Readings and Links
Climate Change
Article: "Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts"
Author: Andrew C. Revkin
Article: "'Averting Our Eyes': James Hansen's New Call for Climate Action"
Author: James Hansen
A statement by Hansen, a NASA scientist, along with reporting and commentary by NY Times blogger Andrew C. Revkin.
NY Times online, November 28, 2007
Article: "Beware! Tree-Huggers Plot Evil to Save World"
Author: Michiko Kakutani
A review of Michael Crichton's novel, State of Fear (2004) by Michiko Kakutani.
Article: "Bush kills off hopes for G8 climate change plan."
Author:
The Guardian newspaper online, Manchester, England. Friday June 1 2007.
Article: The Case for Skepticism on Global Warming
Author:
Novelist Michael Crichton's speech before the National Press Club, Washington DC, January 25, 2005.
Article: Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming
Author: James Hansen, Mark Bowen.
Dutton, 2007.
Article: Climate Panel Says Immediate Change Is Necessary
Author: Elisabeth Rosenthal
New York Times online, November 18, 2007
Article: "We Call it Life"
Author: Competitive Enterprise Institute
A 2006 ad campaign focusing on the "alleged global warming crisis".
Article: Exxonsecrets.org
Author: Greenpeace
A website, established by Greenpeace, which documents the oil-company funding of "junk science" designed to create public skepticism about global warming.
Article: "Gore Derangement Syndrome"
Author: Paul Krugman
op-ed column by Paul Krugman, The New York Times online, October 15, 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html
Article: Gore Warns Congress of "Planetary Emergency"
Author: Felicity Barringer and Andrew Revkin. NY Times March 22, 2007
Author: Peter N. Spotts
The Christian Science Monitor [online], Wednesday January 31, 2007.
Article: "Planet Gore"
Author: National Review Online
A blog by global warming skeptcis.
Article: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)
Author: Christopher C. Horner, of the Competetive Enterprise Institute.
The book for sale at Amazon.com.
Article: Review of "An Inconvenient Truth"
Author: David Denby for the New Yorker, June 2006
A brief notice written by David Denby of the New Yorker.
Article: A Skeptic's Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism
Author: Senator James Inhofe
U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), former chair of the Environment & Public Works Committee. 2006.
Article: "Step It Up (Communities Uniting for Climate Action Now!)"
Author: stepitup2007.org
Website of an organization Bill McKibben is involved with, promoting this April 14 as a national climate action day.
Article: "U.K. Judge Rules Gore's Climate Film Has 9 Errors"
Author: Mary Jordan
Washington Post Foreign Service, Friday, October 12, 2007; Page A12
Article: "World Scientists Near Consensus on Warming"
Author: James Kanter and Andrew C. Revkin
New York Times, January 30, 2007
Dominion Coal-Fired Power Plant in Wise Co, VA:
Article: Power Plant is Ground Zero in Battle of Energy vs. Environment
Author: Scott Harper
About proposed Dominion Power coal-fired plant in Wise Co.
The Virginian-Pilot, June 22, 2008.
Article: An End to Mountaintop Removal Mining ?
Author: Debra McCown
Reporter / Bristol Herald Courier, August 11, 2008.
Article: Dominion Breaks Ground for Power Plant in Wise
Author: Stephen Igo
Kingsport Times-News, August 14, 2008.
Article: Opposition to Dominion Power Plant Remains Strong
Author: Kathy Selvage
Letter to the editor August 19, 2008.
Article: Restore Power to the People
Author: R. G. Sawdon
Saturday, 23 August 2008.
Energy, Mountaintop Removal Mining in Appalachia, and the Cost of Coal:
Article: Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
Author: Jeff Goodell.
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Article: �Coal Company Hit With E.P.A.�s Largest Civil Penalty�
Author: Ian Urbina
About Don Blankenship and Massey Energy NY Times online, January 17, 2008
Article: Coal Industry Plugs Into the CampaignAuthor: Steven Mufson Washington Post, Friday, January 18, 2008; Page D01Article: "Coal River: How a Few Brave Americans Took on a Powerful Company--and the Federal Government--to Save the Land They Love" Author: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Article: "Death of a Mountain: Radical Strip Mining and the Leveling of Appalachia" Author: Erik Reece. Harper's Magazine, April 2005: 41-60. (Reece made that article into Lost Mountain -- a Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia, New York: Riverhead (Penguin), 2006. Click here for a review by Ira Boudway, Feb 15, 2006)Article: The Government Sanctioned Bombing of Appalachia Author: Antrim Caskey AlterNet.org, Tuesday 09 October 2007.
