Romm Doubles Down on Egypt/Climate Link
I have a few questions for Joe Romm. 1) When you discuss the 2007-2008
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Tunisia and Egypt: Some Common Denominators
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…
Egypt and Global Warming
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…
Hot & Bothered
In this week’s New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg sizes up President Obama’s most talked about
Watts Readers to Climate Reconciliation: Shove It
The majority reaction to the Lisbon rapprochement from Anthony Watts readers is loud and clear. Here’s one representative comment: I am violently opposed to the warmistas, their beliefs and their crusade to tax and control me. Let my language make it plain that I believe that this is a war. No reconcilliation ““ no surrender….Continue Reading…
An 'Unholy Alliance'
But the same formula for this partnership, no?
Kicking the Catastrophe Habit
I’ve just come across a British psychology blog (new to me) that talks about a Berkley climate change-related study that was widely reported and chewed over in the U.S. This latest post has a good summary of the study’s methodology and also provides some larger context: This is the latest in a string of studies…Continue Reading…
Comment of the Day
I generally like to go elsewhere for these nuggets, but this one makes you wonder: If you chart acceptance of the Romm hell and high water scenario against the time he’s blogged, you will see a steady downturn beginning right about when he started. Romm isn’t swimming against the stream. He’s pushing the stream in…Continue Reading…
Riddle Me This
A very interesting correlation between global warming and evolution–and not the one that may spring immediately to your mind.