Luck of the Irish
Some good news for Guinness (and black & tan) fans who want to drink away their climate woes in a European “lifeboat.”
Posts Under ‘global warming’ Category
Global Warming Flashback
Leo Hickman at the Guardian unearths a time capsule. He asks of his readers: But does anyone remember this advert from 1993, let alone a resulting controversy? And if shown again today on primetime television, would it go uncontested? In an update at the end of his post, Hickman reports that only two complaints were…Continue Reading…
Gallup Poll: Climate Change is Least of Concerns
There’s a new Gallup survey on environmental issues that will trigger a round of cheers and jeers in the climate blogosphere, depending on where you align. The main finding: With Earth Day about a month away, Americans tell Gallup they worry the most about several water-related risks and issues among nine major environmental issues. They…Continue Reading…
Doomsday Chronicles, cont'd
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…
The Grand Challenge
It’s amazing to me that someone can lay out the complexity of the climate problem so well and then follow that with a simplistic, facile call to action. Here’s the set-up by David Roberts at Grist in a post that otherwise compares the differing vantage points of climate scientists and economists: Humanity has never had…Continue Reading…
Global Warming & Kids
On Sunday, a NYT review of Mark Hertsgaard’s new book on global warming began this way: I haven’t had the talk yet with my kids: my 11-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter. I mean the one about global warming, about what’s coming. But then, we grown-ups haven’t had the talk yet among ourselves. Not really. We…Continue Reading…
The KrugRomm Hybrid
Did Joe Romm ghostwrite Paul Krugman’s column in today’s NYT? Let’s look at the uncanny similarities between Krugman’s op-ed and an argument advanced by Romm in several of his recent posts. For example, Krugman writes today (my emphasis): After all, the big question about uprisings against corrupt and oppressive regimes in the Middle East isn’t…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…
Green Skeletons
Politico digs them out of the GOP closet.
Those Were the Days
One of my favorite geographers, David Lowenthal, has written two great books that touch on the power of nostalgia: The Past is a foreign Country, and Possessed by the Past. In environmentalism, the notion of an idealized past has long manifested itself in various ways. For example an early strain of contemporary environmentalism–known as the…Continue Reading…