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I’m shocked, shocked! I tell you!, to hear that deniers are being paid to lie… Most Credible Climate Skeptic Not So Credible After All: Patrick Michaels has more credibility than your average climate skeptic. Unlike some of the kookier characters that populate the small world of climate denialists—like Lord Christopher Monckton, a sometime adviser to Margaret Thatcher who . . . → Read More: Patrick Michaels, bought and paid for Another day, another excellent Climate Denial Crock of the Week video: This one is a particularly good video to send to your co-workers, brother-in-law, etc. who “just don’t believe people can change the whole planet” or some other fuzzy brained train of non-thought. Which reminds me–when I was a kid living in Union City, NJ, one of my . . . → Read More: Must-see Crock of the Week OK, it’s not a new strip, but it’s still darn near perfect… When you get a chance (like right now), visit the . . . → Read More: xkcd strikes again Our friends at NASA have a page on their Earth Observatory site (which should be on your list of “check every day” sites, needless to say) about the Mertz iceberg, Collision Calves Iceberg from Mertz Glacier Tongue, Antarctica : Image of the Day: At 94 kilometers (58 miles) by 39 kilometers (24 miles) in size, the B-09B . . . → Read More: NASA images of Mertz iceberg I’m once again compelled to point out that we know far less than we’d prefer about ice dynamics–all those melting and flowing and calving glaciers involving chunks of ice the size of various US states or (sometimes) small countries. The critical point is not just that we know less than “would be nice”, but that . . . → Read More: Ice dynamics, again Let me be the 187th person to tell you to go read Bill McKibben’s, The Attack on Climate-Change Science Why It’s the O.J. Moment of the Twenty-First Century. It’s a longish, detailed, and deadly accurate look at climate change deniers and their tactics. I can’t recommend it highly enough. (To be blunt, I could have . . . → Read More: McKibben: The Attack on Climate-Change Science Oh. My. … Meet the Flintstones | The Texas Tribune: Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. The differences in beliefs about evolution and the . . . → Read More: Descended from dino-wranglers Honestly, there are times when I think satire is superfluous when talking about energy and enviro issues. The latest case in point? Try the brain-bender, Steven Newton: Denying Science, Legislating Reality: Last week, the South Dakota House of Representatives passed HCR 1009, a resolution calling for the “balanced teaching of global warming in the public schools of . . . → Read More: Welcome to Stone Age Dakota Earlier today, Wal-Mart announced an initiative to reduce the life cycle carbon footprint of products they sell. (See TreeHugger’s coverage, including Walmart’s SVP of Sustainability Fills in a Few More Details on Their 20 Million Ton GHG Reduction Plan, and TNR’s article, Can Wal-Mart Use Its Power For Good?.) Basically, they’re looking at cutting 20 million . . . → Read More: Caution! Falling footprints! Most regular readers of this site are probably aware that Vermont Yankee, the nuclear power plant in Vermont, the one with the tritium leaks (now and years ago; see below), will not have its license renewed in 2012. Bradford Plumer has a good take on this, Vermont Senate Pulls Plug On Nuclear Plant: I don’t think this spells . . . → Read More: Nuking a nuke |
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