When he was two or three, my oldest son asked, “who’s that,” when we walked past this shrine in our neighborhood. Not sure what to say, my wife blurted out, “that’s Jesus in a box.” And so for a while, every time we walked by it, my son would point and say, “There’s Jesus in…Continue Reading…
I have to keep reminding myself that Joe Romm comes from a journalism family. Because it escapes me how he could take issue with this rapturous story getting front page treatment in yesterday’s NYT. Abby Haddad Carson and Robert Carson say Saturday is Judgment Day; the children, Joseph, Faith and Grace, right, do not. The…Continue Reading…
In the Guardian, Jules Boykoff takes stock of the seriousness with which national security experts inside and outside the U.S. military view climate change, a subject I’ve often take up here and elsewhere. As Boykoff drily notes: This isn’t a tree-hugging festival. It’s the US military and its partners making clear-eyed calculations based on the best…Continue Reading…
Taking note of this news out of Denmark, Time’s Ecocentric blog wondered, Is the scramble over the North Pole back on? As I discussed here, the scramble has been on for a few years already. I call it the global warming = Arctic geopolitical hot spot narrative. Over at the Natural Security blog, the wonks have…Continue Reading…
A long, long time ago, when I led a carefree life, I dated a woman who was the single mother of a two-year old girl. I was crazy about both of them (just not crazy enough to stick around). The woman worked an arduous job as an ICU (intensive care unit) nurse. She also had…Continue Reading…
Boy, was Schwarzenegger aces on climate change! Jeff Goodell at Rolling Stone rues a lost opportunity: Until the story about his out-of-wedlock child broke yesterday, Schwarzenegger seemed preparing himself for a new, high-profile role in the energy and climate fight, perhaps as the head of a think tank or advocacy group. Now, who knows? The…Continue Reading…
A former Republican governor from a conservative state who is now considering a run for President is….get ready for it..vouching for climate science and not denying the existence of global warming. Shocking! Unbelievable! He also must not be seriously thinking he can win the GOP nomination. Here’s the excerpt of Jon Huntsman’s interview with Time…Continue Reading…
One of these days, I’m going to figure out a way to talk about “global change,” not just climate change. You know, because it’s such a catchy term that rolls off the tongue. Sarcasm aside, to lots of smart people, “global change” is where the serious action is at. Right now. As Jonathan Foley wrote…Continue Reading…
Well, that was interesting. Here are some nuggets from the discussion. On the inconsistent standards of climate skeptics: The symmetry of this issue is intriguing to me. With regard to Mann we’re told all that matters is that there’s a flaw. It doesn’t matter whether correcting it changes the conclusion, it doesn’t matter whether the same conclusion was reached by…Continue Reading…
This is the opening to a terrific story by Rex Dalton in Miller-McCune: It seemed like such an elegant answer to an age-old mystery: the disappearance of what are arguably North America’s first people. A speeding comet nearly 13,000 years ago was the culprit, the theory goes, spraying ice and rocks across the continent, killing…Continue Reading…