Washington Post group writer George Will stands out in multiple ways. In terms of his writing, two arenas seem to rouse his greatest passion: baseball and global warming science denial. These two passions are highly interlocked, not because baseball players will have to deal with ever hotter summers in the future nor the debate about […]
Entries from July 2012
Will-ful double standards on statistics — and the Village’s tolerance of it
July 9th, 2012 · 3 Comments
Tags: global warming deniers · journalism
Conspiracy Theorist + Global Warming Denialist: The Missing Link Defined?
July 8th, 2012 · 6 Comments
When questioning media elite about how they give strong voice to anti-science global warming denialism, one of my (and others’) favorite analogies has been with those who believe the moon landings were faked in the desert. As per a years-ago letter published in the Washington Post, This brings to mind the fact that about 15 […]
Tags: climate zombies · global warming deniers
Will Mitt absorb this paper’s conclusions?
July 7th, 2012 · 2 Comments
A bit unreasonable, considering that the Deseret dominates with the Mormons in Utah, but is there reason to believe that Etch-A-Sketch Mitt Romney and other Mormons would pay more attention to the Salt Lake Tribune than many of the nation’s other leading newspapers? The Tribune‘s 7 July 2012 lead editorial’s title: A Hotter West: Climate […]
Tags: climate change · Global Warming
Tipping point on climate change politics?
July 7th, 2012 · 3 Comments
This guest post from eOz derived from a response to something that I wrote commenting about how the fires in Colorado and heat records falling across the country seemed to have people thinking climate change. eOz’s thoughts merits a posting of its own. I also work with a variety of clients, many of whom buy […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · Global Warming · guest post
Reality at the Tipping Point?
July 7th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Have humanity driven the climate system beyond the tipping point beyond which preventing catastrophic climate chaos is no longer a viable option? Have emergent catastrophic climate chaos, as evidenced in US wildfires and high temperature records falling like bowling pins, created a tipping point in American public opinion that might enable a movement toward actual […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · guest post
Speaking of Sea-Level Rise. Or, “Mom, don’t you know what I do for a living?”
July 6th, 2012 · 2 Comments
At the second annual Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) meeting on the military and climate change, John Englander gave a lunch-time talk based on his forthcoming book on sea-level rise: High-Tide on Main Street. Englander tried to structure his presentation as “non-partisan”, stating that his book aimed to reach people who might be ‘turned off’ by […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · science
Imagine Life Differently … An Independence Day Resolution for us (U.S.) all
July 5th, 2012 · 3 Comments
Global Warming … Peak Oil … Financial meltdown … these all threaten our future prospects, our ability to see a positive future reality for ourselves and descendents. George Herbert Walker Bush lies at the core of a driving motivation in my life. President Bush was facing a reelection battle against Bill Clinton, and so advisers […]
Tags: Energy