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Monthly Archives : June 2009
If Lou Dobbs Latched onto Climate Change
Imagine the histrionics when Lou Dobbs figures out the climate change angle to one of his pet causes. In the meantime, with respect to yesterday’s big report, this is a reasonable take on domestic security issues, particularly those related to the border: As much as the United States will have its hands full dealing with…Continue Reading…
No Longer a Foreign Affair
When deforestation is covered in places like this, the environmental debate becomes much richer and expansive:
What Kind of Game Changer?
The hyped climate report released today by the Obama Administration is not in itself a “game changer.” As the AP’s Seth Borenstein notes: The White House document “” a climate status report required periodically by Congress “” contains no new research. The real game changer, illustrated by today’s press conference at the White House and…Continue Reading…
See the Hot House at White House
What Joe Romm touts as “NOAA-led” the Guardian reports as part of a carefully crafted strategy by the White House. It’s both. No matter, today’s big climate report is sure to light up the blogosphere.
The Fouler Cries Foul
This is rich, coming from the Global Warming capo on the left, he who relishes rhetorical knee-capping: ClimateProgress was the victim of a recent such bullying effort, as detailed in this recent post. The point, of course, is to try to shout down those of us who are warning about the dire nature of the…Continue Reading…
Vaccines and Autism: Fear Trumps Science
On Friday I received a remarkable press release entitled, “Vaccines and Mercury Related to Tobacco, Asbestos, and Lead?” Here’s the first graph: We are in an epidemic of chronic diseases — including Autism — that were rare decades ago, but today affect tens of millions of adults and fully one-half of our children. 1 Moreover,…Continue Reading…
"Our Killing Fields"
A few years ago, a ranger at Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument told me that this would be a historic trail in fifty years. In the meantime, the tragedy continues: Already this year, 79 of the dead have been recovered. The season of death, deep summer, has not even begun.
Water Woes in Iraq
This could get ugly. (Hat Tip: John Fleck.)
Grasping the Real Climate Equation
Liberal bloggers need to get a better grip on why the issue of climate change doesn’t resonate more with the American public. Yesterday, Matt Yglesias lamented that the political moment of possibility for climate legislation has coincided with an enormous recession. Yeah, we know that. The fact is, environmental concerns always wane in an economic…Continue Reading…