Chris Mooney is a freelance writer and the author of two books, The Republican War on Science and Storm World.
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February 28, 2007
Category: Updates
Storm World, my new book, has been "finished" for some time. But some forms of completion are more complete than others. For example, this week I've been getting the book's "galleys"--i.e., the not-quite-final version that goes out to media and...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 10:12 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2007
Category: Hurricanes
Something very interesting has happened to Cyclone Gamede in the South Indian basin over the past day or so. Due to "competing steering influences" (as the Joint Typhoon Warning Center puts it), the storm hasn't moved much. Instead, it...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
He says global warming is "Satan's attempt to redirect the church's primary focus" towards environmentalism. He also says the "jury is still out" on the subject. Personally, I think Falwell should have stuck with bashing Teletubbies, blaming gays and feminists...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 7:54 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Updates
Last week, when I was hanging out at the AAAS meeting in San Francisco, I ran into someone I hadn't seen in a long time: New York Times columnist John Tierney. Tierney isn't someone who I know particularly well, but...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 7:30 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2007
Category: Global Warming
I have just contributed an item to the website Gather.com about Bush's (or to be more precise, his administration's) lying on the subject of global warming. Twenty comments have flown in so far. Feel free to head on over there...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 1:45 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
On Friday I noted that Vice-President Cheney apparently still does not accept the scientific consensus on global warming. True, Cheney concedes that humans might be contributing to the problem. But that's not the mainstream scientific view at this point. Rather,...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:30 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
Casey Luskin has now dug into my past and found some secularist credentials from my college days. Apparently he views this as some sort of smoking gun. As he puts it: "Chris Mooney provides a yet another example of the...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 6:55 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2007
Category: Updates
Many visitors to this blog will already know who Professor Steve-Steve is. For those who don't, go here. In any event, it's kinda ancient history now...but last October, when I was in North Carolina giving a few talks, I actually...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 8:50 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2007
Category: Hurricanes
Hurricanes can vary dramatically in size, and it's my understanding that there is not any meaningful correlation between storm size and storm strength. For instance, last week's Category 4 Cyclone Favio, which caused serious damage to Mozambique, was a relatively...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 7:47 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2007
Category: Hurricanes
One of the most devastating tropical cyclones of 2004 was Cyclone Gafilo, pictured at left, which struck northern Madagascar at full Category 5 intensity, causing destruction that left hundreds of thousands homeless. And while it's too soon to say...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 4:45 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
Recently the White House assured us that president Bush has "consistently acknowledged climate change is occurring and humans are contributing to the problem." But perhaps it all depends on what the meaning of "contributing" is. After all, here's Dick Cheney:...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 1:53 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Hurricanes
This from Reuters AlertNet: On Thursday, the cyclone Favio demolished large parts of the southern coast in the province of Inhambane. Winds reportedly hit 240 km/h as the storm tore through the tourist town of Vilanculos heading north past outlying...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 8:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2007
Category: Hurricanes
As Cyclone Favio makes landfall in an already flooded Mozambique--striking the provinces of Inhambane and Sofala as a Category 3--I am prompted to reflect a bit on what the South Indian cyclone season of 2006-2007 has shown us so...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 2:37 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2007
Category: Hurricanes
First, the good news: Favio has weakened back down to Category 3 as it approaches landfall in Mozambique. Certainly no one is out of the woods yet; but there no longer seems much chance of a Category 4 landfall...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 10:37 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Updates
As mentioned before, tonight I'll be participating in the Bookslut.com reading series here in Chicago, along with two distinguished science writers, Deborah Blum and Jennifer Ouellette. Here are the details: 7:30pm Hopleaf Bar 5148 North Clark Street, Second Floor...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 9:25 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2007
Category: Hurricanes
Click here or here for the high resolution version of this NASA graphic. Meanwhile, here's a pic from Meteo France with a much broader view of the South Indian basin, showing both Favio as well as another potential cyclone...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 4:34 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
