Articles by John McGrath
John McGrath is an intinerant student and sometimes reporter currently living in Toronto, Canada. He mainly writes about Canadian and International Politics from an energy and climate perspective
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Suburban commutes are money-losers
A study of Washington and 27 other metropolitan areas by the Center for Housing Policy found that the costs of one-way commutes of as little as 12 to 15 miles -- roughly the distance between Gaithersburg and Bethesda -- cancel any savings on lower-priced outer-suburban homes.
More below.
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Maybe we shouldn’t be courting the religious demographic
While I'm loath to disagree with Al Gore on anything -- much less political strategy -- I have a number of reservations about the environmental movement actively courting the religious demographic. Most of them are irrelevant to the larger discussion, but an article in The New York Times makes me wonder if we aren't being overly tactical in our thinking, at the expense of a long-term strategy.
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Not cool
Via Jonathan at PastPeak, this horrifying story from the Chicago Tribune about the melting arctic:
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Fully built climate satellite left sitting unused in warehouse
This article at Seed is astonishing:
At a time when the Earth's climate is at the top of practically every nation's agenda, it might seem perplexing that there's a $100 million, fully completed climate-sensing satellite stored in a warehouse in Maryland ... Could the decision to kill DSCOVR have anything to do with the politics of climate science?
The shocking answer after the jump!
