In a column published today, a scholar challenges the legitimacy of the climate security frame and suggests it is distracting from the real climate concerns that need to be addressed. But before I get to that, some quick background. In recent months, a flurry of highly publicized papers have explicitly linked climate change to war…Continue Reading…
The headline of this long feature in Rolling Stone suggests an epitaph: Climate Change and the End of Australia I’m generally a fan of Jeff Goodell’s work, but everything I find frustrating about the climate debate is on display in this paragraph: In the past year ““ one of the hottest on record ““ extreme…Continue Reading…
According to the Guardian, a UK report finds that despite householders’ efforts to switch to energy-efficient products, we are actually consuming more energy than five years ago, with almost a third of all the UK’s carbon emissions coming from the home. Hmm, where have I heard about this phenomena before? As highlighted in the Guardian’s subhead,…Continue Reading…
I’m not sure what to make of this story in Foreign Policy. It seems like a textbook case of China’s nationalist capitalism trumping U.S. security interests. On the other hand, the writers of the piece might have a bad case of sour grapes (but they are upfront about their advisory role to a Western oil &…Continue Reading…
This is rich: So after being bombarded with all the news stories about how offensive this term is, and noting that some of the same people doing reporting lambasting Perry over the name of a ranch called “niggerhead” have absolutely no trouble at all calling people like me and the readers of WUWT “deniers” (Think…Continue Reading…
In recent years, some influential writers have been making noises about the staleness of the green movement. At the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, I take stock of an emergent narrative that challenges foundational environmentalist precepts. Will it take hold? Let me know what you think over there.
If Ken Burns lives long enough, he should be able to do a documentary on what life was like before cable TV and the Internet. Meanwhile, here’s what he thinks: Burns says the proliferation of cheap production and distribution technologies for creative expression is a cause for optimisim but worries about audience fragmentation. “When I…Continue Reading…
A typical day in Moranoland includes cynical, misleading headlines such as this: A sad day in journalism: NYT’s Andrew Revkin promotes word ‘denier’ in global warming debate Here is the supposed offending Dot Earth post, which discusses a recently published chart depicting a nexus of organized opposition to climate change. Of course, Morano’s faux indignation…Continue Reading…
It turns out that some leading moderate Republicans are chafing at the “anti-science” label being affixed to their party. The National Journal has the story: Between 2005 and 2010, prominent moderate Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and John Warner of Virginia (now retired) were among Washington’s leading voices in the call…Continue Reading…