Eduardo Zorita packs a lot into this post. I’m not sure it coheres but it’s quite interesting. He touches on the importance of expert authorities and the IPCC and muses on “the interaction between technology and democracy”: We have now several new technologies that have been developed in the last few decades, which the individuals…Continue Reading…
My issues with Joe Romm aside, he has written a post today that is spot-on. (My rule is to play the argument, not the man.) Riffing off this superb Ezra Klein piece, Romm writes: In the climate bill debate of the past two years, Obama and the Democrats embraced Republican ideas in an effort to…Continue Reading…
I’m having a flashback. It’s been triggered by all these bobble heads at the NYT discussing the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Amazingly, not one of these very smart bobble heads is an actual conservation biologist, who would, if he or she was given truth serum, have said that our most noble, high-minded environmental law is…Continue Reading…
A leading scientist whose work intersects with climate science charts a pragmatic path forward. Here’s an excerpt from my Q & A with Jonathan Foley: I’m not interested in getting in the middle of the long-running war between climate skeptics and climate activists. I’m tired of the whole thing, and am looking for some pragmatic…Continue Reading…
Distracted (excited?) by melodramatics, Lucia and Anthony Watts miss the most interesting part of this tantrum by Michael Tobis, when he says to Steve Mosher: I believe you that you are not on Koch’s team. I think you are on [Julian] Assange’s team, Team Loose Cannon. I’m interested in this because so many discussions involving Assange…Continue Reading…
There’s loads of great stuff to explore today over at Climate Central, such as this piece by Michael Lemonick, and this Q & A with Matthew Nisbet. (Speaking of Nisbet, he’s got a new post up that raises some interesting ethical questions.) Check back later today at the Frontier Earth site to see a new…Continue Reading…
What is it good for?
So it’s been interesting to read Matthew Nisbet’s Powershift report alongside the Spring issue of Sociological Quarterly, which contains a series of themed essays in a special section called, “Symposium on the Politics of Climate Change.” I’ll be discussing one of the pieces at length in a post that will go up tomorrow at the…Continue Reading…
It must infuriate Joe Romm when people don’t take his word as gospel. Here’s how he opens his latest effort to slime a respected scholar and shape the climate narrative to his liking. We’re starting to see pieces of counterfactual history on the climate bill in The New Republic and elsewhere based in part on discredited scholarship….Continue Reading…
Over at Climate Central, I lament the shallowness of popular environmentalism (as it exists today), and wonder if their are lessons to be drawn from a recent climate skeptic’s conversion.