As reported last month in Nature, Scientists have come up with new evidence in support of the controversial idea that humanity’s influence on climate began not during the industrial revolution, but thousands of years ago. Now, in a guest post at Real Climate, William Ruddiman summarizes the new evidence that will appear in an upcoming…Continue Reading…
I don’t know about you, but I’m still getting whiplash from the write-ups of the splashy Cornell University study that concluded shale gas is probably every bit as potent a greenhouse gas as coal and oil. (I first wrote about the study here.) Let’s retrace the course of the media coverage this past week. Hang…Continue Reading…
In recent years, the Arctic has become a place where global warming and geopolitics intersect. Over at Frontier Earth, I check the status of this hot spot.
I’m poaching this comment from yesterday’s Dot Earth post on Randy Olson. What’s striking to me is that it comes from a graduate student enrolled in a sustainability program at a top university: I love the ‘woe is me’ and ‘shame on you’ summation. It perfectly characterizes the scope of most environmental communication. The hysterical…Continue Reading…
I never got around to writing about this recent essay from recovering scientist-turned filmmaker Randy Olson, so I’m glad that Andy Revkin has taken it up at Dot Earth. Do watch the 10-minute Skype video interview that Revkin also posts, where Olson says: The problem in the environmental and science worlds as far as I can…Continue Reading…
Some musing over at Frontier Earth on the impermanence of life in an energy colony, and the tradeoffs the people who live in them are willing to make.
The Guardian is hosting the Helen & George show this week. It’s reminiscent of this classic episode from the Seinfeld annals. On a related note: in the department of nuclear mea culpas, here’s Mark Lynas in The Economist: I entirely understand the arguments espoused by anti-nuclear campaigners, especially because I used to make them myself…Continue Reading…
Berkeley physicist Richard Muller is turning out to be one of the most interesting and controversial new players in the climate arena. It’s still early in the year, but it’s looking like he’ll be the Judith Curry of 2011. Fresh off his recent congressional testimony (which turned out to be a deep disappointment to Marc…Continue Reading…
And it’s prompting so much rapid head swiveling you’re liable to get whiplash.
That was the tagline to this popular 1990s sci-fi TV show. And so that is my advice to birthers, anti-vaxxers, 9/11 Truthers, Watts/Morano dwellers, Anna Haynes soul travelers, New Agers, UFO abductees, Holocaust deniers, flat-earthers, New World Order fretters, and Scientologists ( I gotta cap the list somewhere). The truth is out there. Keep looking….Continue Reading…