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April 22, 2009
It is of course Earth Day today.
It is an appropriate launch day for a new Science Blog, Guilty Planet. Head on over there for discussions about whether or not humans are a parasitic plague on Mother Earth or not, and how we could choose to live in a sustainable way.
I even saw a link (not an…
April 21, 2009
I was asked recently to write a guest posting for the Reeftank as part of their effort to grow a scientifically minded audience. Not really having any extra time, (newborns will do that to you!) I offered and they accepted a recycling of a previous posting from October last year.
It is called "The…
April 20, 2009
I'm sure most of us remember how incoherent Sarah Palin was about climate change (well, okay, about most things), but John Boehner seems to have his sights set on out doing the master!
In an interview with George Stephanopoulos (partial transcript here) his mangling of anything even remotely…
April 20, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News April 19, 2009 Chuckle, Top Stories:Rapid Sea Level Rise,…
April 17, 2009
This just reported today from the Washington Post:
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposal today finding greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to the public's health and welfare, a determination that could trigger a series of sweeping regulations affecting everything from vehicles to…
April 16, 2009
Now this is worth checking out!
(for the incurious, it is a bit of fantastic photography of various insects)
The mosquito larvae are my favorite so far.
April 15, 2009
Two common assertions: melting sea ice has no effect on global sea level, and alarmists will grasp at every straw in trying to scare us all.
It turns out that they are both wrong.
Robert Grumbine has the details on why melting sea ice does in fact raise sea levels. In a nutshell, what is frozen…
April 13, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News April 12, 2009 Chuckle, Top Stories:Bonn, Red River Flooding,…
April 8, 2009
So, George Will and the Washington Post are at it again, head over to Things Break for the details.
These institutions are oblivious to their own impending demise, a demise that articles like George Will's show they fully deserve.
[Update: Grist notes that Will is called out by name by his own…
April 6, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is pattern recognition April 5, 2009 Chuckle,…
April 3, 2009
Giant Razor Clawed Crabs pose no threat, experts say At least I thought it was funny.
April 2, 2009
In case anyone has noted my recent absence in comment threads since Friday, March 27, 2009, well, I have a good excuse!
April 1, 2009
Michael Tobis finds an illustrative example of misleading with a scientific accent.
On a related topic, Robert Grumbine examines how to actually answer the question "Does CO2 correlate with temperature?" (More Grumbine Science recently added to the blogroll here, btw).
I have a couple of Sceptic…
April 1, 2009
Guest post from het, provider of the weekly feature "Another week of GW News"
Sandbag Central
(source: Boston.com)
When I see scenes like the 'sandbag central' Fargo stadium --- thousands of people shovelling sand, making and piling sandbags, fighting together for their city --- my heart swells.…
March 30, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundupskip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... March 29, 2009 Chuckle Top…
March 27, 2009
This was passed on to me for posting by het, just as a human interest angle to this current event
My brother David lives 50 feet from the Red River north
of Winnipeg about half way between Lockport and the perimeter
highway. You may have heard about the flooding across
the river at St. Andrews.…
March 25, 2009
I may be very late to the party, but I would still like to refer readers to Chris Mooney's Op-Ed response to the recent George Will fiasco.
Congratulations, Chris, it is very well presented and important material. I can't however share your warm fuzzies for the WaPo's change of heart, because,…
March 23, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundupskip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is pattern recognition March 22, 2009 Top Stories…
March 20, 2009
James Hrynyshyn at Island of Doubt yesterday put up a really interesting examination of the Copenhagen Conference's efforts to deal with just what is the "safety limit" for global warming. I won't add much accept to lament the fact that "as much as possible as soon as possible" is too vague for…
March 19, 2009
If tribal cultures could consider the seventh generation, we with our much greater power should be considering the seventieth. The thirty year horizon that economists and politicians consider very long range is just a blink in the geological history of our planet. Now that we dominate surface…
March 18, 2009
While on the subject of being talked about, a columnist writing for Pajamas Media recently took a pot-shot at me and my How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic series.
No publicity is bad publicity, right? Plus, a close second to imitation, mockery is another of the most sincere forms of flattery, at…
March 17, 2009
While on the subject of interviews, I was recently contacted with an interview request by the website The Reef Tank. Loath to turn down any opportunity to talk about myself (what do you expect, I'm a blogger fer cryin' out loud!) I filled out the question sheet they sent over and you can read the…
March 16, 2009
If you're in the same boat as I am (ie, you have a job and/or a life) you probably never get a chance to read every last article linked to in the latest "Another Week of GW news" posting (or even 1 in 100!) So I just wanted to point to the set of stories about "spin batteries" or nanoball-…
March 16, 2009
Elizabeth Kolbert, journalist and author of "Field Notes from a Catastrophe", is interviewed by Yale Environment 360 editor Roger Cohn.
The interview was put on their site mid-last week and readers might find it quite interesting.
Kolbert discussed a wide range of issues: how the media and…
March 16, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundupskip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News March 15, 2009 Top Stories:Copenhagen, Nanoballs, Spin Battery,…
March 9, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundupskip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is pattern recognition March 8, 2009 Top Stories:…
March 6, 2009
Heartland Institute is hosting a "scholarly" event in New York this weekend. Here is a description of what to expect.
March 4, 2009
Michael Tobis is famous.
(Okay, just until the rabid dogs of the right wing noise machine find another bone to obsess over.)
For the record: Michael Tobis is an intelligent, thoughtful and concerned man who does not deserve to be ridiculed, but rather read closely and contemplated. Pielke is a…
March 4, 2009
Great name, eh?!
Drop by and welcome a new member of ScienceBlogs.
Hi Kim!
(She used to be here)