Bookworm Room

Interesting, isn’t it, how the earth gets warmer and colder, and warmer and colder?

1 Comment »

It’s an old-fashioned concept: Some horrible disaster happens, and the victims (or the observers) ponder it, and then pronounce, “It’s God’s will.”
Nobody would say that now, right? We’re rational, scientifically oriented creatures who search for meaning in everything/ We would never shrug and, Job-like, admit that meaning can elude us and that [...]

7 Comments »

I’m a scientific ignoramus.  Although I’ve been skeptical of global warming from the start, my skepticism hasn’t been rooted in a sound grasp of facts and scientific principles.  Instead, it arises because of my source problems:  I deeply distrust the people touting climate change.
From the moment Al Gore started mouthing off about it, and triggered [...]

5 Comments »

….but you wouldn’t listen.  You had to go ahead and do it anyway, and only now, when things are getting serious, are you figuring it out yourself.  These are words parents say to teenagers, and conservatives say to liberals.  In teenage land, you end up with pregnancies, STDs, and substance abuse.  In liberal land, you [...]

11 Comments »

I grew up spending a large part of my life at Lake Tahoe. At that time, Tahoe was a brilliant blue and crystal clear. More than a decade ago, after a long hiatus, I returned to Tahoe. I was overwhelmed by the crowds, by the wall to wall houses, by the big [...]

4 Comments »

Today just hasn’t worked as a blogging day, what with one thing and another and another and another, ad infinitum (or do I mean ad nauseum?). I’m therefore going to take a page out Laer’s book, and just compile a whole bunch of posts into one big post. I’ll also keep updating this [...]

8 Comments »

Climate Change: When new facts emerge, the open-minded tend to alter their views. This is what has happened to a Hungarian environmental scholar whose position on global warming has been transformed.
Until his Damascus moment, Miklos Zagoni, a physicist and environmental researcher, had been touted as his nation’s “most outspoken supporter of the Kyoto Protocol.” But [...]

3 Comments »

Yet another problem with biofuels, the ones that are supposed to be cleaner and help stop global warming.  I haven’t seen any reports yet, but I’m sure that part of the rise in food prices will be traced back to the fact that food crops, both those directly supplied to the consumer and those used [...]

6 Comments »