Chris Mooney is a freelance writer and the author of two books, The Republican War on Science and Storm World.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum is a marine biologist at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke. Sometimes she's a classicist, radio jock, or congressional staffer. Never sure what's next, she continues to enjoy the journey...
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August 31, 2007
Category: Politics and Science
This is pretty troubling. NASA is reportedly requiring longtime career scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center to go through FBI screening similar to what you need to get a security clearance. The new scrutiny is...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 2:56 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science and Religion
Since Monday's foray into the realm of religion, many readers have responded regarding: I just don't think these [atheist] books provide folks reason to notice they were atheists all along without a shepherd. Wouldn't that liken PZ to Abraham? Or...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 11:42 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
In which I discourse about hurricanes and global warming with Sarah Goforth of Discovery News: What do folks think of the ending, where--following my lead--the video contrasts the number of Category 5 storms between 1970 and 2002 (8) with the...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 8:55 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 30, 2007
Category: Framing Science
This is the picture--suspiciously resembling my colleague and Scibling Matt Nisbet--that runs alongside our two and a half page letters exchange (PDF) in the current issue of Science. Essentially, there are four letters reacting to and criticizing various aspects...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 6:09 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science and Religion
[God: "Go ahead, make my day."] I have been staying out of the science and religion mess lately--although I think it's already known that while I'm personally non-religious, I agree with Nisbet that going head-on at people's faith probably...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 2:41 PM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
During our casual 3.5 hour dinner last night, Bora and I got to wondering... Why isn't North Carolina's Research Triangle in grand prize destinations for the 500,000 comment contest? Winner receives a 5-day trip to the greatest science city in...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 12:56 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Hurricanes
In January of 2003, I sat in Joe Kelley's seminar at the University of Maine as he foretold the devastation that was to come to New Orleans. I'd never heard this chilling story before and listened intently as he explained...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 10:08 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Updates
[Matt Nisbet battles PZ Myers (artist's rendition).] Uh oh. There is some heavy talk coming out of some folks about this Minnesota thing in September. Greg Laden: Ladies and Gentlemen, Scoundrels and Aristocrats ... ... In this corner, we...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 7:45 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 29, 2007
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
And so this is what it has all been building up to: Leadership. If New Orleans is languishing right now, there's one chief person to blame. And if we're not investigating how global warming is going to change our hurricane...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 3:21 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
My first two Katrina posts announced the following "lessons": 1) science doesn't confer certainty about hurricanes and global warming; but scientific uncertainty doesn't justify inaction, either; 2) the issue of hurricane risks is much bigger than New Orleans. In other...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 2:12 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
There is going to be a lot of hand-wringing today about the relative lack of progress when it comes to rebuilding and redefending New Orleans. And rightly so. But kind of like with Fight Club, the second lesson to be...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:05 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
Sheril and I are going to give the blog over to the subject of Hurricane Katrina and its legacy today, in honor (and in mourning) of the two year anniversary. We're going to try to focus on lessons learned in...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 9:07 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 28, 2007
Category: Hurricanes
Just as we've begun to contemplate the implications of our changing physical environment - rising sea level, warmer temperatures, potentially stronger storms, ocean acidification, and so on... yet another cause for concern. Higher insurance rates are upon us! In my...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 1:56 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
Lots of people are putting out reports and such. A brief rundown of some things that have come across my desk: Center for American Progress (PDF). I really like the Center, but I must say I find their recently released...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:49 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
Well, this may be the best produced video segment that I've yet appeared in to talk about the book. Nice work, huh? I'm told it will be up on YouTube shortly....
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:38 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics and Science
This is still considered a scholarship competition. I'm not laughing....
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:58 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
