There’s an interesting food fight taking place at ScienceBlogs. Orac is dismayed that Coby Beck allowed his father to “hijack” his blog with this “case against flouride” post. Orac is all over the irony of this. I have to agree. It’s akin to Coby handing over his blog to an anti-vaxxer.
The Economist explains why adaptation has long been marginalized in the climate debate: The green pressure groups and politicians who have driven the debate on climate change have often been loath to see attention paid to adaptation, on the ground that the more people thought about it, the less motivated they would be to push…Continue Reading…
Christina Larsen at Foreign Policy has a nifty silver lining take on the U.N. climate talks now underway in Cancun, Mexico. It boils down to the “absence of delusions” this time around, or more charitably, no expectations of any breakthrough agreement, much less any significant progress. More interestingly, Larsen considers when, if ever, any similar…Continue Reading…
Much of the discussion on the “low-hanging fruit” post revolved around a hypothetical question: would tackling secondary climate forcings (such as soot and methane) pave the way for stronger climate policies down the road, or further defray action on carbon dioxide, which happens to be the more pressing long-term threat? At this juncture, political and…Continue Reading…