Countdown to Copenhagen
My Tuesday post at Nature’s Climate Feedback is up.
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Machiavelli & Climate Change
In the current issue of American Scientist, environmental historian John McNeill mines a famous political treatise to posit why climate change is an intractable socio-political issue: We know orders of magnitude more about the global climate system and climate history than we did in 1950. We do know that there are potential alternative states and…Continue Reading…
Drilling Down on that Pew Poll
Via Matthew Nisbet, I read this NPR transcript from a show discussing the recent Pew poll that had climate advocates wringing their hands in disbelief. The NPR conversation between Pew’s Andrew Kohut and Yale researcher Anthony Lieserowitz is a worthwhile read for anyone who seriously wants to engage with those poll results. The bottom line:…Continue Reading…
Stewart Embraces Superfreaks
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Steven Levitt www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis This Jon Stewart interview with Superfreaks co-author Steven Levitt will surely make Joe Romm et al reach for their Rolaids. Stewart doesn’t merely play it down the middle–he defends Levitt. Roger…Continue Reading…
Eat Your Dog
Guess what? Your dog is part of a carbon emissions, greenhouse gas factory. I can only imagine the horror my crunchy green, dog-loving friends in Boulder, Colorado, will feel when they read this post at High Country News. For the record, no pets in my household, thanks to wicked allergies on both sides of the…Continue Reading…
Countdown to Copenhagen
My Tuesday post at Nature’s Climate Feedback is up.
Pew Poll: A Pause or a Trend?
The NYT has a nice round-up of perspectives on this recent Pew poll, which finds: There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. I tend to think this poll is more a snapshot in time. We’re still…Continue Reading…
Countdown to Copenhagen
My Friday post for Nature’s Climate Feedback is up.
The Climate Game Seer
Is the Copenhagen climate treaty doomed? In the November/December issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Bruce Bueno De Mesquite, a political scientist from New York University uses computer modeling in game theory to predict that, Despite the hoopla, the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen is destined to fail. Here’s what will happen instead: Over the…Continue Reading…
Climate Fixes & Morality
It’s soooo interesting when science and ethics collide. Especially when Nature is involved. Thanks to environmental historians like William Cronon and Stephen Pyne, and ecologists such as Emily Russell, we know that humans have been manipulating nature for a long, long time. It’s not as if we suddenly learned how to live in a fetid…Continue Reading…