Thursday Throughput: Leap Year Edition
In a little over a week, we will have an extra day in February. Why do we do this? Because the time it takes Earth to revolve around the Sun is not exactly 365 days.
Tagged: climate change
The Case for Conservative Climate Action
What could possibly be more compelling than “we want to grow all parts of the economy, protect the environment, and improve American quality of life”?
On Greta Thunberg and Public Discourse around ASD
There are many assumptions that are being made about how people with Aspergers may feel or think about these issues, as well as how to interact with people on the Autism spectrum.
About that Clean Water and Air in West Virginia
There is much about environmental sciences/climate change debate that I do not know much about. The water and air in West Virginia? That I know about.
CNN Climate Emergency Town Hall: Never Let A Crisis Go to Waste
In a seven-hour long candidate-by-candidate marathon on CNN, the Democratic candidates for President shared their policy proposals.
Greta Thurnberg’s Semi-slow Boat Upon the Stormy Seas
Which is exactly why, regardless of cause, adults should be slow if not completely adverse to putting children out in front of their political causes.
Jay Inslee For President
Symposium: Vote for the candidate who believes there’s a real existential crisis that has to be addressed.
On Climate Change, DNC Decide There Is Nothing to Debate
The Democratic National Committee declined the calls by some to have a debate solely about climate change.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Wants to be POTUS
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Friday he will be running for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020.
Video: Diane Fienstein vs The Children Edited & Director’s Cut
One day, America will learn to not start social media outrages over short clips of video. Today is not that day, as Senator Diane Feinstein and her team found out.
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...
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...
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...
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...
