Posts Under ‘climate change’ Category

Locusts & Frogs

Those who are straining mightily to make a causal connection between Egypt’s revolt and climate change will appreciate Steve Colbert’s intro here: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Intro – 1/31/11 www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive And here’s the highlight of the show. Dead on…Continue Reading…

Egypt and Global Warming

I guess it was inevitable that Joe Romm would find a way to link global warming to the popular uprising in Egypt. After taking heat from a few right wing blogs, Romm sketches out his equation: The question is why specifically now have the Egyptians and Tunisians rioted after decades of anti-democratic rule?  Certainly one…Continue Reading…

Hot & Bothered

In this week’s New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg sizes up President Obama’s most talked about

Watts Readers to Climate Reconciliation: Shove It

The majority reaction to the Lisbon rapprochement from Anthony Watts readers is loud and clear. Here’s one representative comment: I am violently opposed to the warmistas, their beliefs and their crusade to tax and control me. Let my language make it plain that I believe that this is a war. No reconcilliation ““ no surrender….Continue Reading…

An 'Unholy Alliance'

But the same formula for this partnership, no?

Bailing on Climate Change

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Kicking the Catastrophe Habit

I’ve just come across a British psychology blog (new to me) that talks about a Berkley climate change-related study that was widely reported and chewed over in the U.S. This latest post has a good summary of the study’s methodology and also provides some larger context: This is the latest in a string of studies…Continue Reading…

Comment of the Day

I generally like to go elsewhere for these nuggets, but this one makes you wonder: If you chart acceptance of the Romm hell and high water scenario against the time he’s blogged, you will see a steady downturn beginning right about when he started. Romm isn’t swimming against the stream. He’s pushing the stream in…Continue Reading…

Riddle Me This

A very interesting correlation between global warming and evolution–and not the one that may spring immediately to your mind.

When Up is Down in Romm World

Huh? Is Joe Romm trying hard to convince himself that he’s not swimming against the current? If truth serum existed, and you gave it to Romm just before he sat down to write this post, you can be sure it would have turned out differently. Even one of Romm’s fiercest loyalists concedes the obvious (at…Continue Reading…