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Chris Mooney is a visiting associate in the Center for Collaborative History at Princeton University and the author of three books, The Republican War on Science, Storm World, and Unscientific America.
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Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
It's been a while since I had a good string of talks lined up--it's harder, I think, to do a lot of them from the West Coast. But now I'm back east and about to embark for the first two...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 10:07 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
Like everybody else, I'm pretty surprised about Hurricane Paloma, which has just become the fifth major hurricane this year--a powerful Category 4 and tied for the second strongest storm ever to show up in the Atlantic in the month of...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 2:55 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
[Ike gathering strength in the Gulf.] With Hurricane Ike on course to--probably--slam Texas as a serious hurricane, I address my latest Science Progress column to the question of whether we can, defensibly, discuss global warming during hurricane season. My...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 1:15 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
So here's some news: The paperback of Storm World, with a new author afterword and a new Katrina cover, is officially published today. I haven't held a copy in my hands yet, but I know they've shipped from Amazon. You...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 9:54 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
It has recently come to my attention that Amazon is selling them for $ 8.49--a dramatic markdown from the list price of $ 26.00--so if you haven't gotten one yet but had planned on it or wanted to, now is...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 4:18 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
There has been some buzz of late over the idea that with a recent paper, MIT hurricane guru Kerry Emanuel is backing down from the stance that global warming has intensified recent hurricanes. But after reading the paper, I just...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 9:44 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
Yesterday, though I didn't get the chance to blog it, my latest Science Progress column went up. Entitled "Just Coasting," it's about the vulnerability of the US gulf states to climate change, and how government agencies are consistently failing to...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 6:46 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
That's the quandary I face tomorrow, when I'll be returning to New Orleans' Isidore Newman School--alma mater of, among others, Peyton and Eli Manning, Walter Isaacson, and Michael Lewis--to talk to the senior class. This isn't entirely a shot in...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 9:19 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
I'm not quite sure what is up with people...but, they seem to be buying, already, copies of the paperback edition of Storm World on Amazon. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that there's 5 % off on...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 6:59 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
Well, the book has been out for some five months now...but it was just recently reviewed in a top Canadian newspaper, the Toronto Globe & Mail. A quote: ...perhaps the most lasting legacy of Storm World is not its descriptions...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 3:16 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
