Scientific American — Red State America Acts on Climate Change But Calls It Other Names
How to deal with climate change, without saying “climate change.”
Were All Our Climate Change Hopes Lost in Trump’s Election?
Within days of the Paris Agreement being signed, a climate change denier was elected. What now?
In Search of Anthropocene Ethics
The world faces unprecedented ecological challenges, and humanity remains largely lethargic to respond. It’s time to adopt a new sense of ethics that acknowledge our collective effect on our pale blue dot, and which account for the quality of the land our progeny will inherit.
Questions From the Headlines
When headline writers use questions, Burt Likko answers them. Briefly, completely, and unabashedly expressing his own opinion. Ten questions about politics, the business of news, news of business, and grizzly bears.
Getting a Temperature Reading on Climate Change Politics
Gawker’s Adam Weinstein and the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Lawrence Torcello have each come out for the criminalization of climate-change denial. I’m curious to know what readers here think of this.
Climate Change is Not Going Away
Bill McKibben has a piece up at TomDispatch. He makes some good points, despite a clear disrespect for Mike Godwin.
The Arctic is Utterly and Unavoidably Doomed — and Conservatives Were Right All Along
~by Robert Greer Before I attempt to argue these apparently-contradictory things, let me point to an astonishing fact few people seem to be aware of: In June 2012, there was less than half as much sea ice (by volume) in the Arctic Circle as a mere ten years prior, and the downward trend has been…
Radical steps needed to combat climate change
This is a ‘promoted comment‘ from the post “Climate Change is Real and it’s Heating Up‘. It has been edited for clarity, with sources added. ~by mclaren Excellent post by Kain, as usual. The incrementalist suggestions that lead toward a solution all seem solid and reasonable. Problem is, climate science currently shows that AGW is proceeding much…
Heating Up
“Neither Governor Perry nor the bulk of Texas’ citizens may be interested in climate change, but climate change is interested in them.” ~ Matt Yglesias, commenting on the massive drought and terrible wildfires ravaging Texas. There has been a long drought all across the Southwest for many years now. Wildfires are only getting worse. The…
Climate Change is Real, and it’s Heating Up
Despite what many GOP contenders for the 2012 presidential nomination say, the Earth really is heating up, and the costs of global warming may be drastically higher than previous estimates suggested. Meanwhile, investigators in the so-called ‘Climategate’ scandal have now once again cleared climate scientist Michael Mann of all charges of misconduct. It turns out…
The Next Culture War
After evolution, classroom fights over climate science and The Big Bang Theory are the next front in the education cultural war.
Fixing the IPCC
In the wake of Climategate, Clive Crook has some choice words for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chance.
Blame Canada
Okay people. It’s time for all of you to pile on Scott and Chris. Turns out they’re the bad guys in the whole climate change kerfuffle:
What Do you Do After the (Climatic) Impossible Fails?
Here’s an interesting back and forth from the combox to ED’s post on climate change. (Found in comment thread #1). Kyle writes: I think – to some degree – you’re conflating two theories that don’t have the relationship you’re purporting them to have. Theory 1 – climate change, Theory 2 – markets and fuel. You’re…
Fools and scoundrels
“If anyone tries to tell you that uncertainty about climate change is a reason for inaction, he’s either a fool or a scoundrel. Probably a bit of both.” ~ Mark Kleiman Kleiman makes a number of assumptions in his piece before reaching this one. He assumes some hypothetical climate change statistics and then assumes that…
Climate Change and the Plague
An interesting nugget from The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire [page 91]: Climatology is now infected by partisan polemics, but ice core studies that show rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere over the last ten thousand years are undisputed.
The 12 days of global warming
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climate change is off the charts
Remember that big chart Al Gore used in his documentary? If not, here it is: This chart shows the correlation of high global temperatures and high CO2 levels (though some have argued that if you look closely, you’ll see that temperature actually rises before CO2 levels rise, but we’ll leave that for another day.) More…
The public’s opinion of the accuracy of climate change science is, frankly, irrelevant
Look, I think cap-and-trade is bad policy on the merits. But global warming is a) a real problem and b) deserves a serious response. I am also baffled by the idea that a survey of non-experts (namely, the American public) should determine whether we take climate change seriously.
Some Things Money Can’t Buy, For Everything Else There’s Waxman-Markey
[updates below] Rortybomb points us to this post by Matt Steinglass countering Jim Manzi’s opposition to Waxman-Markey. Steinglass writes: There will be no snow left on Kilimanjaro within a few years. The economic cost of that change to US GDP is zero. There will be no year-round snow left in the Himalayas in 100 years.…
Waxman-Markey Day
Well, the wheelers and dealers on Capital Hill are voting on Waxman-Markey today. Jim Manzi has been doing damn fine work on the subject lately, so browse his archives over at The American Scene if you’re interested at all on what looks to be a very, very bad bill for climate change. I’m skeptical of…
climate partisanship
George Will isn’t the only conservative partisan using global warming as a wedge issue. Both sides of the debate, to some degree, have used climate change theory to their political advantage. Al Gore has made a fortune and a great deal more fame off the subject–plenty of cash to pay for his carbon-emitting 10,000 square…
