"We have no intention of prosecuting Rush Limbaugh because lying through your teeth and being stupid isn’t a crime." —Marc Dann, speaking for the Ohio Attorney General’s office, on why the state doesn’t intend to prosecute the radio host for inveigling Ohio Republicans to change parties to vote for Hillary Clinton–
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
The American West: Hotter, Drier, More Disease-Prone
The lede from ScienceDaily: The American West has warmed 70 percent more than the planet as a whole, according to a new analysis in a new report released by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The West’s most pronounced temperature increase is in the Colorado River basin, whichContinue reading “The American West: Hotter, Drier, More Disease-Prone”
“Humility and Remorse”: A Southern Baptist Conversion on Climate Change
Jonathan Merritt is a young theologian in Atlanta who broke into the national conversation this month by championing within the conservative Southern Baptist faith the declaration of a new set of principles regarding creation care and climate change. While noting continuing debate on some global warming questions, the declaration made a point of stating thatContinue reading ““Humility and Remorse”: A Southern Baptist Conversion on Climate Change”
Racist Democats Don’t Like Obama
A shocker! From the latest Pew Research Center poll: In particular, white Democrats who hold unfavorable views of Obama are much more likely than those who have favorable opinions of him to say that equal rights for minorities have been pushed too far; they also are more likely to disapprove of interracial dating, and areContinue reading “Racist Democats Don’t Like Obama”
Jaw-Dropping Web-Only Commentary
Much as I feel for newspapers and their reporters as they are being cut to shreds, it must be said that commentators and the communities they attract on the web are remaking print discourse for the reading public in some jaw-dropping ways. We may all be getting "free jobs" soon, but at least we’ll haveContinue reading “Jaw-Dropping Web-Only Commentary”
Sea-Level Rise, According to Michael Tobis
Michael Tobis, a climate scientist with a dry sense of humor and a wide-ranging thoughtfulness, succinctly discusses the crucial issue of sea-level rise on the globalchange Google group discussion list. (Look a few posts down, if you want the context.) He’s talking about Al Gore’s discussion of sea-level rise in "An Inconvenient Truth." Worth aContinue reading “Sea-Level Rise, According to Michael Tobis”
Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapses
Can we appreciate the bluntness of Seth Borenstein’s reporting for the AP on this? I can…note the factual but alarming phrases he uses, such as "suddenly" "collapses" "risk" "runaway" "global warming" and "British scientist." No false balance in this story. WASHINGTON — A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenlyContinue reading “Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapses”
The 2007-2008 La Nina: Coldest in A Decade
A nice chart by NASA of seasonal temperature anomalies, via Climate 411 and Environmental Defense, succinctly makes a point about the cold winter we just experienced, which is that the cold temps of the past couple of months…would have been normal just twenty-five years ago. For more, see the short but unusually informative post byContinue reading “The 2007-2008 La Nina: Coldest in A Decade”
Why the King Salmon Crashed in CA in 2007
Even the experts still aren’t sure. But The San Francisco Chronicle, in the person of Jane Kay, follows up, and brings a little more specificity to the question. Still no mention of La Nina/the PDO, but buried deep in the story is the news we half-expect, half-fear: In 2005 and 2006, the years that theContinue reading “Why the King Salmon Crashed in CA in 2007”
Global Warming Quotes, via the WSJ
A superb selection of quotations on global warming, almost all of them (save from James Hansen) new to me, courtesy of The Wall Street Journal. The first, in some ways, is the best: 1979 “It is the sense of the scientific community that carbon dioxide from unrestrained combustion of fossil fuels potentially is the mostContinue reading “Global Warming Quotes, via the WSJ”
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