Sep
04
2023
What did you think during last couple of decades when scientists “warned” that sea level was rising more than three millimeters a year? Or when they were “alarmed” that the temperature was warming “so fast” that in 5 to...
Dec
11
2022
While some regular readers believe I’m not very nice and have been very, very naughty this year, I’m keeping my fingers crossed and putting together a Christmas list anyway.
To increase my chances, I’ll leave it next to a plate...
Jul
25
2022
With his book “The Greatest Generation,” TV journalist Tom Brokaw bestowed a lasting coronation upon Americans born between the early 1900s and the mid-1920s.
Who could argue? They weathered the hardships of the Great Depression, paid with their blood and...
Jun
13
2022
How are climate change, Winston Churchill and pay-go related?
I promise you’ll understand.
Recently a growing number of conservative states have been seeking billions in taxpayer funding to “adapt” to the growing impacts of climate change.
For example, solid-red Texas is getting...
Apr
18
2022
Do Louisianans think the way schools teach the nation’s history with slavery is the reason soaring flood insurance rates might soon make home ownership impossible in some communities?
Do they believe that teachers mentioning gay couples is why Lake Charles,...
Apr
04
2022
What do Mardi Gras, mosquitoes, and plastics have in common?
I’ll start with the calls I heard from krewe members and parade-goers at this year’s Mardi Gras.
You know, the ones that went like this:
“Hey, Mister! Throw me some higher sea...
Mar
21
2022
Last month New Orleans crossed a historic benchmark. The Big Easy was given a new, more accurate nickname.
Welcome to life in “The Big Risky.”
That’s the verdict from the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the collection...
Feb
21
2022
Recent headlines had me thinking about a question I posed five years ago to a coastal legislator. He opposed regulations on fossil fuel emissions, fearing they would hurt the oil businesses that employed his voters.
“Don’t you think you have...
Oct
04
2021
Every Louisiana politician—but especially members of the state’s GOP congressional delegation like Steve Scalise—should start each day by repeating this statement often credited to the great painter and ornithologist John James Audubon:
“A true conservationist is a man who knows...
Sep
03
2021
I think I’ve discovered a way to get Louisiana politicians to stop denying the truth that the only way to prevent the Gulf of Mexico from swallowing much of the state’s bottom third within the next four decades is...
