Riled Up

Hi ya’ll. Here’s something interesting: trees are growing faster cos of global warming and more CO2 in the air.

From the category of “Isn’t Nature Wonderful?” comes this photo from Martin Rietze (Alien Landscapes on Planet Earth), of lightning at the top of a volcano.

What’s weirdest: nobody understands why this happens. I love stuff like that. Stuff that shows that the world is as new as the day it was born, and that we [...]

I should have linked to this before, but here it is, an open letter from some real heavy hitters about Tim DeChristopher, the daring Monkey Wrencher who kicked sand in the government’s face. It’s about all the events planned for his trial in Salt Lake. I’m hoping to be there, writing about the whole thing.

By Reilly Capps

The folksy genius Berry Tramel, my old boss and hero at the Daily Oklahoman, used to hate the word may. “What does ‘may’ mean?” he used to fume. “What means the same as may? That’s right. May not.”

Berry was right about most things, but I always disagreed about the word may. May and may [...]

By Reilly Capps

Fact of the day: environmentalists suck at arguing. Given solid scientific, photographic, and anecdotal evidence of warming, they’re still losing the debate because one guy used the word “trick” while talking about something called a “hockey stick,” and then because of a couple cold days in February.

This has caused a bunch of enviros to [...]

By Reilly Capps

Of all the snowjobs in the long history of Washington, D.C., God may have pulled off the biggest one last week.

With just one act of extreme weather, He sent the exact wrong message to the most powerful people in the world, and His snowstorm may have killed cap and trade. Clearly, God has [...]

My ski buddies — people who have fled the cities already — like to talk about where they’ll live when the Earth is as hot, dried and shriveled as an Arizona rattlesnake’s shed skin.

The general consensus is that high altitude spots are golden. Places like the town I love, Telluride, should stay pleasant, since it’s [...]

By Reilly Capps

This got largely missed. But the news about Osama bin Laden and climate change was one of the weirder blips to come through in a long time.

Suddenly and bizarrely, this guy’s an environmentalist. Al Jazeera translates:

In the new recording, bin Laden says ”all the industrial states” are to blame for climate change. ”However, George Bush junior, preceded by [the [...]