Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

When Arrogance Meets Arrogance

https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/therapists/ So what happens when two insufferably smug climate bloggers butt heads over at Climate Progress? It’s a karmic exchange: Eli Rabett says February 21, 2011 at 3:44 pm: As usual, this misses the real point. The current and long term threat to Egyptian agriculture is sea level rise. Egypt is a combination of Chile and…Continue Reading…

A Climate Stalemate

Buy Ambien Online Without Prescription I suppose this story qualifies as news, in the technical sense: A legally binding accord to combat climate change “is not on the cards” at a December summit, because developing countries such as China, Brazil and India won’t commit to it, according to U.S. negotiator Todd Stern. What follows sounds more like fantasy: With developing…Continue Reading…

Sciencepalooza

The huge annual gaggle of scientists starts gathering today in Washington D.C. There are a bunch of climate change-related sessions, some of which I’ll be attending and writing about at collide-a-scape. I’ll also link to ongoing press coverage of certain events and paper presentations.

Carbon Nation

It’ll be interesting to see if this new solutions-oriented documentary finds an audience. The trailer is definitely pretty cool. (I’ll go see any movie that includes a former CIA director and a one-armed Texas hillbilly.) A guy who looks like Mr. Clean in a business suit utters my favorite soundbite: This is no longer the…Continue Reading…

Say Man

Buy Valium Online Without Prescription Anybody who remembers their wise-ass high school days will recall playing the dozens–a verbal contest of put-downs between two people (usually guys) that degenerates into an x-rated volley of insults about family members. It’s not for the meek. I’ve noticed that the raunchy tradition is alive and well on some climate blogs and presumably carried…Continue Reading…

Climate Espionage

https://rgprincipal.com/home/ This story in the Guardian, which reports that UK energy companies have been carrying out covert intelligence-gathering operations on environmental activists is sure to make U.S. climate activists paranoid. Of course, corporate espionage, be it employed against competitors or perceived opponents, is nothing new. If I was the head of  a major climate advocacy group,…Continue Reading…

A Voice in the Wilderness

https://dinoeliadis.com/press-releases/ A Republican over at Frum’s site has some advice for the GOP that will undoubtedly be ignored: if Republicans in Congress want to build on their 2010 gains, going on the warpath against environmental protections might be a flawed strategy. Recent polling and focus group work indicates that roughly three-fourths of Americans ““ including 61…Continue Reading…

The Upside to Global Warming

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…

Is the Southwest on Borrowed Time?

Living in a marginal (but stunning) landscape with obvious constraints has its drawbacks when too many people move there and the natural resources become depleted. In the American Southwest, those drawbacks are not really being felt by the hordes who live there now. Yet. But based on my own knowledge of the drought history of…Continue Reading…

The Gang That Can't Talk Intelligibly

Buy Ativan Online Without Prescription A few days ago, House Republicans held their first hearing on climate science. Actually, as John Broder reported in the NYT, the ostensible purpose of the hearing was to review the economic impact of pending limits on carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases. But much of the discussion focused instead on whether climate science supports…Continue Reading…