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…
There’s a new Gallup survey on environmental issues that will trigger a round of cheers and jeers in the climate blogosphere, depending on where you align. The main finding: With Earth Day about a month away, Americans tell Gallup they worry the most about several water-related risks and issues among nine major environmental issues. They…Continue Reading…
Mike Tidwell, a journalist turned activist, has published a how-to-ride-out-the-climate apocalypse instructional in The Washington Post. Years ago, global warming had already put Tidwell on high alert. But events in the last year have elevated his personal threat level: Now I’m changing my life again. Today, underneath the solar panels, there’s a new set of…Continue Reading…
A climate blogger goes down the yellow brick road: The Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak, has resigned, finally relenting to weeks of massive protests. Is he the latest casualty of climate change? I think I see an upside that everyone else is missing. If more oppressed populaces, inspired by the Egyptians (who were inspired by the…Continue Reading…
It’s amazing to me that someone can lay out the complexity of the climate problem so well and then follow that with a simplistic, facile call to action. Here’s the set-up by David Roberts at Grist in a post that otherwise compares the differing vantage points of climate scientists and economists: Humanity has never had…Continue Reading…
On Sunday, a NYT review of Mark Hertsgaard’s new book on global warming began this way: I haven’t had the talk yet with my kids: my 11-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter. I mean the one about global warming, about what’s coming. But then, we grown-ups haven’t had the talk yet among ourselves. Not really. We…Continue Reading…
I’m a little late to this parody. And, besides, I didn’t have a blog at the time. Those unfamiliar with Sarah Silverman but interested in learning more about her edgy brand of comedy should check out this 2005 New Yorker profile. H/T: KJ
As I offhandedly mentioned yesterday, my biggest problem with the claim that global warming is a contributing factor to Egypt’s uprising isn’t that it’s parasitically opportunistic. It’s that it undermines serious, legitimate debate on the linkages between climate change, demographics, environmental degradation, poverty, and sociopolitical factors, such as built-up frustration over government repression. And that…Continue Reading…
I guess it was inevitable that Joe Romm would find a way to link global warming to the popular uprising in Egypt. After taking heat from a few right wing blogs, Romm sketches out his equation: The question is why specifically now have the Egyptians and Tunisians rioted after decades of anti-democratic rule? Certainly one…Continue Reading…
Politico digs them out of the GOP closet.