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James Hansen, Today’s Cassandra

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 — Twenty-two years ago today James Hansen testified before Congress that the world’s climate was changing, and we had better do something about it. Two years ago he appeared before Congress again, reiterated his message of two decades earler, and added that we had used up whatever slack time we may have had. Aside from additional climatological studies, the only significant development during this period has been the growth of a climate change denial industry. The National Academy of Sciences has now published a paper, “Expert credibility in climate change,” finding that “97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in …

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It’s, Uh, Gas

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 — On this day in 1969, Ohio’s Cuyahoga River ignited and burned for twenty minutes, nearly destroying two railroad bridges. It was perhaps the dozenth time in 101 years that the river had burned, but this time, Randy Newman wrote a song about it. [audio:https://www.nhgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/burnon.mp3|titles=Burn On] Thank God the blight of petrochemical pollution of our vital waterways has ended. Who says there’s no such thing as progress? Wait a minute …. What’s this? HBO apparently aired a documentary yesterday featuring a Colorado man setting the water streaming from his kitchen tap on fire.

Happy Solstice, Heathens

Monday, June 21, 2010 — The Summer Solstice arrived on schedule at 7:28 Eastern, and to mark the occasion our Starving Artiste, Mike Dater, has shared with us the little drawing shown above. In our paper, of course, since we’re too cheap, lazy and hidebound to use color, we can only reproduce Mike’s work in black, white, and shades of gray. So it’s a pleasure to have an excuse to show off his palette here. For more, see this link. It was on this day in 1977 that H.R. Haldeman, who once described himself as “Nixon’s son of a bitch,” first heard from the inside …

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The Fall of Saigon

Friday, April 30, 2010 — Thirty-five years ago today North Vietnamese tanks knocked down the gates of the Independence Palace in Saigon and the Vietnam War ended. To the extent that wars ever end.