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A local diesel mechanic named Gabe Desalvo has disproved global warming through the careful study of his surroundings, NewWest.Net has learned.
“See the icicle on that ’87 Monte Carlo,” Desalvo said, motioning to a thick ice form clinging to the bumper of a rusted muscle car slouched in his front yard.
“They ain’t been that huge since the winter of ought-3,” he said, referring to the unusually cold months of 2003 that produced some of the “girthiest” icicles Desalvo has ever seen.
The 31st annual Public Land Law Conference, Rocky Mountain Energy Leadership: Strategies for a New Energy Future, begins today at the University of Montana in Missoula. This evening Patricia Limerick will deliver the keynote address, titled "The Power of the Rockies: Living with Energy in the Old West, the New West, and the Next West." Limerick is the faculty director and chair of the board of the Center of the American West and co-author of "What Every Westerner Should Know About Energy" and "What Every Westerner Should Know About Energy Efficiency and Conservation." Her talk begins at 7:00 p.m. at the University Center Theater.
The conference runs through midday Wednesday. Click here for the full schedule and registration information and here for the conference brochure (opens PDF). And check back with NewWest.Net/Missoula for coverage of Limerick's talk.
The Wilderness Act of 1964 defines wilderness areas as places “where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man.” If you take that definition for what it is, as I do, you will likely conclude that mining is prohibited in designated wilderness areas. Imagine my bewilderment, then, at the proposal for Rock Creek Mine, which calls for digging and blasting under the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness of northwest Montana. A mine in a federally designated wilderness area? But silly me—the mine isn’t in the wilderness, it’s under it. And thanks to the 1872 mining law, that’s permitted. Here I thought the ground I was hiking on, all of it, all the way down to the earth’s core, was protected.
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The Hummer (any Hummer) has become the default "bad car" in many folks' minds. Indeed, every sighting of a "Dummer" elicits snide remarks among my friends—well-earned, I might add.
Perhaps we shouldn't be so hasty to judge? According to GreenerCars.com, there are at least 12 "meaner" vehicles, in terms of their environmental impact. And nine of them can be seen on the roads in western mountain towns as often as you might see a Hummer.
