For a would-be pothunter, I supppose arrowheads are like a gateway drug. Of course, not everybody becomes a junkie. And most people who become addicted to uncovering a piece of the past don’t become pothunters. That said, see if you can match the quote to the right author below. Don’t click on a link until…Continue Reading…
When George Will writes one of his ridiculous columns on global warming, greens and liberal science bloggers practically fall over themselves in condemnation. But when a popular comedian advises against getting the swine flu vaccine–or any vaccine, for that matter–the silence is deafening. Holy junk science, where is the outrage against Bill Maher? This is…Continue Reading…
Lots of people snickered, many others clapped. Daniel Drezner got a good laugh: Honestly, I’m not laughing at Obama. I’m laughing at the morons on the Norwegian Nobel Committee who made this decision to cheapen an already devalued prize. I wonder if my friends in the academic community would agree with him on this point,…Continue Reading…
Even the liberal Huffington Post can’t see it: The time has not yet arrived and circumstances have not yet evolved where Barack Obama is anywhere near the point where he has earned this prize. I don’t blame him for this capricious action; it was the Nobel Peace Committee which committed the offense, which no doubt…Continue Reading…
The indispensable Jeffrey Gettleman has a heart-wrenching dispatch on Dot Earth: We walked through a camp for displaced people, absorbing the human wreckage all around us. There were stick-skinny children with horrible, rattling coughs that sounded like an old Chevy Nova trying to start up on a cold morning. Emaciated goats snacked on piles of…Continue Reading…
Jackson Lears has a must-read essay in the current issue of TNR that leads off: In contemporary public discourse, concern for “the environment” is a mile wide and an inch deep. Even free-market fundamentalists strain to display their ecological credentials, while corporations that sell fossil fuels genuflect at the altar of sustainability. Everyone has discovered…Continue Reading…
If we really want to lick this global warming problem, then we need to be scared straight, says an Australian ethics professor: There is a view we should not scare people because it makes them go down their burrows and close the door but I think the situation is so serious that although people are…Continue Reading…
Ecology was once considered the “subversive science.” To a large degree, environmentalism’s legitimacy derives from its long-time alliance with ecology. If environmentalists were going to a big dance, they always chose ecology as their hot date. That was before climate change became the new girl on the block. Before climate change won an Oscar, became…Continue Reading…
So let’s say you’re in jail for a crime you never committed. After six years of incarceration, a judge hears your case and decides you’re innocent. But the prison warden objects. He says maybe you were innocent once, but after rubbing elbows 24/7 with hardened criminals behind bars, maybe it’s best you stay put. As…Continue Reading…
Let me say outright that I’m a big a fan of national parks. Many of my vacations have been spent camping and hiking in these crown jewels, from the mountains of Virginia’s Shenandoah to the mesa’s of Utah’s Canyonlands. On Thursday, two environmental groups issued a report that concluded: climate disruption is the greatest threat…Continue Reading…