Can Hollywood save the planet from global warming? The LA Times reports that Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary General, made his sales pitch last week at a UN outreach event: “I need your support,” he told entertainment industry insiders during a daylong forum Tuesday that focused on recent heat waves, floods, fires and drought,…Continue Reading…
In the New York Times magazine, Judith Warner assesses the collective GOP stance on global warming and speculates: Whoever emerges as the Republican presidential candidate in 2012 will very likely have to embrace climate-change denial. I think she’s right, which means an issue that normally doesn’t factor into national elections may well have a high…Continue Reading…
Freeman Dyson and Steve Connor, the science editor of The Independent, had a long email conversation that neither found very satisfying.
Mike Tidwell, a journalist turned activist, has published a how-to-ride-out-the-climate apocalypse instructional in The Washington Post. Years ago, global warming had already put Tidwell on high alert. But events in the last year have elevated his personal threat level: Now I’m changing my life again. Today, underneath the solar panels, there’s a new set of…Continue Reading…
I always find it odd when bloggers complain about getting too many comments from readers who disagree with them. Most writers looking to tell a story or communicate a message want to reach as large an audience as possible. So I don’t get Chris Mooney here: Hmm, have we got any denier bots here? I’m…Continue Reading…
Andrew Freedman of the WaPo’s Capital Weather Gang nicely captures my philosophy: I’ve never been a fan of absolutes. People who espouse rigid beliefs – be they about climate change, religion, or politics (or a mix of all three) – instinctively make me question their evidence. As a reporter, I tend to see things in…Continue Reading…
The evolution of Judith Curry, the outspoken Georgia Tech climate scientist, continues. Her emergence in the last few years as a persistent critic of the climate science community can be marked by distinct stages. At first, in the immediate aftermath of Climategate, Curry’s critiques focused on “climate tribalism” and “transparency” issues. By April of 2010,…Continue Reading…
So what happens when two insufferably smug climate bloggers butt heads over at Climate Progress? It’s a karmic exchange: Eli Rabett says February 21, 2011 at 3:44 pm: As usual, this misses the real point. The current and long term threat to Egyptian agriculture is sea level rise. Egypt is a combination of Chile and…Continue Reading…
I suppose this story qualifies as news, in the technical sense: A legally binding accord to combat climate change “is not on the cards” at a December summit, because developing countries such as China, Brazil and India won’t commit to it, according to U.S. negotiator Todd Stern. What follows sounds more like fantasy: With developing…Continue Reading…
The huge annual gaggle of scientists starts gathering today in Washington D.C. There are a bunch of climate change-related sessions, some of which I’ll be attending and writing about at collide-a-scape. I’ll also link to ongoing press coverage of certain events and paper presentations.