WikiLeaks Gusher
There’s some fuel for peak oilers. An Oil Drum reader wisely reminds that context is necessary.
Author Archive
Headline of the Day
Romania my get even tougher on witches That’s journalistic artistry.
Quote of the Day
Bart Verheggen, a climate scientist and an unfailingly temperate voice in the climate wars (who inexplicably was not invited to the recent Lisbon climate conference), implores: I’m all for bridge building, but let’s at least make sure that reality remains somewhat in view while standing on the bridge.
The Climax
It’s a good day when forest ecology and the prevalence of movie sex scenes can be discussed in the same breath.
Quick & Dirty News
Charlie Petit flags an interesting divergence in coverage of a recent NGO report on mercury pollution. Actually, it’s a case where one environmental reporter seems to have done a little more–um, reporting.
The War Food Memoir
Annia Ciezadlo, a talented writer (and a former editor of mine) has just published her first book, which got a glowing review in yesterday’s NYT: There are many good reasons to read “Day of Honey.” It’s a carefully researched tour through the history of Middle Eastern food. It’s filled with adrenalized scenes from war zones,…Continue Reading…
Global Warming & Kids
On Sunday, a NYT review of Mark Hertsgaard’s new book on global warming began this way: I haven’t had the talk yet with my kids: my 11-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter. I mean the one about global warming, about what’s coming. But then, we grown-ups haven’t had the talk yet among ourselves. Not really. We…Continue Reading…
The Awakening
If you have time for only one long-form journalism story this week, read “The Apostate” by Lawrence Wright in the current issue of the The New Yorker. (The story is not behind a paywall.) Wright’s piece is superb on multiple levels- as a profile of a wayward young man who goes on to become an…Continue Reading…
Supe Bowl Halftime Show Spells Doom
I don’t know which is more brilliant, the headline, Guns N’ Peas Is Where the Trajectory of Man Began It’s Steady Decline or this passage: Let’s face it. We all know that, thanks to pollution and war and overpopulation, we will eventually end up destroying our species. But the video linked here represents the exact…Continue Reading…
Nuttery Transcends Political Affiliation
Budiansky writes a killer blog lede: In the geography of politics, there is a strange and shadowy place far, far down the narrowing alleys of the left, where one turns a final corner and is suddenly face to face with like-minded wanderers who arrived at the same spot from exactly the opposite direction, via equally…Continue Reading…