Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

The Scrambled Politics of Nuclear Power

Zolpidem 5Mg Order Online We are living in strange times. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a conservative politician and until a few months ago, a longtime supporter of nuclear power, has vowed to shutter her nation’s 17 nuclear reactors and make renewable power, such as wind and solar, Germany’s dominant source of energy by 2030. Meanwhile, staunch British environmentalist George Monbiot, the…Continue Reading…

Why Colombia is Staggering From All That Rain

https://rgprincipal.com/chile/ The lessons to be learned after reading this story by John Otis in Time magazine couldn’t be clearer. Here’s the set-up, describing the situation in Colombia: Amid 11 months of nearly nonstop rain, dykes have burst and rivers have topped their banks, inundating communities, cattle ranches, and croplands in 28 of Colombia’s 32 departments. Waterlogged…Continue Reading…

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The Bike Messenger

This is a cool story: David Goodrich doesn’t just think there is a global issue with climate change, he says he knows it. And he’s so sure of the problem that he is willing to bike across country educating students about it. Goodrich, 58, of Rockville recently retired as director of the Climate Observation Division with…Continue Reading…

Waterboarding and Climate Change

Order Pregabalin Online Those two terms don’t have much in common unless you’re a 2012 Republican Presidential candidate running away from your prior positions on torture and the environment. I’m referring to former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, or T-Paw as he’s known in his home state. Via Andrew Sullivan (who is all over Dick Cheney for claiming torture…Continue Reading…

Jeremy Grantham's Elevator Speech

Imagine you crossed Jared Diamond and Lester Brown with a former Royal Dutch Shell economist turned-brilliant hedge fund manager. That’s the author of this stunning quarterly newsletter for GMO Capital, an investment firm that manages over $100 billion in assets. Over at Climate Central, I barely scratch the surface of Jeremy Grantham’s essay, which begins with…Continue Reading…

The Tea Party and Global Warming

They sure chew on more than biscuits at those Tea Parties. Charlie Petit goes into the belly of the beast and files an amusing report that definitely sounds as if Lyndon LaRouche-ies have reanimated into Tea Party-iers. After his Tea Party lead-in, Petit gets to the big story on the Arctic front. Of the news…Continue Reading…

Greens Offer No Viable, Compelling Vision

Buy Clonazepam Online Overnight In 1995, Cornell’s David Price published an essay in the journal Population and Environment, in which he wrote that the exhaustion of fossil fuels, which supply three quarters of this energy, is not far off, and no other energy source is abundant and cheap enough to take their place. A collapse of the earth’s human…Continue Reading…

On Revkin, Romm and the Zero Sum Climate Debate

The response by some climate scientists and climate bloggers to a nuanced perspective on the tornado/climate change issue reveals just how zero sum the climate debate remains in some corners. In a follow-up to this superb post, Andy Revkin draws attention to a missing component in recent tornado-related commentary from some prominent voices in the…Continue Reading…

Climate Change Mad Libs

I see Grist has reproduced this post from Brad Johnson, including the headline playing off a Kevin Trenberth quote: Top climate scientist on monster tornadoes: ‘It’d be irresponsible not to mention climate change’ I’ve given this some deep, deep thought. It seems the logic underlying that statement can be applied to most any major event,…Continue Reading…

Chris Mooney Spins Himself Dizzy Over Nisbet

http://masterfacilitator.com/managementequations/ What world is Chris Mooney living in? In his latest attempt to spin the Matthew Nisbet report into something it’s not, Mooney is pleased to announce that this Miller-McCune “story came out quite well,” which extensively quotes him. Well, I think the story on Nisbet’s report was fair and turned out quite well, too. How about…Continue Reading…