This NYT story of green nimbyism in some of the most liberal locales doesn’t surprise me. Self interest often transcends noble principles. But the issue of bike lanes, which is one of the examples in the piece, is a complicated one for me. Let me first say that I’m a fan of bike lanes and…Continue Reading…
The normally level-headed Kevin Drum, who says “we now officially live in the era of guerrilla activism,” spots a trend. It started in the fall of 2009 with the infamous ACORN sting. Conservative activist James O’Keefe secretly recorded ACORN employees providing advice to a faux pimp who wanted to bring underage prostitutes into the country…Continue Reading…
Goes to Grist for this bit of scareploitation: Today’s tsunami: This is what climate change looks like UPDATE: Tom Yulsman calls the Grist article “yellow journalism.” Kenneth Green at AEI calls it “shameless.” Many commenters at Grist–not trolls, but seemingly regular Grist readers–also find the piece offensive. UPDATE 2: In response (in the comment thread…Continue Reading…
Wishful thinking by Bishop Hill, or poor grasp of how things work in the U.S.?
John Broder, in his next day story, tries to [you choose] 1) atone, 2) appease, 3) fill in the blank. “We’ll never know what this president could have achieved,” said Joseph J. Romm, a former Department of Energy official who is one of the country’s most influential writers on climate change, “because he didn’t try.”
Climate blogger Joe Romm has published one of his worst misleading opening sentences: The New York Times has published one of its worst climate science pieces. Yes, I’m being playful, but also dead serious. Romm’s latest post knocking The New York Times coverage of global warming is about this John Broder article–which itself was about a…Continue Reading…
A plea: If those who worry about what would happen if we burned all the fossil fuels and those who worry that we will blow ourselves up deciding a “˜fair and equitable’ distribution of those resources could just sit down and agree that burning fossil fuels is a problem, then maybe, just maybe a solution…Continue Reading…
Over at Ecological Sociology, a supposition is put forth that the politicization of environmental matters has taken a new twist. Call it “everything good is bad for you reporting.” This is reporting that takes conventional wisdom about environmental matters — energy efficiency is good, recycling is good — and turns it on its head by…Continue Reading…
If David Mamet were to pay attention to the climate blogosphere, he might conclude that certain parts of it were stagecraft. And he might write a devilish story along the lines of this masterpiece. Just to be clear: I’m referring not to climate science, but the machinations of assorted players (major and minor) across the spectrum.