The former vice president brought his famous “slide show” to BSU on Monday night, much of it the same as what he presented in the film An Inconvenient Truth. But Gore continues to update and tailor his presentation for each audience he’s addressing - so here, for example, he highlighted how the incidence and severity of forest fires has increased with temperatures over the past decade. He noted that he was in Japan last week for that nation’s premier of An Inconvenient Truth, and observed how, in Japanese, the word crisis is represented by two symbols: one for danger, one for opportunity. To get to the opportunity, we must face up to the danger, he said.
January 23, 2007
Idaho: Gore rocks Boise with climate change presentation
Oregon: Road to conservation in the Umpqua National Forest
To his surprise, Hoehne was on the brink of a 70- to 80-foot waterfall, one that wasn’t marked on any maps or duded up with a walking path and guardrails by the U.S. Forest Service.
Hoehne had found a little paradise within a roadless area.
Maine: Beyond the Allagash wilderness battles
More damaging to the Allagash than all these failings is the road system that has grown up around it during the last several decades, some 30,000 miles of roads not only surrounding the waterway but also reaching into just about every corner and cranny of the north woods. The mile-wide buffer zone that was supposed to shield the immediate river corridor from the excesses of industrial wood extraction has been honored primarily in the breach, allowing logging operations to reach the edge of the waterway’s restricted zone, which varies in width from 800 feet to as little as 400 feet.
Montana: Upcoming forest chief didn’t defend old growth
The Middle East Fork logging project was not only approved on Kimbell’s watch, but, as regional forester, she personally went so far as to reject or dismiss every single official objection point and concern brought by homeowners and families who live up the East Fork and also scientists from the University of Montana.
Calls to act on global warming precede Bush speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Environmentalists, evangelical Christians and congressional and corporate leaders have called for action on global warming in the days leading up to President George W. Bush’s State of the Union speech.
Pelosi hard nosed on climate change
Dingell represents the other side of the debate, the side that is quick to point out that overzealous restrictions on emissions could decimate the U.S. economy. He wants to hold extensive hearings on climate change, to investigate the problem, if in fact it is a problem, and what it might cost to try to address it; that is the way he has dealt with issues since he came to Congress during the first Eisenhower administration. He says global warming will be a priority for his committee, but clearly not the only priority.
“We’ve got Medicaid, Medicare, health insurance, prescription drugs,” Dingell said. “We’ve got leaky underground storage tanks.”
Leaky underground storage tanks? When Glacier National Park is melting?
“Smoking gun” for human caused warming
WASHINGTON - Signals that humans are the main factor behind recent global warming are stronger than ever, an authoritative global scientific report will warn when it is released next week.
Montana: Legendary Libby asbestos-awareness fighter passes away
Les Skramstad, the former Libby mine worker who helped draw worldwide attention to his ailing and all-but-forgotten Montana community, died Sunday of an asbestos-related cancer. He was 70.
A tragic ending to a triumphant life, Skramstad’s passing comes more than 45 years after he, like many of Libby’s residents, received a death sentence in the dusty, asbestos-contaminated mill on Zonolite Mountain. At 3 a.m. Sunday, Skramstad died peacefully in his sleep, family members said.