The ironies abound in this otherwise poignant story about one elderly woman’s solitary crusade to raise awareness of global warming. She also learns firsthand the core reason why it’s such a tough sell: Mostly people think it is a problem, but mostly they think it will not impact them anytime soon.
This is a seductive analogy: If astronomers spotted a huge asteroid with a 99.9 probability of hitting the Earth in 100 years, should we ignore it until we’re 100.0% certain of its trajectory? The only problem is that scientists can’t predict what the worst impacts of global warming will be in 2109. I think the…Continue Reading…
Via The Wildlife Society blog, we learn of a new study that shows birds in Australia are shrinking because of warmer temperatures. Of course, there’s always a silver lining: Scientists commenting on the study said this was both good news and bad. It was “alarming”, they said, that global warming may be causing evolutionary change, but…Continue Reading…
While I’m in a NY state of mind, here’s something I’ll have to remember.
So your kids don’t get sprayed with pesticides while waiting for the school bus. I say this jokingly, as someone who doesn’t understand the homeschooling phenomenon. But on a related note, this LAT story has got me thinking to a week from today, when I will be back in Brooklyn and probably at war with…Continue Reading…
It sounds perverse, but there’s no denying it. Yes, some of us may well end up as edible wafers. The Russians, however, are feeling giddy about their future prospects in a hotter world, as Bradford Plumer notes here. So too are nomads in the Sahara, it seems, according to this dispatch from National Geographic News….Continue Reading…
The hyped climate report released today by the Obama Administration is not in itself a “game changer.” As the AP’s Seth Borenstein notes: The White House document “” a climate status report required periodically by Congress “” contains no new research. The real game changer, illustrated by today’s press conference at the White House and…Continue Reading…
What Joe Romm touts as “NOAA-led” the Guardian reports as part of a carefully crafted strategy by the White House. It’s both. No matter, today’s big climate report is sure to light up the blogosphere.
This is rich, coming from the Global Warming capo on the left, he who relishes rhetorical knee-capping: ClimateProgress was the victim of a recent such bullying effort, as detailed in this recent post. The point, of course, is to try to shout down those of us who are warning about the dire nature of the…Continue Reading…
Liberal bloggers need to get a better grip on why the issue of climate change doesn’t resonate more with the American public. Yesterday, Matt Yglesias lamented that the political moment of possibility for climate legislation has coincided with an enormous recession. Yeah, we know that. The fact is, environmental concerns always wane in an economic…Continue Reading…