I see that Michael Tobis held another unusual climate therapy session with the inscrutable Chauncey Gardiner of the climate blogosphere. Michael also posted a few farewell music videos. Given that his blog often had a despairing theme, I thought he forgot to include this one.
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…
Roger Pielke Jr. notes Paul Krugman’s recent learning curve on Egypt. As I pointed out, it helps if you have the right tutor.
There’s some fuel for peak oilers. An Oil Drum reader wisely reminds that context is necessary.
Romania my get even tougher on witches That’s journalistic artistry.
Bart Verheggen, a climate scientist and an unfailingly temperate voice in the climate wars (who inexplicably was not invited to the recent Lisbon climate conference), implores: I’m all for bridge building, but let’s at least make sure that reality remains somewhat in view while standing on the bridge.
It’s a good day when forest ecology and the prevalence of movie sex scenes can be discussed in the same breath.
Charlie Petit flags an interesting divergence in coverage of a recent NGO report on mercury pollution. Actually, it’s a case where one environmental reporter seems to have done a little more–um, reporting.
Annia Ciezadlo, a talented writer (and a former editor of mine) has just published her first book, which got a glowing review in yesterday’s NYT: There are many good reasons to read “Day of Honey.” It’s a carefully researched tour through the history of Middle Eastern food. It’s filled with adrenalized scenes from war zones,…Continue Reading…
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…