Chris Mooney is a freelance writer and the author of two books, The Republican War on Science and Storm World.
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August 31, 2006
Category: Hurricanes
For the first time (at least that I've noticed), the Joint Typhoon Warning Center makes it explicit--Supertyphoon Ioke may ultimately hit Japan. Granted, it will have weakened by then--but still. Here's how they put it:...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 2:08 PM • 11 Comments
Category: Politics and Science
...for causing so very many people so very much depression and angst. Reading this reaction to my book recently on a blog, I thought to myself, wow, it sounds like countless other reactions I've gotten from folks: Reading these two...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:04 PM • 5 Comments
Category: Hurricanes
This storm has less than 24 hours over water before getting acquainted with the Carolinas. But Ernesto is already stronger than it has been in quite a while: 55 mph winds, 996 mb of pressure. It's forecast to strengthen...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 8:45 AM • 1 Comments
Category: Global Warming
I first heard of the Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam several years ago when he wrote a wrongheaded attack on the then-new phenomenon known as "blogging." Bloggers quickly eviscerated him; among other things, Beam had failed to comprehend one of...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 6:55 AM • 3 Comments
August 30, 2006
Category: Hurricanes
If Supertyphoon Ioke keeps its present course, Wake Island will look very different after the 50 foot waves (and higher) have passed.... P.S.: Larger image available here. See also NASA's terrifying size comparison between the gigantic Supertyphoon and the...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 8:34 PM • 8 Comments
Category: Updates
A lot of folks have asked me to come speak in this area for quite a long time. And now, it's finally happened. We've just added these bookstore events:...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:47 PM • 9 Comments
Category: Hurricanes
When Hurricane Ioke went out of the range of the Central Pacific Hurricane Center and crossed the International Dateline, the last update said this: IOKE COULD ENTER THE RECORD BOOKS FOR LONGEVITY AS A CATEGORY 4 OR GREATER STORM....
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:45 AM • 5 Comments
Category: Updates
I've just put up a link on the left to the GoogleVideo version of my UCSD-TV interview with Naomi Oreskes, which I think is one of my best interviews. You can watch it here. This is the beginning of my...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 5:36 AM • 4 Comments
Category: Politics and Science
Mother Jones has just put up an amazing timeline of the march to war with Iraq. It runs from August, 1990, up through 2003. It's incredible. You need to check it out here....
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 5:27 AM • 1 Comments
August 29, 2006
Category: Hurricanes
Something fascinating and more than a little spooky is happening right now with Hurricane John in the eastern Pacific. The storm is undergoing rapid intensifcation, so rapid that it has developed what forecasters call a "pinhole eye"--an extremely tight...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 6:56 PM • 2 Comments
Category: Hurricanes
I heard no promise of Category 5 hurricane protections for New Orleans. Indeed, you can search the whole speech. It's vague on just how strong the rebuilt levees will ultimately be. The most explicit promise is this: "We're working to...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 3:39 PM • 10 Comments
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
Timed for the Katrina anniversary, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has put out a short report on the hurricane-climate issue (PDF). Without taking a premature stand on who is or isn't winning the scientific debate at the present moment, I'd like...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 10:05 AM • 5 Comments
Category: Politics and Science
Well, yesterday was the official pub date for the paperback RWOS: I haven't been to a major bookstore yet to see if they're there, but they ought to be. Meanwhile, my thanks to all the blogs who noted the pub...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 6:10 AM • 0 Comments
Category: Global Warming
Tom Toles has long been one of my favorite cartoonists--but even I was a little stunned when I saw his latest work, which essentially says, don't vote Republican if you care about climate change. I'm not used to cartoonists...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 5:35 AM • 10 Comments
August 28, 2006
Category: Hurricanes
It looks like Supertyphoon Ioke could completely overwash one of the U.S. possessions in the Pacific--the tiny Wake Island, which is comprised of 3 coral atolls and houses about 200 people who have now been evacuated. Apparently the whole...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:15 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Politics and Science
Over at the Huffington Post, I've got a longish entry on the conclusions I draw from the Katrina tragedy one year later. Check it out....
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:23 AM • 2 Comments
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