Big Newseses
Today on the MSNBC Environment Page are two very interesting articles. The headline, the same as on most news outlets today, is about the UK prediction that 2007 will be the hottest ever. They predict that a mild el-nino combined with the additional greenhouse gases introduced by us will be enough to break the record.
The other that peaked my interest is Sweden's pledge to phase out fossil fuels by 2020. That is huge! GDubya will barely commit to reducing greenhouses gases by 10% in that time. Seriously, can you imagine a good sized country eliminating fossil fuels? Can you imagine an average American family eliminating fossil fuels? There are a few, but only a few.
I'm looking forward to following these this year.
Oh, and the MSNBC Environment page is hardly worth a visit. They get a new article about once a week.
2 comments:
which weekly is best for reporting on degrading resources, environment, climatic factors,etc?
The Economist? Which I take.
certainly none of the big three: Newsweek, Time or USNews.
certainly not the pop science rags I read in the barber shop
Science Times section in Tues NY Times sometimes very good, seems to be weeks behind.
What I like about The Economist is their unabashed support of technology (particularly environmentally renewable applied science) as part of the equation (solution) rather than the old fashioned anti-tech ideology of so many (those I knew and still know within the knee jerk 'environmentalist' opposition).
I don't know of a traditional weekly, or any traditional news sources, that do an adequate job of covering the environmental gamut.
One of the oldest and most thorough out there is the Environmental News Network (enn.com). EcoEarth.info has a good daily enviro news wrap on the left column. There really isn't much beyond sites like those. Hitting the enviro bloggers is your best source of the latest and greatest gadgets and innovations, since those guys monitor the RSS feeds all day long. I have some of them linked on the left.
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