Yesterday the Washington Post published an op-ed on climate change that, if it were a hurricane, would have to be rated Category 5. Entitled "We’re All New Orleanians Now," Mike Tidwell argues: Barring a rapid change in our nation’s relationship to fossil fuels, every American within shouting distance of an ocean — including all ofContinue reading “Category 5 Level Argument against Inaction”
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
Song of the Redwood Tree (Sunday Morning on the Planet)
Excerpted from Walt Whitman’s "Leaves of Grass." The poem was written in 1874: Sixty years later, the California legislature named the sequoia the state tree. "Song of the Redwood-Tree" The flashing and golden pageant of California, The sudden and gorgeous drama, the sunny and ample lands, The long and varied stretch from Puget sound toContinue reading “Song of the Redwood Tree (Sunday Morning on the Planet)”
Graph of the Week: Indications of Change
Here’s a graph, from a good clear NOAA website called Artic Change. (Amazingly, this site seems to have escaped the Bush administration meddling that has marred some other gov sites on this topic.) This graph breaks down climate not in terms of temperature but in terms of change, using principal component analysis. It’s a potentContinue reading “Graph of the Week: Indications of Change”
Capitalism v. Environmentalism
Don Boudreaux, an economist, argues that to doing nothing is the best policy for global warming. As David, biodiversivist, Deltroid, and Think Progress point out, this argument has a lot of screws loose. (Think Progress also has up a great picture of Boudroux, who looks truly insane. He is also, by sheerest chance, on theContinue reading “Capitalism v. Environmentalism”
Okay, So Not Everything Is Serious
God, I’d Like to Return this Woman, Please (Hat tip to "Overheard in the Office")
The Mustache Calls Out Cheney on GOP Denial
I’ve been a bad blogger. Crushed under work, journalism, and a huge party for our good friend Deb Norton’s 40th birthday, I just haven’t been able to focus on blogging, dang it. But I’m not giving up; just trying to find some time. Here’s a snippet from a good column by Tom Friedman (or "TheContinue reading “The Mustache Calls Out Cheney on GOP Denial”
Sunday Morning on the Planet (Dawn and Gustavo edition)
From the incandescent performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ayre last month in Ojai, featuring Dawn Upshaw and Gustavo Santaolalla. (Contemporary classical music has at last shaken off the 20th-century pretention that atonality is progress. Noise-shy audiences are slow to realize this, unfortunately, but with the possible exception of some of Lou Harrison’s work, I can’t thinkContinue reading “Sunday Morning on the Planet (Dawn and Gustavo edition)”
Line of the Week
Although he’s not my favorite talk-show host, Jay Leno is undeniably a funny guy, and a very hard worker. (Personally, I’m old school: I like David Letterman, who as the late great Neil Postman liked to point out, specializes in pulling back the curtain and revealing the trickery of TV.) But in Hollywood it’s generallyContinue reading “Line of the Week”
Healing the “Self-Inflicted Wound”
Never thought I’d be quoting Arnold Schwarzenegger on any topic, far less global warming, but I think he more than any other politician deserves credit for nailing the most troubling aspect of anthropogenic climate change–that it’s a "self-inflicted wound." But as climate scientist Brenda Ekwurzel points out in a letter to USA Today, that hasContinue reading “Healing the “Self-Inflicted Wound””
Sunday Morning on the Planet
I’ve been trying for two weeks to find the time to talk about the fog and the possibility it might be leaving us here in California in the future…but it’s a complicated subject and I just haven’t been able to pull it together. But we can still be thankful when it comes…
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