It’s pretty difficult for me to believe that anyone can deny that climate change is the result of emissions from the use of fossil fuels. I would think that a single picture from Beijing, China, would convince anyone that pollution is the most destructive element in the environment. The melting of the polar icecap, increased […]
I have long maintained that the intelligence quotient of the average American has greatly declined in the last 30 years. Our nation reads little, and researches subjective information even less. Our people spend time playing video games, and watching television. The latter is the biggest culprit; for some unknown reason, people believe what they see […]
For climate change skeptics, recent days have been a prime example that climate scientists have exaggerated the global warming scare, with temperatures in the eastern US dropping 5 to 25 degrees F below average. However, even with this second round of anomalously low temperatures, 2014 average temperatures are not unusual in the longer temperature record, […]
Snowshoe hares, the hares native to mountain ranges in North America, are hares that change color from brown to white as fall changes to winter and back to brown when spring comes around. As climate change has had an increasingly larger effect on when snow actually begins to fall and the duration for which it […]
The US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced in July the publication of a new peer-reviewed document designed to help shape the future of conservation policy. The document, “Considering Multiple Futures: Scenario Planning to Address Uncertainty in Natural Resource Conservation,” introduces a planning method called scenario planning to policy managers and provides 12 conservation case […]