From National Journal’s Waning Warming Debate: “According to a survey from ABC News, Planet Green and Stanford University, fewer than half — 47 percent — of Americans consider global warming an important issue to them personally, down from 52 percent in April 2007. Although a vast majority still think the planet is warming — 8 [...]
Tag Archives: global-warming
“Certainty Cannot Be The Standard”
July 18, 2008 – 01:00 pm
From the Washington Post’s A Bear’s Best Friends?: “[Global climate] predictions are, by definition, uncertain — extrapolated from climate patterns in the distant past, discerned from studying ancient layers of ice. But certainty cannot be the standard. We face unavoidable questions of risk and morality. Since even moderate climate changes could have dramatic consequences, how [...]
Hi-Def Global Warming
July 7, 2008 – 02:35 pm
From the Guardian’s Climate risk from flat-screen TVs: “The rising demand for flat-screen televisions could have a greater impact on global warming than the world’s largest coal-fired power stations, a leading environmental scientist warned yesterday. Manufacturers use a greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride to make the televisions, and…as a driver of global warming, nitrogen trifluoride [...]
Not All Good News is Good News
June 4, 2008 – 03:25 pm
From Slate’’s Does growing sea ice in Antarctica bode well for the future?: “We’ve all heard that the Arctic ice is disappearing, surefire proof that global warming will kill us all. But isn’t it also true that Antarctica’s ice is growing by leaps and bounds? Doesn’t that mean we’re getting into a lather over nothing?” [...]
Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change
August 30, 2007 – 10:41 am
From the NY Times’ article, Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change: “In late November, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization issued a report stating that the livestock business generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined. When that report came out, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals [...]
Recycling Rant, (or) Why Recycling Sucks
June 22, 2007 – 10:36 am
All right, let me first off say that when I talk “recycling,” I am talking about recycling, not composting. Composting rocks and everyone should do it, even though I don’t right now. But this is not about me. It’s about everyone else.
All right, lets get into it.
Recycling is a scam. It’s there to make everyone [...]
Links for June 11, 2007
June 11, 2007 – 09:00 am
Before we get to the links, let me first extend a hearty congratulations to the inestimable Teddy Haggerty and his new bride, Lisa, for throwing a wonderful wedding this past weekend. I think their ceremony may have been even shorter than mine and Dawn’s, and we eloped, for Christ’s sake! It was fantastic. Anyway, congratulations [...]
Inuit accuse US of destroying their way of life with global warming
February 12, 2007 – 11:28 am
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s don’t fuck with Eskimos. This is from Inuit accuse US of destroying their way of life with global warming: “A delegation of Inuit is to travel to Washington DC to provide first-hand testimony of how global warming is destroying their way of life and to [...]
Everythings Cool: Global Warming Action at Sundance TreeHugger
January 25, 2007 – 10:31 am
From Global Warming Action at Sundance: “800 Park City students, along with the cast and crew of “Everything’s Cool†formed a message with their bodies spelling out ‘Step It Up.’ The words morphed as the students changed positions to form ‘Go Carbon Neutral.’ The image also contained a circle with bear paws, representing carbon neutral [...]
When?-ter in Vermont
December 15, 2006 – 12:27 pm
I’m currently sitting in a coffee shop in Colchester, Vermont. The shop has a giant glass front that looks out over Mallet Bay on Lake Champlain. Colchester is just a few minutes north of Burlington. I’m up here today because Dawn had to do a work thing at St. Michael’s College, and since B-town is [...]
