Several well informed gentleman Bill Hughes and Ed Wade came to our community in Athens Ohio to warn the people in our area about the horrific problems that they have been dealing with the fracking industry in Wetzel county West Virginia. Polluted waters, gas releases, fires, huge trucks rolling over, blocking traffic for hours endandering school buses etc etc. Would be great if Diane had these two fellas on. Can your guest discuss how states like Ohio are trying to avoid enforcing federal environmental standards in regard to this extraction industry. If it is so safe why not honor all state and federal envirnomental standards? Wetzel County Action Groupwww.wcag-wv.org/Cached - Similar You +1'd this publicly. Undo Ray Renaud resigns from Wetzel County Action Group - ... Continue reading →

By Nina Chestney LONDON | Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:03pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Extreme weather events over the past decade have increased and were "very likely" caused by manmade global warming, a study in the journal Nature Climate Change said on Sunday. Scientists at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Research used physics, statistical analysis and computer simulations to link extreme rainfall and heat waves to global warming. The link between warming and storms was less clear."It is very likely that several of the unprecedented extremes of the past decade would not have occurred without anthropogenic global warming," said the study.The past decade was probably the warmest globally for at least a millennium. Last year was the eleventh hottest on record, the World Meteorological Organization ... Continue reading →

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As I noted in a recent article, the debate over climate science has come to resemble other angry battles in the nation’s culture wars. Much as one might dislike the idea of the earth’s future being decided in a shouting match, that seems to be the reality of the situation we are in.Columbia University PressNow comes a firsthand account of what it is like to be caught up in such turmoil. In a new book called “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars,” Michael E. Mann, a scientist at Pennsylvania State University, gives readers an inside look at a string of skirmishes going back to 1999 in which he has played a central role. Many of these center on the famous “hockey stick,” a reconstruction ... Continue reading →