Rumble Time
Now that this day is here, I can imagine the current EPA Administrator gleefully thinking, in the deepest recesses of her subconscious, “You wanna piece of this…” Somewhere, Christie Todd Whitman is having a bad flashback.
Monthly Archives : April 2009
Delusionary in Kos-land
Kos is kidding himself: In the unlikely and tragic event that every single newspaper went out of business today, we’d have little problem replacing them as a source of information. Sure you would. Here’s the problem with his metric: Just because a link from his survey didn’t lead to a documented primary or secondary newspaper…Continue Reading…
Shamanism's Big Tent
It’s all here, including the latest on ingestibles, from creamy chocolates to trippy toxics.
Scammed on Spam
Is that newsy study on spam’s massive carbon footprint much ado about nothing?
Elevating the Debate
There’s a mind-bending exchange between climate scientists and policy experts on Dot Earth that many should find fascinating. Or not.
Tough Choices for Greens
American environmentalists don’t do complexity well. They live in a binary world of good guys and bad guys. Of late, the global warming issue has revealed this most starkly. So it bears watching how this will play out. Keith Johnson’s excellent take over at Environmental Capital covers all the bases.
The Virtues of Parasitism
Attention all fellow bloggy bottom-feeders, Slate’s Jack Shafer has got your back: Borrowing, sponging, lifting, scrounging, leaching, pinching, and outright theft of other publications’ work is firmly in the American journalistic tradition.
Rescuing Archaeologists
How’s this for a bewitching paradox: the global economic meltdown is good for archaeology, bad for archaeologists. Huh? Consider this truism, as stated in a recent article in Antiquity, a UK journal: The principal threat to the archaeological resource is and has been land use change through development, primarily for housing and infrastructure. So it…Continue Reading…
A Hack in Hog (skeptic) Heaven
Just so you know: I’m not the first to take the bait on Marc Morano’s new uber-climate blog-aggregator. But I probably will be the first to say this: what an embarrassment of riches! Yeah, all you righteous climate bloggers can swear on your Hell and High Water manifesto that you haven’t been peeking over there…Continue Reading…
Not in My Vineyard
If you’re an environmentalist, what concerns you more: global warming or the construction of an eco-village in your pretty town? If you’re Robert Redford and you live in Napa Valley, that’s a no-brainer.