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My Grandma, the Fracking Matriarch
Posted by Climate Desk: None Given on November 27th, 2012
Climate Desk: This summer, James West and I hopped in our mud-caked rental sedan and followed the oil tankers out of Williston, ND. On my notepad was a scribbled address, a spot deep in the North Dakota prairie, just off the shores of serpentine Lake Sakakawea, twenty miles from the nearest town. As we drove oil rigs cropped up in every direction, each indistinguishable from the last. But somewhere out there was the one we were after: The one with my name on it.
In the most recent issue of Mother Jones, we...
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Hurricane Sandy: A Disaster Foretold
Posted by Climate Desk: None Given on October 30th, 2012
Climate Desk: In 2007, I published a book called Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming. It was inspired by what my family had been through in Hurricane Katrina (I`m from New Orleans), but at the end, I looked forward to what other families and other cities might have to experience--if we don`t start to think in a much broader way about our society`s stunning vulnerability to hurricane disasters.
As I wrote:
Even as we act immediately to curtail short term vulnerability, every...
Is David Axelrod Responsible for Climate Change Ennui?
Posted by Climate Desk: None Given on October 16th, 2012
Climate Desk: "It was always going to be the case that whenever the visible reality of climate change became so painfully obvious that you couldn`t deny it any more, that it was going to flip over to a winning issue. The question was: When was that going to happen?"
So spoke Joseph Romm, the former Clinton energy official and popular blogger behind Climate Progress, at the first Climate Desk Live briefing at the Mott House on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Romm and his fellow panelists--strategist Betsy Taylor...
Record-Drought Gets Cattle Hoofin’ It
Posted by Climate Desk: None Given on August 27th, 2012
Climate Desk: The great expansion of America took ranchers west. The drought is pushing them back east.
Lifelong Wyoming rancher Neil Forgey is hoping the grass is greener in Winner, South Dakota. This year`s drought has forced a terrible choice on mid-West ranchers: sell, or haul. Neil`s usually verdant land in Douglas, Wyoming--home for decades--is "drier than it`s ever been," he said. Every county in that state is a declared disaster area, eligible for federal money. Neil`s property was also threatened by...