Sunday, December 14, 2025

ARTICLES BY ERIC GRIMSRUD

OPINION: Zinke's position on coal sales challenged

As reported in a short news story in the Daily Inter Lake on July 10, the Obama administration is presently trying to correct what it believes are inappropriate sales of Montana coal deposits — by which the coal companies involved are trying to avoid paying the state of Montana the …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Climate change is a scientific reality

We’re Montanans who also happen to be scientists. As scientists, we understand the scientific principles demonstrating that human activity is rapidly changing our climate. That is why we joined more than 100 other scientists across Montana in sending a letter to our top elected officials calling on them to support …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Climate change is a scientific reality

We’re Montanans who also happen to be scientists. As scientists, we understand the scientific principles demonstrating that human activity is rapidly changing our climate. That is why we joined more than 100 other scientists across Montana in sending a letter to our top elected officials calling on them to support …
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Possible benefits of the Oregon tuition plan

An idea that originated in Oregon concerning the payment of student tuition in the public institutions of higher learning is now being widely considered throughout the USA.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

The Gilded Age: What if Lincoln had been in charge?

Part I provided a snap shot of the Gilded Age, including some of the good and the bad. It is true that the weak central governments of that time (late 1860s to last 1890s) did not interfere much, if any, with the explosion of economic activity and wealth that occurred …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

The Gilded Age: All that glitters is not gold

The Republican leadership of today argues that life in the USA will improve in proportion to the extent to which the role of government is decreased and the role of business interests is increased without the restrictions of federal regulations.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

What one local reader says about Pat Boone: He's still singing 'white-washed' tunes

You have all probably noticed the advertisements recently shown in Montana in which Pat Boone, one of my generation’s popular singers in the 1950s, has been “educating” that same generation — who are now senior citizens — concerning threats posed by President Obama and Sen. Tester to our Medicare system.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Climate science not 'from the left'

In his letter of Jan. 27, Mark Agather suggested that my scientific recommendation concerning global warming and those of all of our country’s leading scientific organizations are not credible because they come from the “far left” of the political spectrum.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

The obvious energy policy not being considered

While we throw money here and there at various forms of both alternate and conventional sources of energy, we are not developing a sensible and sustainable national energy policy because the best and most obvious of policies is not favored by corporate America and our elected officials.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS AGO

Extreme weather points to man-caused global warming

There still seems to be considerable confusion and misunderstanding today concerning whether or not the extreme weather events being experienced around the world and throughout Montana provide evidence of man-caused global warming. While no individual weather events can be ascribed to global warming, increases in the frequency and intensity of …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

A 'progress' report on climate change

Like the crew and passengers on the Titanic when it was cruising through the North Atlantic on the evening of April 14, 1912, far too many Americans presently believe that we can navigate our way through the most imminent threat before us by using a marginally feasible “third option” for …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

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