Climate Change
The newspaper on Thanksgiving morning carried splendid tidings, the kind that richly deserve praise and thanksgiving. Thank you, Register-Guard.
Page one of the first section noted the return of Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury from Tennessee, where he graduated from Al Gore’s training camp for the fight against global warming. Bradbury is well equipped [...]

Solar
A new supermarket in Eugene plans to provide much of its considerable need for kilowatts by means of a rooftop covered by photovoltaics (solar cells). The price of solar panels has dropped enough to make that feasible for a large commercial operation, and the owners deserve unclouded and enormous praise for doing the right thing. [...]

November. Elections in the United States. One that could alter the political makeup in Washington, an alteration fervently desired by at least some. In all this campaign not a word about failing energy supplies or climate change.
Meanwhile, late last month Her Majesty’s government in Great Britain released the ‘Stern Report’, a seven hundred page study [...]