… to me anyway. This morning I visited Pacheco State Park at the summit of Pacheco Pass between Los Banos and Gilroy. I’ve driven past here for years on my way to/from the Sierra, Death Valley, Los Angeles, but only turned off the road here briefly once a few years ago. This past week I [...]
SFGate: Bush intervention led EPA to scale back ozone limits:
The Environmental Protection Agency weakened one part of its new limits on smog-forming ozone after an unusual, last-minute intervention by President Bush, according to documents released by the EPA.
EPA officials initially tried to set a lower seasonal limit on ozone to protect wildlife, parks and [...]
The same process that derailed the California greenhouse gas automotive regulations seems to be at work here.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced a modest tightening of the smog standard on Wednesday evening, overruling the unanimous advice of its scientific advisory council for a more protective standard.
The standard, stated in terms of average concentrations of ozone at [...]
Calero Trail, Spring. Calero Hills, California. March 8, 2008. Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
NOW is the time to head for the central California hills - the new grass is coming up, the trees are budding, and wildflowers are beginning to emerge. After last year’s drought, this season’s normal or near-normal rainfall [...]
If It Is Getting Warmer, How Come It Seems Colder?
The global warming skeptics will grab at almost any straw rather than see the what consensus now regards as the obvious. This includes misinterpreting some “cold” weather as “proof” that the planet couldn’t possibly be warming and that “all those silly scientists must be wrong.” Or maybe it is a global scientific conspiracy. (To what [...]
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