Chris Mooney finds much to admire with this list of Steve Jobs revelations, leaked from Walter Isaacson’s forthcoming biography: He gave up Christianity at age 13 when he saw starving children on the cover of Life magazine. (AP) * He was returning from an apple farm on one of his fruitarian diets when he chose the name…Continue Reading…
As I’ve previously discussed, the most disconcerting turn in the population debate in recent times (at least in the U.S.) is the anti-immigrant factions that have co-opted it. But the approaching 7 billion mark has generated a new round of population chatter and news stories. At the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media,…Continue Reading…
This story can BEST be told in a series of headlines, tweets, and quotes. Andy Revkin kicks it off: Skeptic Talking Point Melts Away as an Inconvenient Physicist Confirms Warming Pshaw, says Anthony Watts: The Berkeley Earth Station Surface Temperature project puts PR before peer review Leo Hickman: What a surprise: Anthony Watts is crying foul over…Continue Reading…
A scholar surveys “the sorry history of international climate policy” and wonders when enough will be enough: The road from Rio to Kyoto to Bali to Copenhagen to Cancun is littered with procrastination, obfuscation, and empty promises. For example, all major countries including the United States agreed to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…Continue Reading…
The best that can be said about this is that at least Romm had the decency to include the photo credit this time. Obviously, my comment and post struck a nerve. Why Romm doubles down and insists on associating global warming with the Somalia famine is beyond me. It’s like focusing on harsh winter weather for the freezing…Continue Reading…
Other than Stewart Brand, the U.S. doesn’t have any well-known environmentalist writers who dare to challenge conventional green wisdom. I suppose The Death of Environmentalism authors could qualify, but I consider them more wonky polemicists than writers. Andy Revkin might soon qualify, as he transitions from mainstream science reporter to environmental writer/teacher. In the UK,…Continue Reading…
This stare down between a mountain lion and a house cat happened last week, in the foothills of Boulder, Colorado. Here’s what they said: Cat: Tough luck about that glass door, eh? Mountain lion: Guess you won’t be coming out for fresh air anymore, eh? Cat: I’m cool. I don’t mind mind watching Wild Kingdom…Continue Reading…
If a picture, as the adage goes, says a thousand words, then I take umbrage to a picture of an emaciated Somali child being used as a prop in this post. For the meaning of it does not support the text. I went over to Climate Progress and left this comment: The picture accompanying this…Continue Reading…
This story in yesterday’s NYT, titled “What happened to global warming?” has stirred some discussion over why a sizable bloc of Americans aren’t taking climate change seriously. Brad Plumer in the Washington Post says it’s a “great piece,” while Joe Romm grits his teeth at what he considers a big omission. I offer my take…Continue Reading…
As one reporter noted about Rush Limbaugh: His controversial quips come faster than a locomotive and he leaps over spineless Republicans in a single sound bite. Here’s one for the annals.