The Planet 3.0 post I was praising the other day has generated an interesting thread, especially this exchange, which starts with a great question from one commenter: Can I ask, particularly of those who are professionally immersed in this, does the difficulty in talking about extreme events stem from a genuine lack of knowledge and…Continue Reading…
I’m very much intrigued by a paper published this week (by Simon Donner) in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. It touches on themes that are of longstanding interest to me. I have a short riff on Simon’s paper at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media.
This is interesting. But the response to it in some quarters should be more interesting.
Michael Tobis impresses with this nuanced explication of a sticky issue. He asks: The question is how we should be thinking about extreme events. Notably, extreme weather events, and extreme environmental events of sorts that are connected to weather and climate, such as wildfires and infestations. There is a tendency for those of us who…Continue Reading…
As I’ve previously discussed, the most disconcerting turn in the population debate in recent times (at least in the U.S.) is the anti-immigrant factions that have co-opted it. But the approaching 7 billion mark has generated a new round of population chatter and news stories. At the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media,…Continue Reading…
This story can BEST be told in a series of headlines, tweets, and quotes. Andy Revkin kicks it off: Skeptic Talking Point Melts Away as an Inconvenient Physicist Confirms Warming Pshaw, says Anthony Watts: The Berkeley Earth Station Surface Temperature project puts PR before peer review Leo Hickman: What a surprise: Anthony Watts is crying foul over…Continue Reading…
A scholar surveys “the sorry history of international climate policy” and wonders when enough will be enough: The road from Rio to Kyoto to Bali to Copenhagen to Cancun is littered with procrastination, obfuscation, and empty promises. For example, all major countries including the United States agreed to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…Continue Reading…
If a picture, as the adage goes, says a thousand words, then I take umbrage to a picture of an emaciated Somali child being used as a prop in this post. For the meaning of it does not support the text. I went over to Climate Progress and left this comment: The picture accompanying this…Continue Reading…
This story in yesterday’s NYT, titled “What happened to global warming?” has stirred some discussion over why a sizable bloc of Americans aren’t taking climate change seriously. Brad Plumer in the Washington Post says it’s a “great piece,” while Joe Romm grits his teeth at what he considers a big omission. I offer my take…Continue Reading…
I haven’t read Paul Gilding’s The Great Disruption yet, but I know that the book’s thesis has been accepted by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has written about it repeatedly, including a column earlier this week. In recent years, Friedman has come to view the global economic recession, climate change, and social uprisings…Continue Reading…