Tag Archives: Environment

“Useful idiots”, and why I don’t like to blog about climate change anymore.

By Page | Published: June 21, 2009
The other day, John Fleck of the Albuquerque Journal posted an update on his work blog about the latest US government climate change report, and the specific information it contained regarding how climate change is affecting – and will continue to affect – things here in the American Southwest.  It was his usual interesting, straightforward, [...]
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The Environmental Cost of the Cold War

By Page | Published: July 13, 2008
Originally published here. Late July, 1991: It was one of those hellishly hot days here in Albuquerque, where you either stayed inside with the air conditioner running, or found a swimming pool someplace, or just sat in front of a fan and tried to stay cool. I was working as a student intern out on [...]
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