Elevating the Debate
There’s a mind-bending exchange between climate scientists and policy experts on Dot Earth that many should find fascinating. Or not.
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Tough Choices for Greens
American environmentalists don’t do complexity well. They live in a binary world of good guys and bad guys. Of late, the global warming issue has revealed this most starkly. So it bears watching how this will play out. Keith Johnson’s excellent take over at Environmental Capital covers all the bases.
The Virtues of Parasitism
Attention all fellow bloggy bottom-feeders, Slate’s Jack Shafer has got your back: Borrowing, sponging, lifting, scrounging, leaching, pinching, and outright theft of other publications’ work is firmly in the American journalistic tradition.
Rescuing Archaeologists
How’s this for a bewitching paradox: the global economic meltdown is good for archaeology, bad for archaeologists. Huh? Consider this truism, as stated in a recent article in Antiquity, a UK journal: The principal threat to the archaeological resource is and has been land use change through development, primarily for housing and infrastructure. So it…Continue Reading…
A Hack in Hog (skeptic) Heaven
Just so you know: I’m not the first to take the bait on Marc Morano’s new uber-climate blog-aggregator. But I probably will be the first to say this: what an embarrassment of riches! Yeah, all you righteous climate bloggers can swear on your Hell and High Water manifesto that you haven’t been peeking over there…Continue Reading…
Not in My Vineyard
If you’re an environmentalist, what concerns you more: global warming or the construction of an eco-village in your pretty town? If you’re Robert Redford and you live in Napa Valley, that’s a no-brainer.
Salvaging the Wreckage
This morning, Michael Shellenberger assessed the cratering political landscape for cap-and-trade legislation, and his analysis strikes me as an accurate picture of where things stand now. Among the many he took to task was the President: If there is a strategy coming from the White House, it’s not obvious what it is. Well, a few…Continue Reading…
Garfield's Take on Romm: On the Money
On the Media’s Bob Garfield recently discussed the NY Times magazine’s Freeman Dyson profile with Joe Romm. You can count on Romenesko to capture the best moment in the exchange: ROMM: What The New York Times Magazine has done is elevate Dyson to a very high degree of credibility as a highly credible source on…Continue Reading…
Violence Through a Desert Prism
Here’s the understated yet majestic lede in this poignant essay by Laura Paskus in the current issue of High Country News: On the outskirts of Albuquerque, the desert has surrendered the bones of 12 young women. I’m a little uneasy with the larger theme of the piece, though, mainly because I think violence to women…Continue Reading…
Going Dry
This is a ticking time bomb for Mexico, a greater long-term threat to the country’s sociopolitical stability than the drug cartels.