Building on recent concerns, the U.S. Navy is mulling climate change a lot lately. (H/T, The New Security Beat.) Memo to Romm and other catastrophe-mongers: instead of conflating every major flood or wildfire with global warming, which is not credibly supported by science, why not talk more about the increasing apprehension within the U.S. military…Continue Reading…
Andy Revkin loves to stir the pot. Recriminations from predictable quarters are bound to pour in soon.
Andrew Sullivan is convinced that global warming is real, but he also belongs to the reality-based community, so he poses this dilemma: Should we bear the heavy economic and social costs of trying to mitigate it in the teeth of a global depression? Or should we find creative ways to adjust to and live with…Continue Reading…
You don’t need a weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing in the Senate on cap-and-trade legislation. Yesterday, after several revealing votes showed just how tough it will be to pass a meaningful climate change bill in Congress, Olympia Snowe, the Republican moderate from Maine, said this to Politico: It’s a complicated issue…Continue Reading…
Uh oh, looks like Joe Romm has coughed up another media hairball. This time, it’s the New Yorker that has gone off message in Rommian land. So let’s say there are legitimate points of contention with this editorial by David Owen. All you Rommians surely must see how the “indispensable” one completely undermines himself when…Continue Reading…
I love to hash over climate policy and politics as much as the next peon blogger. And I love biting the ankles of melodramatic bloviators. But I also love reporting, which often means reading documents and talking with people on the phone. So this week I’ve tried to tamp down my enthusiasm for bloggy smackdowns…Continue Reading…