A Climate Central reporter tries to tease out the contribution of climate change to the unprecedented heat wave in the Midwest, mentioned above, but the attribution studies have yet to be done, and many questions remain. For instance, the extraordinary leap in temperatures this month in places like Michigan is due in part to theContinue reading “Midwestern Heat Wave: Attribute to global warming?”
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Climate: If it’s not a crisis, newspapers can’t be bothered
Talked to my mom last night, and mentioned to her that the Midwest is experiencing a heat wave the likes of which no one alive has ever really seen. The experts have been floored for a week. It's "unprecedented." Thousands of records broken. Jeff Masters' weather historian: "It's almost like science fiction –" BillContinue reading “Climate: If it’s not a crisis, newspapers can’t be bothered”
Climate: How do we tell this story powerfully?
Dave Roberts has a problem with the reaction to the revelation that Mike Daisey rewrote the truth in now infamous anti-Apple story. He thinks the moralizing journos at the NY Times sound a bit self-satisfied: It’s a weird and naive notion that there is a bright line between objective and subjective, fact and opinion, reality andContinue reading “Climate: How do we tell this story powerfully?”
Limbaugh a threat to GOP, warns conservative — in 2009
Almost exactly three years ago, David Frum — for decades a proud Reaganaut who, among his other efforts for the conservative cause, wrote speeches for George W. Bush — broke from right-wing orthodoxy and denounced Rush Limbaugh as a danger to the party. Every day, Rush Limbaugh reassures millions of core Republican voters that noContinue reading “Limbaugh a threat to GOP, warns conservative — in 2009”
Could global warming give us late, light flu seasons?
In Ventura, the Star's first-rate health and society reporter Tom Kisken documents the lightest flu season in decades. Seriously, for some reason, it's been 29 years since the flu season took until February to get started. Usually it happens by Christmas. That's according to the official Centers for Disease Control. Why so late? In CaliforniaContinue reading “Could global warming give us late, light flu seasons?”
Global warming is driving Rick Santorum crazy
Following Rick Santorum on the campaign trail for Slate, Dave Weigel declares that Santorum is "really swinging for the fences on global warming denial." Weigel thinks that's smart in Michigan, and maybe that's true in a purely political GOP primary, but still…he's sounding strange. And the strangeness seems to be escalating: We're not here toContinue reading “Global warming is driving Rick Santorum crazy”
Climate scientist admits deception, engulfed in drama
Peter Gleick, the scientist, the advocate, and the MacArthur Fellow, who helms the influential Pacific Institute, today admitted in his column that he did something he shouldn't have in his on-going struggle with the right-wing climate change skeptics at the Heartland Institute: I attempted to confirm the accuracy of the information in this document [that cameContinue reading “Climate scientist admits deception, engulfed in drama”
Santorum: Global Warming is a dangerous world view
Leading in the national polls in the Republican party, at least for this week, Rick Santorum denies on Face the Nation that he ever said President Obama wasn't a Christian, though he implied as much yesterday with a remark about his phony theology. Today he implies that Obama's faith has been corrupted by environmentalism: IContinue reading “Santorum: Global Warming is a dangerous world view”
Global warming stresses bird marriages
Scientific American has been a surprisingly sexy magazine as of late, with Jesse Bering's classic ode to semen, and now a cheeky look at global warming and bird biology. The headline: Climate Change increases mate-swapping in birds A study by Carlos Botero et al in PLoS ONE reveals that, the mag says: . Birds typicallyContinue reading “Global warming stresses bird marriages”
Biz mag publishes climate science: Heartland burned
One of the most fascinating revelations from the internal docs leaked from the Heartland Institute is about the business journal Forbes, which recently has begun publishing real honest-to-God climate science news. Unlike the Wall Street Journal. Wrote Heartland in its "Climate Strategy" doc: Efforts at places such as Forbes are especially important now that they haveContinue reading “Biz mag publishes climate science: Heartland burned”
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