Category Archives: Environment

Spill Baby Spill

May 9, 2010 – 12:10 am

“Drill Drill Drill.” was the GOP mantra from Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign. America was hungry for gas. The price at the pump that summer was almost $4. THe Hummer died within two years. Even Chinese money couldn’t save the symbol of American over-spending, however the US government realized the importance of self-sufficiency […]

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Warmth of Winter

January 7, 2010 – 8:51 am

My friends are reacting to the prolonged cold snap by discounting the research of thousands of scientists with the simplistic query. “Where’s global warming now?” My attempts to explain the ever-increasing swings in weather extremes are in vain. “But it’s cold and the planet is supposedly to be getting warm.” “There’s 6 billion people on […]

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One Billion 2050

December 11, 2009 – 10:44 pm

Copenhagen is a nice city. Someone once said that Denmark was the perfect country. It scored high in the Happiness Index for 2009. I was there in 1982. The DJ from Bsir’s and I were on a road trip. We drank beer in the Tivoli Garden and ate herring along the harbor. I bought Maxie […]

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Bangkok 2050

September 9, 2009 – 9:12 pm

Back in 2009 2bangkok.com published a map showing the coastal change along the Gulf of Siam should the sea rise by several meters. Bangkok would vanish, as would most of the surrounding lowlands. Ang Thong now 150 klicks from the sea would be a beach resort. So start investing up north. We will be creating […]

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Tsunami 2004 plus 4

December 26, 2008 – 4:14 pm

Four years ago today I was kayaking off Koh Samet. The tour boat had dropped me the southern end of the island and I paddled to a distant island. It was deserted and I was dehydrated by the time I returned to the hotel. Ordering a beer was impossible, because everyone in the bar was […]

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