Oh, the irony. Yesterday, Rolling Stone magazine posted Al Gore’s 7,000 word essay, which is critical of the media’s (and President Obama’s) handling of climate change. That same day, the highly respected PBS news show hosted a discussion of Gore’s essay. Instead of inviting non-partisan environmental scholars or political scientists to analyze the essay’s premises,…Continue Reading…
Leo Hickman in the Guardian takes stock of some recent encouraging developments and muses: Could peace talks ever end the ‘climate war’? In his article, he wonders, are there any shared goals between the two warring parties in the climate debate worth finding “peace” for? Towards the end, he sums up: When so much of…Continue Reading…
As a kid growing up in the 1970s, I saw my share of movies that scarred my tender psyche. For example, I learned at an early age to avoid garbage trucks with front loaders. That little boy who made very bad things happen scared the bejesus out of me. And then there was Steven Spielberg’s first…Continue Reading…
A lament from Time magazine’s Bryan Walsh: Work in environmental journalism for very long and you can eventually become inured to catastrophe. Every ecosystem is on the brink of collapse; every endangered species is just a few steps from extinction; every government decision to authorize an oil well or a coal mine is the one…Continue Reading…
Richard Harris of NPR has a story that explores why Americans are so ignorant about climate change. Here’s how it begins: The American public is less likely to believe in global warming than it was just five years ago. Yet, paradoxically, scientists are more confident than ever that climate change is real and caused largely by…Continue Reading…
If you missed it, here’s the (full) exchange between Jon Stewart and Chris Wallace on Fox News. It’s a must see.
This is an interesting and peculiar “conversion story” of a climate skeptic who is now persuaded that anthropogenic global warming is real. The piece offers some excellent advice to the left and right sides of the debate, but it also contains standard conservative hyperbole about Al Gore (“He’s clearly looking to ride global warming to…Continue Reading…
Well, let’s just say he’s becoming a franchise. Nederland is one of those bizarro mountain towns in Colorado Mrs. Scape and I enjoyed driving up to when we lived temporarily in Boulder a few years back. But we never made it to the festival, mainly because the kids were younger and we thought the whole…Continue Reading…
You know I do. I’m also a fan of this blog, whose author is a young archaeologist committed to engaging with the public. Check out her latest project: The Maeander River, now known as the Büyük Menderes, flows through southwestern Turkey, connecting the ancient cultures of Anatolia with the Aegean, its twists and turns documented…Continue Reading…