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Mitigate the methane
Posted by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: None Given on May 18th, 2014
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: First, the bad news. There is broad agreement that methane emissions from natural gas development in Pennsylvania and other states are a serious problem. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas and, absent adequate controls, methane leaks across the natural gas supply chain could undo many of the potential environmental benefits natural gas can have over other fossil fuels like coal. But there appears to be a disconnect about what is being done today to assess and regulate these emissions in the...
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Global warming vs. wildlife in Pennsylvania
Posted by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: None Given on December 7th, 2013
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Who doesn’t remember going on their first deer hunt or seeing their first moose? Hunting and observing wildlife has long been an important part of our country’s rich natural heritage. The success we’ve had in restoring big-game populations has been largely due to the millions of dollars generated from the sale of sporting licenses as well as a self-imposed excise tax on sporting arms and ammunition. Our state fish and wildlife agencies have wisely used this vital source of conservation funding to...
Winter’s sting: Intense weather suggests the climate is changing
Posted by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: None Given on March 17th, 2013
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Global warming skeptics reacted with glee to the recent record snowfalls from the Midwest to states farther south. But the intensity of such storms and other severe weather does not refute climate warnings. Rather, it reinforces the likelihood that the world's climate is changing because of human activity -- and not for the better. More than 21 inches of snow fell in Wichita, Kan., in February, breaking a century-old monthly record. More snow fell in one day in Amarillo, Texas, last month (19 inches)...
Too hot to handle: The danger of climate change is cause to sweat
Posted by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: None Given on January 13th, 2013
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Mother Nature is trying to tell us something and every passing year her message becomes more urgent. That is the takeaway from the news that 2012 was the hottest year in the history of the contiguous United States.
The politicized community of climate change deniers will always find a way to deny the obvious, but more and more the obvious just won't be pushed out of sight. The situation has become a grim variation of the punch line to the old joke: Who are you going to believe, the climate change...
Some like it hot? People know climate change, but politicians chill
Posted by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: None Given on July 12th, 2012
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: This should be the summer of our discontent, with heat waves, drought and other troublesome weather affecting large parts of the nation. Instead, Americans are hot but apparently not bothered about what it all might mean.
According to a new Washington Post-Stanford University poll, just 18 percent of Americans interviewed named climate change as the world's top environmental problem. In 2007, when Al Gore's warning documentary and a United Nations report were making headlines, 33 percent called...