“Is There Asbestos in My Home?”

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

The short answer to the question, “Is there asbestos in my home?” is “Yes, probably.” How much, where, and whether you should worry, depends mostly on when your home was built and what condition it is in. In the U.S., if your home was built after the mid-1990s there might be ...

Global Warming

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Although An Inconvenient Truth is a great movie (IMO) it wasn't the first to indicate the perils of climatic change. Several years ago, comedian and conservative political pundit Dennis Miller made a crack about global warming. To paraphrase, he said "Who cares if the Earth's temperature goes up a degree or ...