According to this graph from well-regarded public policy and polling outfit, PPIC, from a poll taken last summer, most Californians and most Americans believe that global warming has already begun: But it's different among Republicans: one-third believe global warming "will never happen." How do you compromise those two views?
Monthly Archives: February 2010
No editors? No problem! Except that…
France's most famous intellectual revealed to be inept Googler. From the Times of London: When France’s most dashing philosopher took aim at Immanuel Kant in his latest book, calling him “raving mad” and a “fake”, his observations were greeted with the usual adulation. To support his attack, Bernard-Henri Lévy — a showman-penseur known simply byContinue reading “No editors? No problem! Except that…”
Sierra butterflies hit by global warming, habitat destruction
A changing climate has hurt butterfly species in the Sierra Nevada, reducing species richness by about fifty percent in the last 35 years. so reports a team at UCDAvis led by Arthur Shapiro, and reported in the PNAS: Compounded effects of climate change and habitat alteration shift patterns of butterfly diversity — PNAS Here we present 35Continue reading “Sierra butterflies hit by global warming, habitat destruction”
Even Sarah Palin’s best friends don’t believe her
From Timothy Egan in his Grifters Tale in The New York Times: If Palin truly believed in the Tea Partiers and their discontent, she would not be charging $100,000 to stoke their fears [at an upcoming convention]. She can do that for free, on Fox. And what policy solutions does she offer the troubled middleContinue reading “Even Sarah Palin’s best friends don’t believe her”
Obama admits cap and trade is dead
This week the President admitted what D.C. insiders have been saying for months about the Democratic plan to control greenhouse gas emissions. ACES, The American Clean Energy and Security Bill passed by the House last fall, which is intended to control emissions by a cap-and-trade mechanism, is politically dead. At a town hall meeting inContinue reading “Obama admits cap and trade is dead”
Teens turn against blogging: more adults like it now
When I grow up, I want to work for the Pew Research Center. They study all the interesting questions, it seems, and all their centers have really long and impressive names, such as the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, the Pew Global Attitudes Project, and many others. Their latest publication (unless a new oneContinue reading “Teens turn against blogging: more adults like it now”
Get ready: seven foot sea level rise this century
If there is one question about climate science that went unanswered in the 2007 IPCC report, it was sea level rise. As the EPA notes, the report estimates a two-foot rise this century…at the most. But that estimate did not include the possibility of degradation of the polar ice sheets, which in the last twoContinue reading “Get ready: seven foot sea level rise this century”
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