I have no problem with a leading climate scientist taking issue with how the media portrays his profession. And if Gavin Schmidt would have kept his criticism of recent press coverage limited to the UK, he’d be on semi-solid ground. (He’d also be vulnerable to charges of mischaracterizing this coverage as one big “fact-free” monolith.)…Continue Reading…
That’s the headline, and this is the best quote: I grew up in the city; I wasn’t a girl scout; I didn’t camp; I wasn’t a skier; I wasn’t an avid hiker””but the environmentalism I came to know was more about the effects of pollution in society. Meet Lisa Jackson, EPA administrator. She says her…Continue Reading…
Is Joe Romm becoming the Michael Mandelbaum of climate change in Thomas Friedman’s op-ed columns? Romm still has a way to go before he can approach Mandelbaum’s record number of appearances. But today’s column brings the latest evidence that Romm is a fav of Friedman. What’s doubly perplexing about this is that Friedman has never…Continue Reading…
Last year, evidence from a DNA test was thought to have solved one of Utah’s oldest cold cases: the 1934 disappearance of Everett Ruess. National Geographic Adventure published a big, splashy exclusive on the 75-year old mystery. But some observers, most notably Kevin Jones, Utah’s state archaeologist, had reason to question the findings in the…Continue Reading…
I do feel bad for Phil Jones, the scientist caught in the maw of climategate. It’s obviously taken an enormous personal toll on him. But he appears to still be in the same bunker that got him in trouble in the first place. He comes off fairly defensive in this interview with Olive Heffernan in…Continue Reading…
The big story on the climate change front was the snow. Too bad about that. But if you’re still searching for some enlightened perspective to counter the silliness, here’s my favorite three blog posts, in no particular order: Michael Tobis on the importance of El Nino. Ronald Baily on hypocrisy. Roger Pielke Jr., because he’s…Continue Reading…
That headline, from an excellent online story at Foreign Policy’s website, is obviously not one you will see at Climate Depot. And that’s a shame, because the writer, Stephan Faris, makes some very important points, while also not downplaying the recent IPCC mistakes and bad behavior of climate scientists. For example, he writes: The IPCC’s…Continue Reading…
Actually, this editorial appears in the Journal’s Europe edition. I can’t imagine it appearing in the U.S. edition, especially with this kicker: Some dubious emails and slightly dodgy dossiers have cast a new, and unflattering, light on the global-warming debate, raising the risk of a return to the belief that we can go on consuming…Continue Reading…
Actually, it was yesterday, but I’m running behind. And Exum’s internal editor should have left it as this: Why You Should Not Write Newspaper Columns While High on Qat. Here’s hoping the mustache doesn’t return home with a bad case of the jitters.
This online story highlighted at Foreign Policy magazine’s website has a rushed feel to it. It also has a deck that doesn’t deliver: How global warming deniers are running circles around the U.N.’s top climate body I eagerly read the piece to see how that was happening. All I came away with is the reporter’s…Continue Reading…