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  • Sending the Wrong Message

    Created: Sunday, 30 May 2010 13:40 Author: G J Lau
    The aftershocks of the debacle at Copenhagen continue to shake up the world of climate change. The science has been under relentless attack from critics armed with inconsistencies in the IPCC reports and, of course, Climate-gate. The doubters are gaining ...

  • A Matter of Opinion

    Created: Friday, 28 May 2010 21:13 Author: G J Lau
    How many times do you read about global warming denialists trumpeting the results of the latest poll that shows a decline in the percentage of people who believe that global warming is a serious problem? And to be fair, the opposite occurs as well when th...

  • Petroleum: Good to the Last Drop?

    Created: Wednesday, 26 May 2010 23:05 Author: G J Lau
    Somewhere in my readings I remember an essay in which the author - I apologize because I haven't a clue where I read this - made the point that petroleum is used for many things besides the gasoline that fuels our cars.  So when we begin running short on...

  • A Climate of Crisis

    Created: Saturday, 22 May 2010 11:07 Author: G J Lau
    A main argument used by global warming deniers is that scare tactics are used to promote policies that would deal with effects of climate change driven by global warming due to human activities. And there is no denying a certain grain of truth in that arg...

  • The Oil Spill: A Lesson on Climate Change

    Created: Tuesday, 18 May 2010 10:51 Author: G J Lau
    The Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with an explosion and fire on April 20 on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon is a perfect metaphor for what we have been doing to our climate for the last 100 years or so. Those images of sinuous ribbons of oil work...

  • Caught Between the Boomers and the Bust

    Created: Wednesday, 12 May 2010 10:52 Author: G J Lau
    The birth of a child is a moment when the generations can gather together and celebrate their hopes for the future. Unfortunately, my grandchildren may look back at the bust they inherited from my generation of boomers and wonder how it could have gone fr...

  • The Price We Have to Pay

    Created: Saturday, 08 May 2010 13:51 Author: G J Lau
    Our climate is changing rapidly in response to the high levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that have been rapidly introduced into the atmosphere due to human activities related to producing and consuming energy from various fossil fuels. ...

  • The Sage of Richmond

    Created: Wednesday, 05 May 2010 10:52 Author: G J Lau
    My first on-line journal (the word 'blog' didn't exist then) was dedicated to the memory of H.L. Mencken, a great American writer of the early 20th Century. Not without his own blind spots (his idealization of German culture and occasional anti-Semitism) ...