Dan Bloom, a climate blogger and reporter working out of Asia, picked up a troubling fact from the great scientist James Lovelock–that soon we will see polar cities–and has worked relentlessly over the last eleven months to make the world pay attention. He’s beginning to make headway: a Chinese blogger picked up images he postedContinue reading “Dan Bloom Breaks Through on Polar Cities”
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
Denier of the Day
"The current age of global warming politics will certainly end with a whimper once a few consecutive years of cooling are recorded. Why should we expect such cooling? Because the forces that caused warming and cooling in the past, before the advent of industrial civilization, are still at work." Holman Jenkins, Jr., Wall Street JournalContinue reading “Denier of the Day”
Global Warming: A Hopeless Case?
The embattled Los Angeles Times has put a tough reporter on the climate change beat: Alan Zarembo, who in his latest missive on the eve of the Bali conference, lays out exactly how ineffective the Kyoto Protocols has been at reducing carbon emissions world-wide. All true, which gives certain right-wingers great pleasure. In the NationalContinue reading “Global Warming: A Hopeless Case?”
Tree Dressing Day
This past weekend, the first of December, was Tree Dressing Day in England — a new holiday designed to encourage awareness of trees, their local nature, their long lives, and of course their beauty. This idea comes from a particularly impressive and innovative environmental group in England launched many years ago by two women, calledContinue reading “Tree Dressing Day”
Global Warming a Communist Plot, Says Talk Show Host
Seriously. Phil Valentine, a talk show host and occasional columnist at the Tennessean writes: Apparently, I hit a nerve with a column I wrote a couple of weeks ago on global warming. Many of you took umbrage with my daring to connect the global warming movement to Marxism. Don’t get me wrong. I do notContinue reading “Global Warming a Communist Plot, Says Talk Show Host”
The End of Spend
Great headline (above) from a sidebar in Time on how to survive a recession. Any time you’re out of work, of course, you’re in a recession (and if you can’t get work, that quickly becomes a depression). Seriously. In economic terms, a recession is negative growth for two quarters in a row. That’s easily doableContinue reading “The End of Spend”
Australia Wants Emissions Reductions Now
Could the drought have changed Australia’s mind about climate change? Days after former Prime Minister John Howard and his party were swept from power, a stunning 93% of Australians polled want "the country to reverse its rising greenhouse pollution in five years," according to a survey of almost a 1000 voters. The European Union‘s ambassadorContinue reading “Australia Wants Emissions Reductions Now”
The Surprise Endings of T.C. Boyle
If there is an American fiction writer better able to surprise us with an ending than T.C. Boyle, I can’t imagine who it might be. Boyle is that rare talent whose work is realistic enough to grip the imagination, creating the possibility of happiness or disaster, and build up real speed towards the finale, allowingContinue reading “The Surprise Endings of T.C. Boyle”
Black Swan Sighted in Climate Sensitivity
Despite the indefatiguability of denialists, most of the facts of global warming are exceedingly well established. We know that the atmosphere is warming (about 2F, on the average, in the Southwest). We know that six out of seven world oceans are warming (see this colossal study out of Scripps, led by Tim Barnett). We knowContinue reading “Black Swan Sighted in Climate Sensitivity”
Best Debate Ever: Republicans on YouTube
I’ve been watching Presidential debates since the Carter-Reagan era, and I have never seen a more entertaining or more revealing debate than the Republicans on YouTube. Since the questioners knew this was their one and only shot at a national audience, they asked what they really wanted to know, without undue fawning and with goodContinue reading “Best Debate Ever: Republicans on YouTube”
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