Posted by Greg Laden on January 1, 2009
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My New Year’s resolution is to quit procrastinating.
I should probably qualify that, but mebbe later.
My New year resolution,
to get a life….
May the force be with you,always
Last night, in the Minneapolis suburb of New Hope, two police officers were shot by a long-gun wielding man, who was immediately killed by other police officers. Here’s the story as we know it: Two New Hope police recruits were at the City Council meeting being sworn in. They left the City Council room, and […]
Keystone XL is effectively obsolete. James Lenfesty, a retired editorial writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, has an Op Ed in that paper suggesting that by the time Keystone XL pipeline is built it would be obsolete. He acknowledges that by out dated reckoning the pipeline might have been a good idea, but not by […]
Years ago before there was a lot of paleo climate data, there were some rather simplistic graphs of ancient climate used to make basic points like “around this time it was warmer than around this other time when it was cooler. Maybe. One of those graphs depicts the now debunked “Medieval Warm Period.” (We now […]
Lord Matthew White Ridley will be familiar to most of you as the person who wrote a really good book on evolutionary biology, but later became a “lukewarmist,” a variety of climate change denier who claims global warming is real but not important. To him, this may apply. He is armored in protective privilege as […]
Sea level rise is a serious issue, and the sea is rising because of global warming. How bad can it get? The USGS has estimated the potential contribution of melting ALL of the glacial ice around the world to sea level rise. This is very rough, because many different factors affect sea level, including ocean […]
January 1, 2009
January 1, 2009
