Roofs are collapsing in New England.

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I read somewhere that makers of disposable chopsticks are the single biggest destroyers of the rainforest. Apparently the word is finally getting out.

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Pretty damned unusual for the middle of winter:
ATKINS, Ark. — Authorities went door-to-door trying to find additional victims of tornadoes that killed at least 27 people, ripped the roof off a shopping mall and blew apart warehouses as they tore across four states.
The dead included 13 people in Tennessee, 11 in Arkansas, and a mother [...]

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But the important question is, where on earth will rich people go to ski?
The persistent and dramatic decline in the snowpack of many mountains in the West is caused primarily by human-induced global warming and is not the result of natural variability in weather patterns, researchers reported yesterday.
Using data collected over the past 50 years, [...]

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This is very interesting news. I didn’t know Iraq was allowed to make its own decisions!
The list of Kyoto backers gets an addition.After an unusually deadly day for U.S. troops in Iraq, one recent accomplishment in Baghdad made for awkward fodder for tonight’s State of the Union speech, which was expected to emphasize progress and [...]

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Because we’re running out of water:
LAKE NORMAN, N.C. - Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the amounts of cooling water they need to operate.

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Your FIOS box and your new TV are using a lot more power.

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I didn’t know there was a new law that would phase out incandescent light bulbs, and I have mixed feelings about the whole thing.
I need bright light to read - I read a lot - and I still haven’t found an energy-saving bulb that does the job. And now that I know they also [...]

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Has anyone noticed how the topic of climate change is conspicuous by its absence in the presidential race? Not that it’s a big deal - clearly, we have all the time in the world!
Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers [...]

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Won’t someone talk about it in the context of the presidential campaign instead of blathering on about cleavage and haircuts?

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Being gradually boiled alive. Not one big thing, but lots of little clues like this indicate what we’ve done to the environment:
The freaky run of warm weather in early January has also accelerated one of the nastier rites of spring: Potholes.
Around Greater Boston, city and state highway officials say they are seeing far more potholes [...]

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You put two oilmen in the White House, you have to expect this sort of thing:
Before EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson “answered the pleas of industry executives” by announcing his “decision to deny California the right to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles,” auto executives directly appealed to Vice President Cheney. EPA staffers told the LA [...]

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Let’s see what the Terminator does next:
The Bush administration blocked California’s plan to put tighter limits on automobile tailpipe emissions, handing a victory to the auto industry on the same day the president signed an energy bill that mandates the biggest boost in federal fuel-efficiency standards in more than 30 years.
Late yesterday, Environmental Protection Agency [...]

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More happy news. You know, I’m beginning to understand why Al Gore isn’t running - you know the Republicans will manage to pin every single Bush policy disaster - things like this - on the Democrats:
Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since World War [...]

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve been stockpiling pasta:
Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — Wheat rose above $10 a bushel for the first time, bolstering prices for other grains and oilseeds and stoking inflation.
Chicago wheat futures rose as much as 30 cents, or 3.1 percent, to $10.095 as dry weather threatened crops in Argentina, adding to [...]

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Last-minute breakthrough in the U.N. climate talks, with an accord reached without much help from the United States:
The United States had been portrayed as the stubborn villain of the meeting all week. Blame for the final dispute was also laid at America’s doorstep.
“You can’t expect us to have national mitigating actions without technology support from [...]

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Dramatic drop in Arctic sea ice is much, much worse than anyone anticipated.

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More good news:
NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A deadly ice storm in the U.S. heartland triggered power outages that paralyzed parts of the most important U.S. oil hub, threatening supplies to the region’s oil refineries.
The storm knocked out power to more than 800,000 in the U.S. Central plains and forced Enbridge (EEP.N: Quote, Profile, [...]

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How about that? It’s not your imagination:
More than four times the number of natural disasters are occurring now than did two decades ago, British charity Oxfam said in a study Sunday that largely blamed global warming.
“Oxfam… says that rising green house gas emissions are the major cause of weather-related disasters and must be tackled,” the [...]

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The Windy City just might be the most sustainable city in America. Smart thinking!

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Water.

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The one bright spot in the price rise for oil is that the Northeast is expected to have another mild winter. Thank heavens for global warming!

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Good:
A federal court in California yesterday rejected the Bush administration’s new fuel economy standards for light trucks including SUVs, ruling that the government failed to take into account the effects of carbon emissions and their possible link to global warming.
The finding by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit [...]

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I’ve been reading a Jimmy Breslin book called “I Don’t Want to Go to Jail: A Good Story,” and one of the most interesting characters is a Mafia priest, Father Phil. He ties himself into some pretty interesting theological knots to justify murder and stealing - but this being a Breslin book, it’s all very [...]

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