Time to reduce mercury levels of the fish in the waters of Montana. More later.
For me, the free, preferred online source for a daily collection of news releases of what’s going on with the “Economies” of the USA, Europe and China, is Zero Hedge.
For important USA-international news avoided by Main Stream Media, I often turn to What Really Happened. Both of those internet sites put out a steady stream of text and graphic messages in opposition to global warming and climate change.
For a decade many newspapers frequently reinforced the message: No human caused global warming and climate change.
Of course, problem is that Montana glaciers have not yet gotten the message. Winters did not get the message. This year, high summer pasture did not get the message and dried up and forced sales of cattle lots had to happen.
Dry forests in Alaska did not get the message, and blew up with dozens and dozens of fires requiring emergency response from lower USA. (Montana based wildfire fighters were at max draw down, hoping no impending wildfire disaster in Montana.)
Warming waters off the west coast of Alaska did not get the message about no global warming.
Of course, Russian oil exploration and Royal Dutch Shell, also the US Navy, denied the message and broke the code. They knew El Nino was going to return. Warming is all too obvious in and around Alaska.
Of course, my lonely snow shovels say there has long been warming here in the Bitterroot. Haven’t used tire chains for last three winters. Been burning three instead of four cords of firewood.
How will this winter start? Once again I rely on the always improving website: National Weather Service, and scroll way down past the map and satellite images, look under “Forecast” and click on “Drought” and then stare at drought maps of the Western USA for last part of 2015.
Stuff like that and what Science I get, all seem in agreement. Been that way for a long time. For the last decade the questioning of global warming has usually seemed like yesterday’s question.
Because the day to day moral questions involve what different people do about oceans, and atmosphere and land mass warming up. (Drying up in some places.) Organized church groups have made declarations. Political assemblies have been thrashing out what Congress should do. Religious leaders have spoken out. And recently came the teaching by Pope Francis.
Greedy destruction of air and water environments involves the “rupture”(violent breaking apart), of two big sins. 1) sin against Creation. 2) sin against “neighbor,” on this earthly “home.”
And for those who profess that mankind is made in the image of God,
then turn around and destroy clean air and water environments, 3) those professors also sin against the image of God.
That’s the take home teaching this Protestant gets out of the first Encyclical on climate change.
Do not put that in your pipe and smoke it. That’s what others have done. Do try and understand the mainstream media campaign to gag news about what Pope Francis is doing, then proceed to obscure, twist and diminish his teachings.
Sorry this got so long, but there’s an easy ending. The need for a moral response, a religious response, to global climate change in the USA quickly gets a whole lot easier when you start by removing expensive incentives to fossil fuels.
For a specific subject, go to the Billings Gazette for quality journalism about the Montana Coal Tax give away reality story. For eye-popping video about how coal companies are greedily destroying part of Montana, go to the unique website, East of Billings, browse around then type “intrinsic worth” in the search box, and watch a real good video.
In general, look at oligopolies and trans-nationals receiving large incentives/subsidies/tax and royalty privileges while disposing carbon dioxide waste loads into the atmosphere.
Especially if those loads add up, to also load up mercury in stream and river fisheries of waters held in Trust by the State of Montana.
Bob Williams
Stevensville