Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus of the Breakthrough Institute advance their argument for a “third pathway” in the energy/climate debate. The two dominant sides, they assert, have constructed increasingly baroque fantasies of the other. To partisan greens, skeptics are fossil fuel-funded and brainwashed planet killers too stingy to spend a postage stamp a day to…Continue Reading…
Bart Verheggen points out one sentence in an interview that has won plaudits from all corners, including climate skeptics: “There’s no place for plastic in our marine environment.” To which Bart says: Imagine a similarly worded and honest, clear, informative interview about AGW. And the scientist interviewed says right in the beginning: “There’s no place…Continue Reading…
Those of you who perhaps followed this weekend thread at Real Climate know that I had planned to carry out a little experiment this week. I had intended on proving that there is no dearth of climate change coverage in the media and what’s more, that it wasn’t nearly as trite or bad as many…Continue Reading…
I for one, would like to live in a society where people can have differing opinions without becoming “Koch funded anti-science denialists” or “Soros funded socialist hoaxers”. It’s something to strive for shoot for, no? UPDATE: See comments for explanation of cross out.
It turns out that readers at popular climate blogs on opposite ends of the spectrum have similar complaints about the media. From a commenter at WUWT: The LA Times has been a socialist rag, suitable mostly for lining the bottom of a parrot’s cage, for decades. When their marketers used to call to ask me…Continue Reading…
Media bashing is a popular sport of both the Left and Right. It always has been, but in the blog/twitter/200 cable channels age, journalism has become a proxy battleground for everyone with an ax to grind, as this 2008 NYT story explains: The blur of new media creates fresh opportunities for attack, counterattack, counter-counterattacks, odd…Continue Reading…
They don’t have much sway in the party of Limbaugh, but there is such a thing as gay Republicans, and a species known as Republicans for Environmental Protection. Cognitive dissonance aside, they’ve even been around for a while. But did you know there was also a rare breed of conservative climate scientists? There’s even a…Continue Reading…
Captain climate doom (also known as Mr. Hell & High Water) is sure to snarl at the headline of this new Nature article and its lead sentence: The use of dire predictions to encourage action on climate change may be backfiring and increasing doubt that greenhouse gases from human activities are causing global warming. Question:…Continue Reading…
This is a fun little riff from Steven Hayward, one of the authors of the Post-partisan paper. I’m not sure who he means by the “climate establishment,” but this is a wickedly legitimate observation of the hardcore climate doom crowd: The climate campaign establishment increasingly looks like its own self-contained and self-referential lunatic asylum, unable…Continue Reading…
I’m going to nitpick this lament by James Fallows: One of the basic functions of journalism is to say: This is true, and that is false. There are other functions, but establishing bedrock “world is round / sun rises in the east / 1+ 1 = 2” verities is a big one. In today’s political…Continue Reading…