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Clive Hamilton has a post at HuffPo that takes a devastating look at the criminal, and in some cases terrorist, tactics the climate change deniers are employing. Go read it all, but here’s a sample (emphasis added): Climate denial has outgrown the early lobbyist strategies of oil corporations and conservative think tanks. Since 1997, Republican rhetoric . . . → Read More: Deniers declare war It seems that I’m far from the only person who has, shall we say, pointed reservations about geohacking. Specifically, I’m referring to HOME (Hands Off Mother Earth), a group that describes itself on its web site this way: Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E) is a global campaign to defend our one precious home, Planet Earth, against . . . → Read More: Phoning HOME on geohacking I’ve made no secret of the fact that I think EVs will be a huge success in the mass market, especially in the US. Apparently somewhat less than the entire world agrees with me, so let me take one more run at this. I start with the post on Autoblog Green, Ward’s: Nissan Leaf is a . . . → Read More: Underestimating EVs Two explanations for the ceaseless, breathless, and always senseless attacks of the climate change deniers have come to my attention. The first comes indirectly from change.org’s post, Latest IPCC Attack Is Particularly Ridiculous: Yesterday, Fox News and other right-wing sources trumpeted a report card that gave IPCC’s seminal 2007 study on climate change a failing grade. . . . → Read More: Climate change deniers explained Joe Romm has a long and unsettling post about a series of papers regarding climate change and other environmental changes, previously thought to unrelated. Royal Society Stunner: “Observations suggest that the ongoing rise in global average temperatures may already be eliciting a hazardous response from the geosphere.”: Periods of exceptional climate change in Earth history are associated . . . → Read More: Climate change’s long reach Time for the latest installment of, “Uh oh — it could be much worse than we thought.” This time the news comes from the bottom of the planet, and those vast ice sheets that cover Antarctica… Geologists Drill into Antarctica and Find Troubling Signs for Ice Sheets’ Future: If you think of Earth’s poles as fraternal twins, the Arctic . . . → Read More: Antarctica’s surprising past From the e-mail press release: THE CLIMATE DESK (WWW.THECLIMATEDESK.ORG) LAUNCHES UNPRECEDENTED JOURNALISTIC COLLABORATION ROLLS OUT Partners: The Atlantic, the Center for Investigative Reporting, Grist, Mother Jones, Slate, Wired, and the new PBS current-affairs show Need to Know SAN FRANCISCO-Today, in what Ad Age has hailed . . . → Read More: The Climate Desk Bill McKibben, author of the just-released book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, is doing a lot of interviews, and it makes for interesting reading, to say the least. One of the best interviews I saw with him appeared on Salon, “Eaarth”: Earth is over: What is “Eaarth”? The meaning behind the title is . . . → Read More: McKibben: Earth is over And speaking of using natural gas for transportation (as in part of my earlier post, The true face of shale gas), there’s the whole nasty issue of leaks. Natural Gas May Be Worse for the Planet than Coal: This week the U.S. Congress heard testimony supporting a bill that would push to replace diesel with natural gas in . . . → Read More: Another natural gas issue The Joint Operating Environment 2010 report from the US Joint Forces Command has been getting a lot of attention from many of the climate change and peak oil blogs the last couple of days, and with good reason. It discusses, from a US security perspective, many issues and trends, including globalization, demographics, energy, food, and . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Joint Operating Environment 2010 |
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