Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
Farewell to the man who invented 'climate change’
A very odd thing happened last
weekend. The death was announced of the man who, in the past 40 years,
has arguably been more influential on global politics than any other
single individual. Yet the world scarcely noticed. Had it not been for this man, we would not last week have seen 150 heads of government joining 40,000 delegates in Paris for that mammoth climate conference:
the 21st such get-together since, in 1992, he masterminded the Rio
“Earth Summit”, the largest political gathering in history. Yet few
people even know his name. Some years back, when I was researching for a book called The Real Global Warming Disaster,
charting how the late-20th-century panic over climate change came
about, few things surprised me more than to discover the absolutely
central role played in the whole story by a Canadian socialist
multimillionaire, Maurice Strong...more
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