Many climate skeptics perturbed about the BEST results are complaining that the media has gleefully hyped the story. There is certainly evidence of widespread coverage in newspapers and the blogosphere. But the story has been virtually ignored by cable TV and mainstream broadcast outlets. Last night, Jon Stewart had some fun comparing that dearth with…Continue Reading…
The Planet 3.0 post I was praising the other day has generated an interesting thread, especially this exchange, which starts with a great question from one commenter: Can I ask, particularly of those who are professionally immersed in this, does the difficulty in talking about extreme events stem from a genuine lack of knowledge and…Continue Reading…
I’m just catching up with this story from the Salt Lake Tribune: During [Utah] Gov. Gary Herbert’s visit to Blanding, one of the poorest regions of the state, residents pleaded with him to keep open the Edge of the Cedars Museum State Park. The ancestral Puebloan site and official archaeological repository houses one of the largest…Continue Reading…
I’m very much intrigued by a paper published this week (by Simon Donner) in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. It touches on themes that are of longstanding interest to me. I have a short riff on Simon’s paper at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media.
While driving in New Jersey yesterday, I was listening to a BBC program on the radio and had to pull over when Khaled Mattawa, a Libyan poet and English professor at the University of Michigan, was reading this poem.
This is interesting. But the response to it in some quarters should be more interesting.
Michael Tobis impresses with this nuanced explication of a sticky issue. He asks: The question is how we should be thinking about extreme events. Notably, extreme weather events, and extreme environmental events of sorts that are connected to weather and climate, such as wildfires and infestations. There is a tendency for those of us who…Continue Reading…
When I saw this recent RFKJr Huffington Post column, titled “The Fracking Industry’s War On The New York Times–And The Truth,” I tweeted: RFKJr has waged war on truth w/his anti-vax nuttery and cape wind nimbyism. If you’re unfamiliar with this history, read here and here. On Cape wind, RFKJr is simply hypocritical. But his anti-vax…Continue Reading…
Bill’s been very sick. Lissa called in September to say we wanted to come see him, but he put us off. He didn’t want us to see him that way, to remember him that way. But then he changed his mind, called Lissa in what was either a moment of great weakness or great strength,…Continue Reading…
Like most people with an internet connection, I’m plugged in to social media. But I’ve been a half-hearted participant. I find FB to be too narcissistic, so I’ve largely come to ignore it. I love twitter, but haven’t embraced it fully until a few days ago. And that’s only been because I feared getting sucked…Continue Reading…