Article: Gray Acres: Up Close and Personal with East Tennessee's Coal Mining Industry
Author: Leslie Wyle
Leslie Wyle from Knoxville's "Metro Pulse." posted Feb 6, 2007.
Article: Litigation Update: Zeb Mountain in Tennessee
Author: Appalachian Voices
February 2, 2007
Article: The Long Emergency: What's Going to Happen As We Start Running Out of Cheap Gas to Guzzle?
Author: James Howard Kunstler
Rolling Stone Magazine, online, Mar 24, 2005
Article: Mountains Into Molehills
Author: Timothy Eagan
NY Times review of Michael Shnayerson's book, "Coal River".
Article: "Mountaintop Rescue"
Author:
Editorial on mountaintop removal
NY Times, March 29, 2007
Article: "The Rape of Appalachia (Department: Politics and Power)"
Author: Michael Shnayerson
Vanity Fair, May 2006
Article: The Return of King Coal: Destructive Mining on Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau Makes a Comeback
Author: Lisa Robbins
Nashville Scene, June 8, 2006
Article: Tennessee Coal Road Blocked to Protest Mountaintop Removal Mining
Author:
Environmental News Service, August 15, 2005
Article: Under Mined: When a Flood of Toxic Mining Sludge Wreaked Havoc in Appalachia, How Did the White House Respond? By Letting the Coal Company Off the Hook and Firing the Whistleblower
Author: Clara Bingham
The "whistleblower" of the title is Jack Spadaro, who spoke at ETSU's Reece museum on March 21, 2007.
Washington Monthly January/ February 2005.
Article: Wall Street Shows Skepticism Over Coal: Banks Push Utilities to Plan for Impact of Emissions Caps
Author: Jeffrey Ball
Wall Street Journal, Feb 4 2008.
Article: Zeb Mountain Mining May Continue, Federal Court Says
Author: ConstructionEquipmentGuide.com
ConstructionEquipmentGuide.com, March 15, 2005
Miscellaneous News:
Article: Nuclear Scare: How Close Did Sweden Come to Disaster ?
Author: Philip Bethge and Sebastian Knauer.
Spiegel International, August 7, 2006 (an analysis of the incident at the Forsmark 1 nuclear power plant, which was featured in the film, "The Nuclear Comeback," screened at ETSU on Oct 21, 2008)
Article: More Sadness for Appalachia
Author: Editorial
The Bush administration is writing one more sad chapter in the long, tortured history of Appalachia�s coal-rich hills. New York Times, October 21, 2008
Article: Gore Urges Civil Disobedience to Stop Coal Plants
Author: Michelle Nichols. Reuters, Wednesday Sep 24, 2008.
Article: Candidates Agree on Mountaintop Removal
Author: Ken Ward Jr., Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette, September 21, 2008.
Article: "And Then There Was One"
Author: Thomas Friedman. New York Times, September 2, 2008.
Op-ed piece comparing Obama and McCain on environmental issues important to college students.
Article: Last Salvos Fired in TVA Trial: Vow To Cut Emissions Isn't Enough, N.C. Says
Author: Anne Paine, Tennesseean.com, July 31, 2008
Article: Congressman Fly Over Mountaintop Mining Sites
Author: Cassondra Kirby-Mullins. Lexington Herald-Leader. July 26, 2008.
Article: "Crossing the Line for Zeb Mountain"
Author:
Four people arrested in anti-mtr protest in East Tennessee.
Mon July 21, 2008. Facing South (Duke U Institute for Southern Studies)
Article: "Yes We Can."
Author: Bob Herbert. New York Times July 19, 2008.
Columnist comments on Al Gore's plan for America to shift to renewable energy.
Article: Gore Sets 'Moon Shot' Goal on Climate Change
Author: Ron Fournier, Associated Press, Thurs July 17
Article: State Tax Money Pays for Coal Industry's Mining Promotion
Author: John Cheves, Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader, May 15 2008.
State tax dollars pay for industry claims that mountaintop removal is good for the environment.
Article: Senate OK's New Coal-Mining Rules; House Panel Could Consider Reversing Earlier Vote to Kill Bill
Author: Tom Humphrey. Knoxnews.com [Knoxville TN]. Thursday, April 17, 2008.
Article: Global Warming Has a New Battleground: Coal Plants
Author: Judy Pasternak. Los Angeles Times. April 14, 2008.
Author: Friends of the Earth Press Release. March 20, 2008.
Miscellaneous
Article: Our Oceans Are Turning Into Plastic...Are We?
Author: Susan Casey.
Online, from Best Life Magazine, Feb 20, 2007