George Monbiot is on quite a tear. His latest riposte begins: Over the last fortnight I’ve made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged, and wildly wrong….Continue Reading…
That’s what I’m wondering, anyway, over at Frontier Earth.
As I mentioned last week, I’ll be flagging my Frontier Earth posts in this space with a link. My latest, asking if security concerns can be an enduring focal point for climate and energy debates, is up. If you have any thoughts to share, please do so over there.
Well, there’s been an interesting response to the launch of my new blog at Climate Central. I kinda expected a few people in the climate blogosphere would grit their teeth. But I didn’t expect my new gig to prompt an immediate what-do-we-do-about it strategy session. Michael Tobis offers a vague description: Conversation about Keith came…Continue Reading…
Well, George, I did warn you. Here is Monbiot, sounding gobsmacked by the outcry to his recent pro-nuclear power column: The accusations have been so lurid that I had to read my article again to reassure myself that I hadn’t written the things that so many of my correspondents say I wrote. Not everyone is foaming…Continue Reading…
And this is for real. So I’m opening up a new shop in the blogosphere. (To add to this one.) I’m teaming up with the Climate Central outfit, which is nonpartisan and staffed by people I have tremendous respect for, such as science journalists Michael Lemonick and Andrew Freedman. (My friend Tom Yulsman also writes…Continue Reading…
Bryan Walsh at Time has put up a good
The mind reels: In what might be one of the most remarkable about-faces ever to come from within the beltway, James Inhofe, Senator and minority ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee (R. OKLA), apologized to a stunned Senate chamber for calling climate change the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”…Continue Reading…
Steve LeVine at Foreign Policy has a fascinating post that is best described by his tweet: Could we be headed back to $55-a-barrel #oil? If you believe that#stimulus money saved the economy, the answer is yes.
Leo Hickman at the Guardian unearths a time capsule. He asks of his readers: But does anyone remember this advert from 1993, let alone a resulting controversy? And if shown again today on primetime television, would it go uncontested? In an update at the end of his post, Hickman reports that only two complaints were…Continue Reading…