February 20, 2012 - Have you seen that picture of the Amazon that looks like it ought to be captioned "Iowa Farmland?" It's been awhile since I saw it, but it's difficult to forget my dumbfounded surprise when I realized it was actually a picture of the Amazon rainforest. I recall lovely rows of something being grown - it was resplendently green - with a pathetic patch of forest, growing so avidly it broke the heart to see its eagerness, having been beaten back into a corner of the picture. My gosh, didn't my soul just ache. If it were possible to take a picture of avarice, that surely was it. What a loss, what a loss, what a loss. All the more reason, then, for the rest of the world to take care of their forest heritage. I have good news to share on that point, good in more ways than one. A federal appeals court in Denver has refused to review the Clinton administration's rule barring most logging and road building in nearly 60 mill...
Understanding the global-warming world: causes and ramifications.