They sure chew on more than biscuits at those Tea Parties. Charlie Petit goes into the belly of the beast and files an amusing report that definitely sounds as if Lyndon LaRouche-ies have reanimated into Tea Party-iers. After his Tea Party lead-in, Petit gets to the big story on the Arctic front. Of the news…Continue Reading…
Two years ago, Dan Vergano at USA Today was the first to report on this geography study that predicted Osama Bin Laden was hiding out in a walled compound in a densely populated area. After the discovery and killing of Bin Laden, Vergano followed up with the lead researcher. Here’s a short excerpt of the Q…Continue Reading…
In 1995, Cornell’s David Price published an essay in the journal Population and Environment, in which he wrote that the exhaustion of fossil fuels, which supply three quarters of this energy, is not far off, and no other energy source is abundant and cheap enough to take their place. A collapse of the earth’s human…Continue Reading…
The response by some climate scientists and climate bloggers to a nuanced perspective on the tornado/climate change issue reveals just how zero sum the climate debate remains in some corners. In a follow-up to this superb post, Andy Revkin draws attention to a missing component in recent tornado-related commentary from some prominent voices in the…Continue Reading…
I see Grist has reproduced this post from Brad Johnson, including the headline playing off a Kevin Trenberth quote: Top climate scientist on monster tornadoes: ‘It’d be irresponsible not to mention climate change’ I’ve given this some deep, deep thought. It seems the logic underlying that statement can be applied to most any major event,…Continue Reading…
What world is Chris Mooney living in? In his latest attempt to spin the Matthew Nisbet report into something it’s not, Mooney is pleased to announce that this Miller-McCune “story came out quite well,” which extensively quotes him. Well, I think the story on Nisbet’s report was fair and turned out quite well, too. How about…Continue Reading…
Like many, I’ve been closely following the big story this week. For those interested in how Bin Laden was finally found and about the mission that took him out, read this tick tock in the NYT. For background on the elite commandos and the special operations apparatus they belong to, read this and this. These…Continue Reading…
Last week, this quote from Harvard’s Robert Stavins caught my eye: It’s unlikely that the U.S. is going to take serious action on climate change until there are observable, dramatic events, almost catastrophic in nature, that drive public opinion and drive the political process in that direction. Over the weekend, I asked a number of…Continue Reading…
All the money in the world can’t buy you an ounce of humility or self-deprecation. Via the NYT on last night’s White House Correspondent’s dinner last night, which is an annual roasting of the media, the President, and Beltway mores: As a hair-gelled, grimly unsmiling Mr. Trump sat at a nearby table “” a guest…Continue Reading…
At first I dismissed this crude post from Brad Johnson at Think Progress on Thursday as just another unfortunate example of an overexcited climate blogger looking to score some cheap political points. Then, on the same day, I read this from scientist Peter Gleick at the Huffington Post: Violent tornadoes throughout the southeastern U.S. must…Continue Reading…