A former Republican governor from a conservative state who is now considering a run for President is….get ready for it..vouching for climate science and not denying the existence of global warming. Shocking! Unbelievable! He also must not be seriously thinking he can win the GOP nomination. Here’s the excerpt of Jon Huntsman’s interview with Time…Continue Reading…
One of these days, I’m going to figure out a way to talk about “global change,” not just climate change. You know, because it’s such a catchy term that rolls off the tongue. Sarcasm aside, to lots of smart people, “global change” is where the serious action is at. Right now. As Jonathan Foley wrote…Continue Reading…
Well, that was interesting. Here are some nuggets from the discussion. On the inconsistent standards of climate skeptics: The symmetry of this issue is intriguing to me. With regard to Mann we’re told all that matters is that there’s a flaw. It doesn’t matter whether correcting it changes the conclusion, it doesn’t matter whether the same conclusion was reached by…Continue Reading…
This is the opening to a terrific story by Rex Dalton in Miller-McCune: It seemed like such an elegant answer to an age-old mystery: the disappearance of what are arguably North America’s first people. A speeding comet nearly 13,000 years ago was the culprit, the theory goes, spraying ice and rocks across the continent, killing…Continue Reading…
As the Guardian wrote in the waning days of George W. Bush’s presidency, greens viewed his policies as a concerted assault, from the administration’s undermining of the science on climate change to its dismantling of environmental safeguards to its support for mining and oil interests. Can you guess the one area where his actions stand in…Continue Reading…
But not a surprise. He’s a huckster through and through.
Despite his site’s antiquated layout, Matt Drudge has “stable traffic of about 12 million to 14 million unique visitors every month no matter what kind of news is breaking,” writes David Carr in today’s NYT. How does he do it? Carr marvels: With no video, no search optimization, no slide shows, and a design that is…Continue Reading…
The events in Louisiana have prompted The New Yorker to display this classic (freely accessible) from John McPhee on its home page.
I am no fan of the mega-monster retailer, but this is a story hard to ignore.
Nice package of pieces over at Foreign Policy, all part of a special report called, “The State of Big Oil.” Worth checking out.