Let me say outright that I’m a big a fan of national parks. Many of my vacations have been spent camping and hiking in these crown jewels, from the mountains of Virginia’s Shenandoah to the mesa’s of Utah’s Canyonlands. On Thursday, two environmental groups issued a report that concluded: climate disruption is the greatest threat…Continue Reading…
Jonathan Chait at TNR smartly dissects the two main arguments against action on climate change. Be sure to read it all the way through for a bonus take-down of the skeptics’ most prominent spear carrier. And then read this equally smart rejoinder (comment #2) to Chait, which basically asks why he’s wasting his time fighting…Continue Reading…
Buy Ativan Online Without PrescriptionFollowing the logic of that Grist article I cited in my last post, this commentary on the congressional climate bill strikes me as pretty “radical,” coming from a well-respected, mainstream greenie like Bill McKibben: If you pass half a health care bill, you can always come back in a decade. People will suffer in the…Continue Reading…
https://dinoeliadis.com/schedule-time/ Interesting headline by Grist. Once upon a time, radical greens might have been called monkey-wrenchers, bombers, arsonists, whale defenders, even tree-sitters. Today, if you belong to a green group that is agitating against the congressional climate bill, because you think it’s not strong enough to curb global warming, you might as well be a traitor…Continue Reading…
https://theroyalstagproperties.com/our-team/ Our fearless climate hero is doing double duty as a reporter now. Determined to ice discussion of possible short-term temperature stabilization trends, Scoop Romm touts an “exclusive interview” he scored with Mojib Latif, a Germany-based climate scientist whose work and quotes have become blogosphere fodder for the contrarian crowd, in part because of these two…Continue Reading…
https://disneycruisinggroup.com/thinkingdisneycruise/ It’s called the Center on Climate Change and National Security. This strikes me as huge news, not so much because it further institutionalizes and legitimizes climate change as a national security issue, but because the center’s mission will necessarily overlap with a broader suite of environmental issues, as indicated by the CIA’s own press release:…Continue Reading…
https://www.secpeinvestments.com/home/ In the activist category, Time Magazine names Joe Romm as one of this year’s “green” heroes. Romm would prefer to think of himself as a journalist, but he’s not complaining. In fact, he’s “surprised” by the “generous profile” that Bryan Walsh wrote, since Romm slammed him several months ago. It’s as if Romm were surprised…Continue Reading…
https://blackhillsballoons.com/experience/ From 3 Quarksdaily, an intriguing post flows from this question: Will historians and archaeologists a few thousand years from now believe that scientists in the mid-twentieth century split the atom? That they even created a nuclear bomb? There’s a good chance the answer will be “no.” The author, Sam Kean, argues that our collective behavior…Continue Reading…
The flip side of climate change coverage is energy. CJR offers a prescription for how to revitalize the beat. Broadly speaking, the authors argue: if energy news is to engage and inform the decisions of politicians, industry executives, and the public, the media must think more strategically about what they cover, how they cover it,…Continue Reading…