I’m surprised Tobis didn’t include Fred Pearce in his little Broderite grouping. BTW, I’m just a piker compared to Revkin (and Pearce), both who are far more distinguished than me. Speaking of Pearce, a Bishop Hill reader provides a nice dispatch of a recent Pearce lecture at the Royal Institution. As for the Jay Rosen…Continue Reading…
The war between the global warming pollsters is on. Last week, in a NYT op-ed that was widely discussed in the media, Stanford’s Jon Krosnick asserted that national surveys released during the last eight months have been interpreted as showing that fewer and fewer Americans believe that climate change is real, human-caused and threatening to…Continue Reading…
Maybe I’m whistling Dixie with this modest attempt to bridge the climate divide. Consider what Nicholas Kristof wrote last year, in an op-ed column titled, The Daily Me: there’s pretty good evidence that we generally don’t truly want good information “” but rather information that confirms our prejudices. We may believe intellectually in the clash…Continue Reading…
One of my sources in the National Security Agency tipped me off to a call NSA intercepted earlier today between NYT columnist Thomas Friedman and the well-known climate blogger Joe Romm. Here’s the transcript: Tom: Hello? Joe: Tom, it’s me, Joe Romm. Am I catching you at a bad time? Tom: Oh, hey Joe. No,…Continue Reading…
Climate bloggers belong to one of the more politically relevant subcultures in the blogosphere. It’s hard to quantify to what degree they influence the public discourse on climate science and policy. Suffice to say: they matter. But I would argue that only the two opposite ends of the climate spectrum in the blogosphere are represented…Continue Reading…
As a parent of two small children, one who gives me grief if I forget to turn out a light in our apartment, I can relate to the eco-guilt heaped on this Economist blogger: The kids bug me when I drive to the neighbourhood store rather than walking, because it “poisons the atmosphere”. They bug…Continue Reading…
I tend to think there’s a lot of misunderstanding about the meaning of peak oil, a term that is becoming ubiquitous in public discussions of energy and climate change. So I want to highlight this articulate definition, which is devoid of hyperbole and concludes with a modest nod to peak oil’s relevance: In my opinion,…Continue Reading…
To understand why the new global warming survey by Stanford’s Jon Krosnick is such a mixed bag for climate advocates, just read Kevin Drum’s despairing reaction to it. But I’m getting ahead of myself. As Krosnick lays out convincingly in this meaty NYT op-ed: huge majorities of Americans still believe the earth has been gradually…Continue Reading…
Climate skeptics may be loathe to admit this, but they have a Monckton problem. The guy is just too clownish to be taken seriously, as Lucia recently demonstrated. Yet, there’s no denying he’s the go-to-guy, the U.S. Congressional Republican witness, the conference headliner, the unofficial spokesman who is quoted prominently by the NYT. So this…Continue Reading…
I’m currently moving to a new and better comment system, which means all the site’s comments (from the last year) are now migrating to the new place. But it’s taking a little while. All comments will reappear within the next half hour or so. I hope this makes for more readable threads. **UPDATE** All comments…Continue Reading…