(Forecast for 3-5 in Concord Wednesday but we need more than that!) Climate change has a direct economic impact on the state of New Hampshire. Coming off of the warmest year on record, and an unseasonably warm January, the small businesses that depend on winter tourism and snow related service and maintenance are suffering for a second year in [...]
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Fix Congress to Fix Climate Change
America and the world have had quite an awful time the past few years with wild weather–drought, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, wind, heat. Many people in our country have died in these natural disasters, and New Hampshire has had its share of trouble. While we use the word “natural,” most people now believe that these disasters [...]
Rabid Ideologues Will Destroy Us
By susanthe on June 23, 2012 in
Tags: climate change, economy, NH, Paul Krugman, prison privatization
This was published as an op-ed in the June 22, 2012 edition of the Conway Daily Sun newspaper. The state of NH is looking into privatizing its entire prison system. Four companies have submitted bids. If Governor Lynch and the Executive Council accept one of those bids, NH would become the first state in the [...]
In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s dry out there
I am watering my daffodils. I planted them over 15 years ago and I have never had to water them when they were blooming. They are beautiful and give me a great deal of joy. They are also early this year. I was checking out our local on-line newspaper, the one I serve on [...]
Al Gore is still fat
Short diary from the wonderful iPad we won in the NHPR raffle, now my connection to the Internet since the cable is down. Steve Benen notes that the right wing apparently only understands the concept of warm/cold, and has no idea of how precipitation works in relationship to the ability of warmer air to hold [...]
Texas is burning
I came upon this map which was linked to a diary on Daily Kos today. And then a Facebook friend posted this as well. Then I listened to a chapter of this book while exercising. And I decided it was time to remind you all that we are very, very close to losing any chance [...]
New Hampshire Legislature Playing a Dangerous Game with National Security and Clean Energy
By M. Rodriguez on September 2, 2011 in
Tags: climate change, Climate Security, Energy Security, national security, Oil Addiction, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Clean-renewable energy is not just an environmental issue, it is a National Security one. Keeping it, and treating it solely as an environmental issue or political tertiary priority, is not just dangerous to our environment, but our entire National Security. The consideration of our State Legislature to remove New Hampshire from the [...]
The More Things Change, The More He Stays the Same
Charlie Bass is embarking on his fourth decade of political life. He’s keen on fitting in with the new crowd (Nat’l Journal, but paywalled): Take Charlie Bass, R-N.H., the only member of Congress to ride both the 1994 and 2010 Republican waves into public office, who says he will fit into the 112th Congress better [...]
Meanwhile, on the NH seacoast,
the Concord Monitor raises the question of who will pay if, as is now predicted, the sea level rises 5-6 feet over the next century (or maybe sooner?). If the sea level along the New Hampshire coast rises by five feet, U.S. Geological Service maps show more than half the structures in Hampton Beach underwater [...]
A reminder – re: maple syrup & the local economy -
that while we are bogged down in a very important disagreement about taxes and spending, climate change is gathering steam: Rock said the acceleration of global warming, which began in the early 1900s, became “more aggressive” from the 1970s on. He said all the warmest years on record have occurred within the last 12. He [...]
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