If you read this article by Carl Zimmer in Yale 360, you might notice that there’s a few looming battles over ecological thresholds. Climate scientists and climate advocates will be wrangling over acceptable planetary carbon dioxide limits, and conservation biologists and ecosystem ecologists will be arguing over acceptable species extinction levels. That’s the problem when…Continue Reading…
If there’s a major flood in the headlines, you can bet Joe Romm is on the scene, milking the drama and tragedy for all it’s worth. Does it matter that he’s not even consistent? Here’s how he first classifies the Georgia flooding: I have called this type of rapid deluge, “global warming type” record rainfull.”…Continue Reading…
Joe Romm, the self-appointed climate journalism watchdog, goes bananas over this story by Andy Revkin. After a meanering 2,400 word critique, Romm hands down his judgment in bold: Revkin should retract this entire piece. At least he didn’t demand that Revkin apologize to humanity. That’s (climate) progress of a sort. But seriously, if anyone wants…Continue Reading…
John Fleck clinically demolishes Michael Tobis’s straw man critique of climate change-related journalism. Tobis is often a thoughtful blogger but he also suffers from the same journalism-is-failing-us syndrome that afflicts Joe Romm and many other climate advocates.
Linguistically speaking, that is.
He exploits everything–even a noble man’s death— to score cheap points for his side. Was it really necessary to play up Borlaug’s vague statements on climate change in this article, Marc? Look, I’m already on record about the value of Morano’s site. I also get a ton of traffic every time he links to me;…Continue Reading…
How is this possible: One year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the surprise is not how much has changed in the financial industry, but how little. So now that the planetary panic has subsided, is it too late for institutional change? This is the passage from Alex Berenson’s saturday’s NYT article that caught my…Continue Reading…
I had no idea that NYC was taking such a pro-active approach to climate adaptation. When I read stories like this, which also discusses how other major cities in the world are making similar plans for a hotter, more turbulent climate, I can’t help but wonder if climate change debate has broken off into two…Continue Reading…
Can anyone dispute that climate change trumps all other ecological concerns in the public discourse? In so far as any environmental issue commands the world’s sustained attention, many would argue that this is a good thing. Climate scientists and climate advocates obviously take this view. But that does not seem to be the position of…Continue Reading…
That’s how Oxford economist Dieter Helm describes global efforts to stem greenhouse gas emissions, in a brutally candid interview with Nature. Warning! The contents of his interview are for mature audiences only. For example, wind power advocates might want to close their eyes during this part: What exactly will windmills across Europe do to address…Continue Reading…