Last week Adam Browning in the invaluable Gristmill alerted me to a column by veteran Washington Post writer David Ignatius, who thoughtfully looked at the trouble reporters are having reporting on climate change: One of the puzzles if you’re in the news business is figuring out what’s "news." The fate of your local football teamContinue reading ““A Human Folly Beyond Imagining” of the White House Press Corps”
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
Bush Administration Tries to Silence Global Warming Scientist
The NYTimes leads today with the news that the Bush Administration has in recent weeks tried to silence James Hansen, the most widely known climatologist in the country, ever since he gave a speech on global warming in December. His crime? He said it still might be possible to avoid disaster. If we act now,Continue reading “Bush Administration Tries to Silence Global Warming Scientist”
Fox Hack Attacked: Secretly Took Money from Big Tobacco
Now that it’s been revealed that one of its columnists was secretly taking big bucks (over $90,000 a year) from Big Tobacco, will FOXNews dump Stephen Milloy, the science abuser of JunkScience infamy? It’s an interesting question; already, as detailed on this site months ago, Milloy was horrified when FOXNews, under the influence of AlContinue reading “Fox Hack Attacked: Secretly Took Money from Big Tobacco”
Snowmen March Against AGW
This one (from the ever-reliable The Onion) is so cute I don’t even want to excerpt the story; read the whole darn thing. But here’s one of the insta-classic pics from the story, depicting a charismatic, articulate spokesman, speaking to a crowd, estimated at somewhere between 350,000…and 30,000.
A Pre-Katrina Worldview
In a speech last Friday, White House political advisor Karl Rove laid out the Republican battleplan for the 2006 elections, saying that: Republicans have a post-9/11 worldview and many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. That doesn’t make them unpatriotic — not at all. But it does make them wrong — deeply and profoundly and consistentlyContinue reading “A Pre-Katrina Worldview”
Even the Republican Party Has Soul, Says McCloskey, Joining Congressional Race
Today in Lodi, lifelong Republican Pete McCloskey announced his campaign for the 11th District of California, which is represented by rampaging anti-environmentalist Richard Pombo, a protege of Tom Delay. (Pombo denies the label, but even the Wall Street Journal highlights his extreme positions on the environment.) Here’s how McCloskey puts it: I run, in part,Continue reading “Even the Republican Party Has Soul, Says McCloskey, Joining Congressional Race”
Cool Eating: or, How a Vegetarian Diet Could Help Save the World
According to Gidon Echel and Pam Martin, at the University of Chicago, when it comes to global warming, reducing the amount of meat in your diet could be as meaningful as the car you drive. Here’s their paper (Download diet_energy_and_global_warming.pdf). Echel and Martin argue that "there is an order of magnitude parity in fossil energyContinue reading “Cool Eating: or, How a Vegetarian Diet Could Help Save the World”
“A Flickering Climate” is No Joke
A flood of news on climate change this week. Here’s a short list, with a few brief comments: This week in Washington a conference was held to celebrate the once-proud Environmental Protection Agency’s thirty-fifth birthday. Six former EPA chiefs–five of them Republicans–lambasted the Bush administration for failing to lead against the threat of global warming.Continue reading ““A Flickering Climate” is No Joke”
An Island of Bears
David Quammen, one of this country’s most thoughtful nature writes, editorializes today in the NYTimes against "delisting" grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park: Some people have argued that it’s important in principle to de-list the Yellowstone grizzly, in order to show that the Endangered Species Act can yield success stories. That’s like arguing that weContinue reading “An Island of Bears”
Al Gore: Movie Star? Or President?
Hard on the heels of his groundbreaking speech on MLK day, the LATimes reveals that Gore will be featured in a new high-profile documentary on global warming, soon to premiere at Sundance. As discussed on this blog recently, Gore has been getting rave reviews for his PowerPoint presentation on the issue, even from unlikely cornersContinue reading “Al Gore: Movie Star? Or President?”
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