Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

Pandemic World

Mexico may still be in lockdown mode, but I suspect American fears of swine flu are ebbing. Alas, we may have only a short reprieve before pandemics starting hitting with regularity, warns epidemiologist Larry Brilliant in the WSJ weekend edition: In our lifetimes, or our children’s lifetimes, we will face a broad array of dangerous…Continue Reading…

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Both Sides Do It

Buy Zanaflex Online Without Prescription So is this what it comes down to in environmental debates, who is more successful at manipulating the public? As the N.Y. Times reports, EcoAmerica has been conducting research for the last several years to find new ways to frame environmental issues and so build public support for climate change legislation and other initiatives. Among…Continue Reading…

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Only a Matter of Time?

Buy Tramadol 100 Mg Online The N.Y. Times carried this front-page headline (and sub-hed) today: Containing Flu Is Not Feasible, Specialists Say They Urge a Strategy of Mitigating Effects How long before we see an identical hed and sub-hed, with just one word change: Containing Flu Climate Change is Not Feasible, Specialists say I’m not suggesting, just wondering…

Dumb and Dumber at Rommland

Order Ambien Online So the Indispensable One is telling his choir to ignore a prestigious, internationally respected journal that has just devoted much of its current issue to climate change, which contains articles by these guys. Predictably, Rommians are grateful for the Indispensable One’s directive: Great post. Saved me a couple hours. You are the best. Hey, you…Continue Reading…

Clinton's Formula for Curbing Climate Change

Zolpidem 5Mg Order Online Lost amid swine flu frenzy is the import of yesterday’s speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on climate change and foreign policy. But the ever reliable Keith Johnson at Environmental Capital caught it: What was really interesting was Ms. Clinton’s argument about the economics of tackling climate change. Basically, she said that curbing greenhouse-gas…Continue Reading…

Surveying the Green Mind

Still can’t fathom why global warming isn’t more of a bugaboo to the average American (unlike, say, a case of pandemic hysteria)? Read Nate Silver’s take on this survey conducted by the Yale Project on Climate Change and George Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication. The survey contains various permutations of questions and lots of…Continue Reading…

That's Why They Call It

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Greening U.S.-China Relations

This op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor suggests that “environmental engagement” could serve as sort of a back-door channel for easing U.S.-China tensions: Environmental collaboration is unlikely to hit politically sensitive buttons, and thus offers great potential to deepen dialogue and cooperation. Military-to-military dialogue can facilitate the sharing of best practices on a range of…Continue Reading…

The Killer MacGuffin

https://rgprincipal.com/chile/ Several days ago, this story at Slate, by Brendan Borrell, argued that habitat destruction posed a more immediate threat to wildlife and biodiversity than climate change. That makes obvious sense. Until recently, ecological degradation, be it from deforestation or overfishing, was the pre-eminent environmental concern of our time. “Now, writes Borrell, “being green is all…Continue Reading…

A Hack in Hog (skeptic) Heaven

http://masterfacilitator.com/salesfacilitation/ Just so you know: I’m not the first to take the bait on Marc Morano’s new uber-climate blog-aggregator. But I probably will be the first to say this: what an embarrassment of riches! Yeah, all you righteous climate bloggers can swear on your Hell and High Water manifesto that you haven’t been peeking over there…Continue Reading…