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.
Tagged: climate change
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
