By Johnny Rook, editor of Climaticide Chronicles A little more than a month ago a United Kingdom court ruled that Greenpeace activists were legally justified in taking action to close down the Kingsnorth coal-fired power plant under the concept of lawful excuse. According to today’s U.K. Guardian: Eleven ... keep reading
Written by Johnny R. in November 2008, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Coal & Oil, Politics & Government
By Johnny Rook, editor of Climaticide Chronicles In the first chapter of his National-Book-Award winning The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, Timothy Egan describes Bam White and his family’s journey in 1926 through Cimarron County, Oklahoma on their way ... keep reading
Written by Johnny R. in October 2008, about Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Water
By Johnny Rook, editor of Climaticide Chronicles A few days ago I wrote about how T. Boone Pickens´s wind power plan is really a cover for his efforts to sell huge amounts of water from the Ogallala aquifer to fast growing, water-wasting Texas cities. Today we´ll take a ... keep reading
Written by Johnny R. in October 2008, about Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, Pollution, Transport
By Johnny Rook, editor of Climaticide Chronicles Let me state my prejudices up front: I don’t think that T. Boone Pickens is an American hero and I don’t trust him any more than I trusted Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood. “What?” you say. “Isn’t Pickens ... keep reading
Written by Johnny R. in October 2008, about Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Economics, Finance & Money, Green energy, Politics & Government (7 comments)
More from Johnny Rook of Climaticide Chronicles. When I last diaried on the breakup of the Wilkins ice shelf there were a great many questions about glacier movement and sea-level rise so I thought that while we are waiting for the Wilkins ice shelf to collapse completely, it would be ... keep reading
Written by Johnny R. in October 2008, about Climate Change, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters
Editor's Note: With this post we welcome Johnny Rook to the Celsias writer's group. Johnny is a linguist and historian by training, and has taught in several universities and colleges, worked launching rockets in the aerospace industry and as an interpreter in the United States Federal Courts. An ... keep reading
Written by Johnny R. in October 2008, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Philosophy & Religion (6 comments)
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