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• Global Warming Approaches a Crisis Point
  by Phil Eisner
  January 30, 2011

  The path our planet has taken in its trip through time has reached an ominous fork, one path leading to climate disaster, the other to...

• The Election and the Environment
  by Phil Eisner
  November 24, 2010

  A lot has happened to our planet since my last column. Two directly competing streams of thought have dramatically clashed. One is the...

• The Gulf Oil Spill in a Global Warming Perspective
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  While the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is deplorable and may very well eventually ruin the shores of several Gulf States, it does prov...

• The Oil Spill and Global Warming
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  What does the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have to do with global warming? A great deal, because a large fraction of our carbon dioxid...

• Global Warming - The Media vs. The Scientists
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  As the years go on by, the greatest story of this century, Global Warming. is not being told. At the very least, our media is not telling...

• Will The U.S. Help Stop Global Warming In Time?
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  We were forewarned for months that the U.S. Senate was not inclined to go along with the House bill on Global Warming, the Waxman-Markey ...

• Climate versus Weather
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  A week before I began writing this column, my wife and I discussed what we thought was a peculiar but deliberate policy of The New York T...

• Nature's Response to Global Warming
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  It seems to me that it would be interesting to look around and see the changes I have observed in nature over the last few decades that p...

• Methane/Natural Gas
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  Methane, CH4, is a common gas here on earth. It is found in the atmosphere, buried in garbage dumps, and deep in the ground, often in com...

• The Copenhagen Conference
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  During the time I have been writing these columns on global warming much has happened in the environment, in scientific research, and in ...

• Copenhagen Agreement
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  What has been accomplished at the December Copenhagen meeting to mitigate global warming? I did not expect miracles so I was not disappoi...

• China and Global Warming
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  I have been in China twice, both times in and around Hong Kong. There was terrible air pollution then (1990's) and from all the reports ...

• James Hansen's Latest Warning
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  I thought that for this column I would try a book review of a new book by the scientist that has most influenced my thinking about global...

• Will We Stop Global Warming In Time?
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  The Copenhagen Conference was a failure. It was chaotic, overcrowded, and eventually accomplished very little except putting off definiti...

• Global Warming News
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  Since I began writing these Saving Our Planet columns almost a year ago, I have generally been pessimistic about our chances of actually ...

• It's Time To Face Facts
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  The other night I heard a lecture (on YouTube) given by a Stanford professor of the history of science, Naomi Oreskes, who has co-written...

• Sustainability - A Philosophical Aside
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  People often express their goal in life as a desire to "contribute to mankind in some way." Perhaps it will be in music, dance, or art; s...

• Global Warming And The Melting of Glaciers And Ice
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  A few weeks ago we had an enormous amount of rain in our area. Many streets were flooded so that to get around by car, detours were commo...

• Automobiles of the Future
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  We cannot get along without it! It is so convenient! The automobile in our garage or driveway is a vital part of our American suburban cu...

• CO2 Emission Reductions and Wind and Nuclear Power
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  On July 13th, early in the morning, Paul Krugman's New York Times column on the Op Ed page greeted me at breakfast. He succinctly said w...

• Solar Power
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  More than 45 years ago I attended an American Physical Society national meeting in Boulder, Colorado, at which a plenary session speaker ...

• Can We Save The Planet?
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  I'm feeling philosophical this week. I've had an opportunity to sit back and think harder about the seven newspaper columns I have writt...

• Climate Change and Morality
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  Countries and their populations can take four types of action in regards to scientists' warnings about dangerous CO2-produced global war...

• Business and Global Warming
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  The main theme of this column is business opportunities brought on by global warming/climate change and our efforts to prevent increasin...

• Sustainability
  by Philip Eisner
  August 28, 2010

  "We won't find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system."
 (Stephen Hawking) "What good am I if I know and d...