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(Blogger's Note 9/23/11 --I made this post last year and have updated it just a bit for this year. It looks to me like it took some work, so why not use it again? Thanks for reading.  hope you enjoy all seasons of the year.) September 22 is the first day of fall.(Above--The 1890 painting Autumn Rain by Julian Alden Weir.)What exactly is fall?Here is a definition.From that defintion--"The autumnal equinox marks the first day of the...

Pollution coming from Texas is so bad that it offends Oklahoma.From the Houston Chronicle---"Coal-fired power plants in Texas are responsible for dozens of bad air days in neighboring states each year, according to a new analysis released by an environmental group Tuesday. The study, produced by the Sierra Club, attributes as many as 64 days with harmful levels of smog in Oklahoma to Texas' coal plants. It also ties the plants to as many as 20...

December 20, 2009   Representative John Culberson, 7th District514 Longworth Building Washington DC 20515-4307   10000 Memorial Drive, Suite 620 Houston, TX  77024-3490   Dear Representative Culberson:   Thank you for your response to my letter expressing my opinion on health care reform with another of your empty, partisan, form letters written by someone on your staff. I truly appreciate the time it took one of your minions to add me to the distribution...

With the Copenhagen conference and "Climategate," the Internet and the media are abuzz with climate change.  I think more rational voices are being drowned out, though, by the bickering between those that have become polarized in the political debate.  (Gee, does that sound familiar?)  The lines between good science, good problem solving, and good policy have been blurred to everyone's detriment.  Let's try to unravel this Gordian knot a bit.First, the science.I was a climate...

As you know, COP 15, the UN annual climate conference, opens next week in Copenhagen.  Last year, at COP 14 in Poznan, Poland, a framework for negotiation of a successor program to the Kyoto Protocol was laid out with high hopes that a definitive agreement could be negotiated at this year's conference.  Those hopes have been dashed in the face of the US and China's standoff and not ready to forward their own enforceable greenhouse...

I thought I would take the next week or so to talk more about energy, energy supply, and climate change.  We'll also talk about the politics surrounding these issues in the United States.COP15 is opening in Copenhagen on December 7.  COP doesn't stand for Copenhagen; it stands for Conference of Parties, annual meetings that grew out of an international treaty, called the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), entered into by 192 countries...

I have had the inestimable pleasure from time to time of watching animated and live action children's movies with my kids. As has always been true, there is as much in them for adults as there is for the kids. Think Popeye, Aladdin, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, The Chronicles of Narnia ... lots of political, religious, social commentary there.I had been putting off watching the movie Wall-E because at some point, I felt...