This week our nation's most influential newspaper ran a thoughtful, tough-minded op-ed on what to do about climate change that broke a lot of new ground…and seems to been overlooked. I haven't linked previously, because I'm still mulling its ideas. But the time has come to recommend it to my readers. It's called Disaster atContinue reading “Plan Z: preparing for the mega-catastrophe”
Category Archives: climate
A global warming skeptic walks outside…
…and meets reality. Courtesy of Lee Judge, of the Kansas City Star.
Newspapers catch up to climate science
Or at least, The New York Times does… Is Weather Chaos Linked to Global Warming? Probably. "The summer’s heat waves baked the eastern United States, parts of Africa and eastern Asia, and above all Russia, which lost millions of acres of wheatand thousands of lives in a drought worse than any other in the historical record.Continue reading “Newspapers catch up to climate science”
USS Climate Change Denial hits a rough patch
From the inimitable Mr. Toles….
Horrific Flooding in Asia — as predicted by the IPCC
One-fifth of Pakistan is now underwater, the headlines say. Thousands have died, and this is expected to go down as one of "the worst natural disasters in history." But how "natural" is this disaster, really? Just an hour ago the Associated Press posted the first news story to look at the flooding in Asia, theContinue reading “Horrific Flooding in Asia — as predicted by the IPCC”
Greenland ice sheet doomed: Richard Alley
While I was on vacation last week, nothing much seemed to happen. Oh, massive flooding in Pakistan, heat waves in Russian, but beyond disasters in foreign countries, no one I talked to recalled anything. Today I come across a report in The Guardian that Richard Alley, perhaps this nation's premier expert in ice sheet formationContinue reading “Greenland ice sheet doomed: Richard Alley”
Denier claims Russian heat wave “random numbers”
According to the Russian Meterological Center, the heat wave and forest fires afflicting that nation are the worst seen in at least a thousand years. Russia has recently seen the longest unprecedented heat wave for at least one thousand years, the head of the Russian Meteorological Center said on Monday…. “We have an ‘archive’ ofContinue reading “Denier claims Russian heat wave “random numbers””
Ignoring a mortal threat: Appeasing climate change
A couple of weeks ago Tom Toles, in his witty but sharp way, brought up a powerful argument in the climate opinion wars. To ignore climate change, a mortal threat to our way of life, he said is comparable to appeasing Hitler in the late 1930's. Toles wrote: let me be the first to haulContinue reading “Ignoring a mortal threat: Appeasing climate change”
Tracking 2010: in the race for the hottest year ever
The famous columnist George Will drives even his fellow editorial writers a little nuts with his condescending dismissal of global warming. As the LA Times wrote in an editorial yesterday: You probably won't hear it from columnist George F. Will, Fox News commentators or the plethora of conservative blogs that have claimed global warming essentiallyContinue reading “Tracking 2010: in the race for the hottest year ever”
Obama accepts inaction on climate as bill dies in Senate
Tim Dickinson blames Obama for what became official today: the comprehensive energy/climate bill is dead. David Roberts blames Republicans and centrist Democrats, and sees no silver lining. Yet at the same time, as numerous publications have pointed out, the coal industry has lost its mojo, in part because of campaigns such as the Sierra Club'sContinue reading “Obama accepts inaction on climate as bill dies in Senate”
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