Global Warming:
Okay, so...The Daily Show was pretty easy. Lewis Black's "Root of All Evil"? A bit tougher. I went on the show with Sean Carroll, Jennifer Ouellette, Clifford Johnson, Michael Shermer, and a number of other "scientists" for a schtick called...
Posted on April 18, 2008 11:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
According to the BBC News, China has already overtaken the US as the world's 'biggest polluter.' Dr. Max Auffhammer, lead researcher on an upcoming report in next month's Journal of Environment Economics and Management, explained his projections assume that the...
Posted on April 14, 2008 9:50 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My latest Science Progress piece is up: It's about what we would actually have to do to prepare just one sector (transportation) and one region (the Gulf Coast) for climate change. If you then extrapolate that to all sectors and...
Posted on April 9, 2008 3:21 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I haven't blogged in the last few days--what happened here over Expelled has been quite a shock to my system, and I'm still trying to process it. I will have something to say about all that as soon as...
Posted on March 27, 2008 1:37 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm Just One Person. What Can I Do About Global Warming? EARTH HOUR 2008 Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for...
Posted on March 18, 2008 9:04 AM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In its latest issue, Time magazine singles out "10 Ideas That Are Changing the World." One of those is very literal: geoengineering. Time's piece on the subject is a bit muddled--it lists iron fertilization of the oceans as a way...
Posted on March 17, 2008 2:34 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
While we dither and dilly and dally....the Post now reports on the latest climate modeling studies, suggesting yet again that it's even worse than we previously thought and than the IPCC said...we now need to go to zero emissions very...
Posted on March 10, 2008 10:51 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I did my latest Science Progress column on this subject, in light of recent research suggesting "green" biofuels like ethanol might actually be bad for the environment. My conclusion? ...enough doubts have been raised that no one can reasonably...
Posted on March 7, 2008 11:23 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I was very disappointed to see, when my latest issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine arrived, that it had an article by Bjorn Lomborg in it--downplaying the risk of global warming, as usual. I started out my career working for SI,...
Posted on March 3, 2008 10:29 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Clinton, Obama, and McCain have a lot in common on climate, but also perhaps a lot less than you might think. So, see here for what I think a race between two of them might mean for global warming policy....
Posted on February 7, 2008 4:29 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
..."not much," I'm afraid, is the answer to the question in the title of this post. In light of the recent, surprising tornado disasters in the South, I've done my latest Daily Green "Storm Pundit" item on the subject,...
Posted on February 7, 2008 2:13 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've just written a column about this to be syndicated by Blue Ridge Press, so I won't tip my hand yet...but instead I'll ask: What do you think? If it's a McCain-Clinton or a McCain-Obama race--i.e., a race in which...
Posted on February 6, 2008 8:35 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
From TreeHugger: For anyone who doesn't have Superman vision, the text from this striking image says: "Don't let this be our future. Save our rainforest, stop global warming". Sure it's creative and interesting. Alarmist to some and frightening to...
Posted on February 1, 2008 9:12 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So...there is talk that Lieberman-Warner will be coming up again soon in the Senate, which kinda baffles me. There are a whole host of reasons why it would be far better to have a climate change bill pass Congress in...
Posted on January 18, 2008 8:11 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Well, so Romney won Michigan. Sigh. I was a McCainiac in 2000, and I was just starting to feel a little bit of the buzz again. But that's not what I wanted to say. What's fascinating about Michigan, to me,...
Posted on January 16, 2008 9:02 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Watch this (unfortunately, not embeddable). The equation seems hard to refute: Worse and worse news from climate system + ongoing political inertia = more and more serious consideration of geoengineering schemes I don't think there's anything wrong with my math...
Posted on January 14, 2008 2:50 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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