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…
Over at Climate Central, I ask: Can we have a sustainable conversation on climate change?
UPDATE: I just noticed this talk is a year old. Still, it’s pretty fascinating. Anyone interested in how the journalistic sausage gets made in the UK, about the cozy relationship between British reporters and politicians, about how climate change gets covered in the media, should watch this revealing talk by Sarah Mukherjee, who until recently was…Continue Reading…
On a recent post of mine at Climate Central, one reader left an impassioned comment that sounded as if he considered overpopulation to be the greatest threat to humanity. I’m going to break it up into three parts. Here’s the challenge, as he explained it: An even more overlooked problem is overpopulation (defined as living…Continue Reading…
Michael Levi sounds almost bemused as he’s filleting the authors of this argument for a carbon tax: These are very smart guys. The puzzle for me, then, is why they believe what they’ve written. I can’t help but think that there’s a case of climate change myopia at work. A big slice of the political spectrum…Continue Reading…
This is good that The Breakthrough Institute (TBI) is calling out the Heritage Foundation. Even better would be if TBI’s Post-Partisan Power collaborator, the American Enterprise Institute, pushed back, too. Or is this a fight that Steven Hayward would rather avoid? I guess it depends on how strongly he feels about that part in the Post-Partisan…Continue Reading…