As the Guardian wrote in the waning days of George W. Bush’s presidency, greens viewed his policies as a concerted assault, from the administration’s undermining of the science on climate change to its dismantling of environmental safeguards to its support for mining and oil interests. Can you guess the one area where his actions stand in…Continue Reading…
But not a surprise. He’s a huckster through and through.
Despite his site’s antiquated layout, Matt Drudge has “stable traffic of about 12 million to 14 million unique visitors every month no matter what kind of news is breaking,” writes David Carr in today’s NYT. How does he do it? Carr marvels: With no video, no search optimization, no slide shows, and a design that is…Continue Reading…
The events in Louisiana have prompted The New Yorker to display this classic (freely accessible) from John McPhee on its home page.
I am no fan of the mega-monster retailer, but this is a story hard to ignore.
Nice package of pieces over at Foreign Policy, all part of a special report called, “The State of Big Oil.” Worth checking out.
Anthony Watts bites down hard on sour grapes after reading the big news yesterday in USA Today. More on that in a minute. So Dan Vergano breaks the story and offers this helpful background: The study, which appeared in 2008 in the journal Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, was headed by statistician Edward Wegman of George Mason University…Continue Reading…
Last month, I wrote this post, laying out the global warming = Arctic geopolitical hot spot narrative. So it’s not exactly news to me that the latest batch of cables released by Wikileaks show, as the BBC reported, that nations are racing to “carve up” Arctic resources – oil, gas and even rubies – as…Continue Reading…
What are the chances that someone could make a compelling movie about 30,000-year old rock art? Incredibly, Werner Herzog pulls it off with Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which I saw this weekend on the big screen. The archaeologists in the movie are terrific, and Herzog does a nice job answering all the basic questions a general…Continue Reading…
Here’s news and (a headline) that is sure to rankle many in the climate and environmental communities: Obama seeks to promote more oil drilling in Alaska, offshore But it shouldn’t come as a surprise, since this is what he said during his recent “energy security” speech in March: Meeting this new goal of cutting our oil…Continue Reading…