I wonder if Marc Morano sees the irony in his repetitive and highly exaggerated banner headlines, such as the one screaming across the site today: Meltdown of the Climate ‘Consensus’–‘Global Warming Establishment Takes a Body Blow’ The best thing is that this header is literally ripped from the New York Post. Yup, it’s a done…Continue Reading…
**UPDATE: Stuart Pimm, the highly respected conservation biologist at Duke University, emailed me his thoughts on the climate change/global land use dichotomy that is implied by my post. It’s an important perspective. Stuart has given me permission to publish his email in its entirety. You can find it below at this comment.** Perhaps the biggest…Continue Reading…
During George W. Bush’s two terms, environmentalists and archaeologists complained (with justification) that the oil & gas industry was allowed to run roughshod over Western public lands. I wrote a bunch about this for numerous magazines, from Audubon and Mother Jones to High Country News and Archaeology. The same question arose in all these stories:…Continue Reading…
There’s much that intrigues me about this recently published study, but let’s start with the University of Utah press release, titled, “Is Global Warming Unstoppable?” In case that didn’t catch your eye, here’s the dek: “Theory also says energy conservation doesn’t help.” Now let’s go to the first three concise graphs of the release, which,…Continue Reading…
Are they coming? You can find out by listening to this CBC radio show. On the program’s website, Gwynne Dyer discusses how his interest evolved a few years ago from passing curiosity to a serious exploration into this idea that global warming could lead to wars. It turned into a year-long trek talking to scientists,…Continue Reading…
We interrupt the bloggy flame wars to bring you this important discussion on global warming from the Colbert Report. Extra bonus coverage of Al Gore’s most appealing trait. As anyone who remembers his hot tub experience with a Joe Lieberman stand-in on Saturday Night Live, the man can be very funny. The Colbert Report Mon…Continue Reading…
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Steven Levitt www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis This Jon Stewart interview with Superfreaks co-author Steven Levitt will surely make Joe Romm et al reach for their Rolaids. Stewart doesn’t merely play it down the middle–he defends Levitt. Roger…Continue Reading…
Guess what? Your dog is part of a carbon emissions, greenhouse gas factory. I can only imagine the horror my crunchy green, dog-loving friends in Boulder, Colorado, will feel when they read this post at High Country News. For the record, no pets in my household, thanks to wicked allergies on both sides of the…Continue Reading…
The NYT has a nice round-up of perspectives on this recent Pew poll, which finds: There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. I tend to think this poll is more a snapshot in time. We’re still…Continue Reading…