COPENHAGEN–The United States marked the first day of the UN Climate Change Conference by declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant, by defending its goals for greenhouse-gas reductions, and by promising to pay “its fair share” of a $10 billion annual fund…
2009
COPENHAGEN–The UN Climate Conference is under siege in Copenhagen, but not yet from the expected crowds of protestors. As the conference opens today, the masses that have crowded the meeting place include 34,000 delegates from nations and…
Illinois state officials poisoned six miles of the Sanitary and Ship Canal southwest of Chicago on Wednesday to determine whether any of the tens of thousands of dead fish that sufaced were Asian carp, an invasive species.
One was.
“This is clearly a…
Some suspect the treaty that will be negotiated in Copenhagen over the next two weeks is just a cover for a pact with extraterrestrials, for a one-world government that will enslave the masses, for plans by the Illuminati to cull the world…
I’ve struggled with this story for years, unsure how to write it effectively enough, superstitious that writing about a good thing could spoil it—for if you write about a sunny day in Chicago, rain is sure to follow—and uncertain I was the right man…
First the climate bill was dead, then the climate bill was not dead yet, then Copenhagen was dead, then Copenhagen was not dead yet, and now it’s all back on the table, right where President Obama said it would be: a legally binding climate treaty…
By speaking the language of capital to capitalists, the United Nations hopes to prove that damaging the environment costs them more than it profits them. But if you ask me, men of property will still opt for the profit.
This weekend, the UN released…
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana) voted against the climate bill as it emerged from committee last week, leading many to fret about the bill’s chances. Yet Baucus himself is optimistic. How can this be?
It suggests a strategy not unlike the one Democrats…
The Republican boycott of the Senate climate bill could go down in history as a noble last stand or as a symbol suggesting that on the leading issues of the day, Republicans have nothing to contribute anyway.
Republican members of the Senate…
While the recession is reportedly over, we can’t wax nostalgically about it yet because much of the suffering it caused continues.
Millions remain unemployed, many more are struggling, many who survived just fine have seen their 401ks, their home…
