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The Margin of Victory for Climate Legislation
So it’s been interesting to read Matthew Nisbet’s Powershift report alongside the Spring issue of Sociological Quarterly, which contains a series of themed essays in a special section called, “Symposium on the Politics of Climate Change.” I’ll be discussing one of the pieces at length in a post that will go up tomorrow at the…Continue Reading…
King Julien of the Climate Blogosphere
It must infuriate Joe Romm when people don’t take his word as gospel. Here’s how he opens his latest effort to slime a respected scholar and shape the climate narrative to his liking. We’re starting to see pieces of counterfactual history on the climate bill in The New Republic and elsewhere based in part on discredited scholarship….Continue Reading…
Of Celebrity Greens and Climate Conversions
Over at Climate Central, I lament the shallowness of popular environmentalism (as it exists today), and wonder if their are lessons to be drawn from a recent climate skeptic’s conversion.
Simplifying the Climate Debate
Can we all agree on this statement from Penn State geologist Richard Alley? I think it’s important to say that the interaction between radiation and gases in the air is not red or blue. It’s not Republican or Democrat, or libertarian or anything else. It’s physics. That’s from an interview that Alley does with the…Continue Reading…
Nature Weighs in on Nisbet Report
An editorial in Nature says that Matthew Nisbet’s Climate shift report “dismantles three of the most common reasons given by those who have tried, and failed, to garner widespread support for policies to restrict greenhouse gases.” I guess they didn’t get the memo from the climate capo or the reprint over at the watchdog site. The Nature…Continue Reading…
A Cupful of Controversy
Has mountain climber and best-selling Greg Mortenson of “Three Cups of Tea” fame been exposed as a fraud by CBS’s 60 Minutes? Or is the segment that ran this past Sunday “seriously deficient” and “lacking in basic elements of fairness, balance, perspective, insight and context,” as former Newsweek correspondent Daniel Glick
Joe Romm Breaks Media Embargo, Kneecaps Nisbet
Say one thing about Joe Romm, he understands the value of getting ahead of a story to try and influence the media narrative. He’s kinda like Mike Tyson in his prime, who would launch from his corner stool like a ball of fury as soon as the opening bell was rung and pummel his opponent…Continue Reading…
Satan is a Climate Skeptic
Well, I have no idea if that’s true. But Anthony Watts needs to stop crying crocodile tears about being called a “denier” if he’s going to put up posts like this one. Here’s the headline: Charles Manson becomes an advocate for global warming You climate skeptics get the point? What about you, Anthony?
Shale Gas & Energy Security
Over at Climate Central, I ask if the controversial Cornell study will undermine a tenuous alliance built on disparate interests.