Some of you may experience that after reading this article, or maybe you’ll reach for some of those tattered Carlos Castaneda paperbacks and get reacquainted with Don Juan, that wily, shape-shifting trickster. Or maybe not, if you’re already aware that Castaneda was a dark trickster of another sort. So in light of this history, I…Continue Reading…
A reader of James Fallows has a suggestion to better focus the national discussion of the moment that is equally relevant to the climate change debate: I would love to see a list of common sense rules (similar to Michael Pollan’s food rules) that serve as good reminders of civil discourse. What would you like…Continue Reading…
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus of the Breakthrough Institute advance their argument for a “third pathway” in the energy/climate debate. The two dominant sides, they assert, have constructed increasingly baroque fantasies of the other. To partisan greens, skeptics are fossil fuel-funded and brainwashed planet killers too stingy to spend a postage stamp a day to…Continue Reading…
Bart Verheggen points out one sentence in an interview that has won plaudits from all corners, including climate skeptics: “There’s no place for plastic in our marine environment.” To which Bart says: Imagine a similarly worded and honest, clear, informative interview about AGW. And the scientist interviewed says right in the beginning: “There’s no place…Continue Reading…
Goes to Randy Olson at The Benshi, for his great interview with a microbiologist who has recently debunked the Texas-sized “garbage patch” myth: Are you now or have you even been a card-carrying member of the American Plastics Council?
Bryan Walsh at Time beat me to the punch. I’ll get back to that in a sec. Originally my post was going to lead off with a comment from Orville Schell in the early 2000s, when he was dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, in Berkley and the downsizing…Continue Reading…
I have a bunch of swirling emotions and conflicting thoughts. But before I get to them, I want to first mention that Tucson, to me, is the beacon of Arizona. As a magazine journalist and editor, I’ve kept a close eye on southern Arizona since 1998, periodically visiting and writing about numerous environmental issues, such…Continue Reading…
Those of you who perhaps followed this weekend thread at Real Climate know that I had planned to carry out a little experiment this week. I had intended on proving that there is no dearth of climate change coverage in the media and what’s more, that it wasn’t nearly as trite or bad as many…Continue Reading…
I for one, would like to live in a society where people can have differing opinions without becoming “Koch funded anti-science denialists” or “Soros funded socialist hoaxers”. It’s something to strive for shoot for, no? UPDATE: See comments for explanation of cross out.
It turns out that readers at popular climate blogs on opposite ends of the spectrum have similar complaints about the media. From a commenter at WUWT: The LA Times has been a socialist rag, suitable mostly for lining the bottom of a parrot’s cage, for decades. When their marketers used to call to ask me…Continue Reading…