Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Burning Down the House
https://www.taprackholsters.com/le-military/ 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…
https://martonepsych.com/general-psychiatry/Global Population Gets a Fresh Look
https://seattleindustry.org/manufacturing-growth/ 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…
Climate Wattage
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…
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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…
Climate Props
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…
The Climate Fade
Order Zopiclone Online 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…
About that Great Disruption
Order Soma 350Mg Online I haven’t read Paul Gilding’s The Great Disruption yet, but I know that the book’s thesis has been accepted by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has written about it repeatedly, including a column earlier this week. In recent years, Friedman has come to view the global economic recession, climate change, and social uprisings…Continue Reading…
Getting Hooked on Sustainability
https://www.foundeng.com/blog/ Steve Jobs got us attached to our gadgets. Some suggest that a similar bond needs to happen with sustainability. I explore this theme over at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media.
Why Climate Uncertainty is Cause for Concern
At Forbes, William Pentland explores the “fat tail” of climate change and concludes: Uncertainty is intrinsic to complex systems like Earth’s climate, but in the context of catastrophic climate change, this uncertainty is so severe that it is difficult to draw basic conclusions about how fat the fat tail is. According to [Harvard University’s Martin]…Continue Reading…