Pleasures of Winter

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2010 23:24 Author: G J Lau

  I live in the mid-Atlantic region where the winters have been so mild over the last few years that a reasonably hard winter comes as something of a shock. This year's winter has been reminiscent of the winters of the 1950's that I grew up with in New Eng...