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Al Gore on Live Earth: Live Webcast on July 5 with Simran Sethi The Live Earth countdown is in its final days (the concerts are this Saturday, July 7), but before Madonna performs her new song or Spinal Tap and the rest of the headliners inspire headbanging and other consciousness-raising behavior on all seven continents, Al Gore wants to talk global warming with you. In an exclusive webcast at 1:30 pm Eastern time on July 5 (that's this Thursday!) moderated by TreeHugger's green media maven, Simran Sethi, Gore will answer reader-submitted questions about the climate crisis. "Whether you have questions...

KERBY — A 40-foot log used by protesters to block access to the Mike's Gulch timber salvage sale in a roadless area of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest Tuesday morning was cut from a nearby botanical area, according to forest officials. One irate activist called it a "petty" point, and said the U.S. Forest Service and John West, president of the firm that purchased the roadless sale, had cut countless trees illegally [snip] Illinois Valley resident Annette Rasch, a longtime environmental activist who was at the protest, discounted the issue. She said she did not know where the log came...

POCATELLO - To the rest of the country, Scott Stevens is the Idaho weatherman who blames the Japanese Mafia for Hurricane Katrina. To folks in Pocatello, he's the face of the weather at KPVI News Channel 6. The Pocatello native made his final Channel 6 forecast Thursday night, leaving a job he's held for nine years in order to pursue his weather theories on a full-time basis. "I'm going to miss that broadcast, but I'm not going to miss not getting home until 11 p.m.," Stevens said. "I just don't have the hours of the day to take care of...

Halting the March of Unreason reviewed by Henry I. Miller "Drunk as a lord" hardly applies to Lord Taverne of Pimlico, the sober, polymathic and persuasive author of "The March of Unreason" (Oxford University Press). Although not a scientist himself, Taverne, a Queen's Counsel (an especially learned barrister appointed to advise Her Britannic Majesty), former member of the British Parliament and currently member of the House of Lords, offers a spirited defense of science and its evidence-based approach to public policy. He argues that "in the practice of medicine, popular approaches to farming and food, policies to reduce hunger and...

Note: I have a personal website left over from the days when my self-penned John Denver tribute song was on the radio and for sale. (No more) I have since filled the site with anti-Kerry and anti-abortion information. :)) Here is the latest leftist comment to me.... ==================================================== LEFTIST EMAIL: My God, what a hate filled site this is, not that I care much for Kerry or for one party over the other...... What I want to know is, how can the subject of this website claim any affinity with John Denver, when he supports the most anti environmental president...

Smoke from torched bluegrass fields contains up to eight times more lung-aggravating small particles than burned wheat stubble or forest fires, a new study says. The Washington State University study also found that baling bluegrass stubble on Idaho's irrigated Rathdrum Prairie before torching the fields doesn't reduce smoke. However, the same process worked to cut smoke by 66 percent at dryland test sites near Worley on the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, the study says. "This is information we didn't have before. There was more variability in the fields than we'd realized," said Dan Redline of the Idaho Department of Environmental...