Covered a talk by the dean of climate reporters, Andrew Revkin, last week at UCSB, for the Santa Barbara Independent. In part because he got so sick of "the yelling" around climate, a couple of years ago Revkin gave up traditional reporting to teach at Pace University, and to run the great Dot Earth blogContinue reading “Andrew Revkin: on climate change in a post-media world”
Category Archives: climate
“I will not walk away from the promise of green energy”: Obama
This year, despite the failure of the solar firm Solyndra, to which a half-billion dollars of Federal aid was guaranteed, President Obama reaffirmed his support of green energy. He said so in January, when the right was stirring on pot of this issue, reminding one and all of a lost $535 million. The Prez confronted theContinue reading ““I will not walk away from the promise of green energy”: Obama”
Winner of Ventura county climate action award: 2012
Yours truly doesn't often win awards — it's been since college, actually — so when I won an award for my climate reporting (cited was Drought-Proofing Ventura County) it's news worth posting here. I was up against fellow reporter and friend Zeke Barlow, who unfortunately for the county has taken a job in Virginia,Continue reading “Winner of Ventura county climate action award: 2012”
Condors vs. wind turbines: Wildlife vs. green energy
Here's my story on this fascinating topic from the Star on Sunday, which my editor liked and nicely smoothed out for the centerpiece of the front page. Always interesting, watching a good editor at work. Great pics, too, from personal fave Juan Carlo.
Drought-Proofing Ventura County
How a water district is trying to shelter 600,000 people in Ventura county from the potential for drought or disaster; how the first attempt went awry, and how the second one will work — we hope. (Climate change is in the background of this story, but I didn't get into the projections — no time.) Continue reading “Drought-Proofing Ventura County”
The sound of climate change: Tom Toles
From the Washington Post's Tom Toles, of course:
The fun of ignoring climate change: Ted Rall
Ted Rall said he enjoyed drawing this 'toon. I think he deserves credit for putting together two impressive stats (even if I can't find the number for those Americans who don't think climate change is a problem, one-third of voters is in the ballpark).
The least known proof of global warming: phenology
A month ago Heidi Cullen, the hardest working weatherperson around, penned a NY Times op-ed about the least known proof of global warming, phenology: The climatologist Mark D. Schwartz at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and colleagues at the USA National Phenology Network have developed an index that can be used to estimate the date ofContinue reading “The least known proof of global warming: phenology”
Understanding the extreme weather/climate change link
At Dot Earth, Andy Revkin takes another whack at the link between recent extreme weather events and climate change. He begins as I did a couple of posts back, with the debate between Rahmstorf/Coumou at RealClimate and Marty Hoerling at NOAA. He doesn't put the March heat wave into the mix, but does add usefulContinue reading “Understanding the extreme weather/climate change link”
Still w/the Midwest heatwave: Climate Change? Yes or no?
Probably yes, the recent heat wave in the Midwest can be attributed to global warming, write Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou for RealClimate. They conclude their statistical discussion with: …let’s take the most simple case of a normal distribution that is shifted towards the warm end by a given amount – say one standard deviation. Then,Continue reading “Still w/the Midwest heatwave: Climate Change? Yes or no?”
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