Apsmith over at Daily Kos has tried to unravel how Michael Tobis got himself top billing on a recent Glenn Beck show. Because I pop up (somewhat mysteriously–“who is Keith Kloor?”) as one of the culpable parties, I feel it’s important to correct some of his misleading inferences. I wanted to leave a comment on…Continue Reading…
This absurd post by Joseph Romm, in which he accuses The New York Times of “media malpractice” due to supposed errant climate change coverage in several recent stories, reveals a doctrinaire mindset on the relationship between global warming and natural disasters that is becoming all too common in environmentalists. Romm is ticked off because, among…Continue Reading…
The evidence for civilization-killing droughts keeps piling up. Well…sort of. All the worldwide headlines on this latest story about Angkor, the ancient Cambodian city, mention drought. And for good reason. As the AP reports, new tree ring evidence by scientists show that Southeast Asia was hit by a severe and prolonged drought from 1415 until…Continue Reading…
No one knows more about the history and ecology of fire than Stephen Pyne. “Australia,” he writes today, “is a fire continent: it is built to burn. To this general combustibility its southeast corner adds a pattern of seasonal winds, associated with cold fronts, that draft scorching, unstable air from the interior across whatever flame…Continue Reading…
This story in the L.A. Times really bugs me. In an interview, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu predicts, or at least was paraphrased as predicting, that California’s farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance…Continue Reading…
Last Friday, Californians woke up to this cheery news on their climate front: “State officials reported a Sierra Nevada snowpack smaller than normal on Thursday and said California may be at the beginning of its worst drought in modern history. Residents were immediately urged to conserve water.” Okay, I realize this sounds bad enough, but…Continue Reading…