Melting Down
Don’t look now, but…: Sea ice in the Arctic shrunk a dramatic 18% this year to a record low of 3.41m sq km, according to the official US monitoring organisation theNational Snow and Ice Data Centre in...
View Article‘Magical Thinking?’ Tu Quoque, David Remnick
New Yorker editor David Remnick says Obama needs to make dealing with global warming his priority of the second term: But Obama must now defeat an especially virulent form of magical thinking,...
View ArticleAnti-GM Environmentalist Repents
This, from Mark Lynas, a leading UK anti-GM crops campaigner, is something: I want to start with some apologies. For the record, here and upfront, I apologise for having spent several years ripping up...
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It’s Just A Flesh Wound
People who believe that the spike in global temperatures over the last 100 years are part of a natural cycle are going to have a much tougher time sticking to that line after the study released the...
View ArticleCO2: The Point Of No Return?
Grim news from climate scientists: The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported on Friday, reaching a...
View ArticleDon’t Invest In Beachfront Property
Or, alternatively, why my great-great-grandkids will have beachfront property if they just hang out in our town, 100 miles from the coast: The collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in West...
View ArticleIn Defense Of Global Warming Futility
I caught hell from some of you readers for heavily doubting that we are going to do anything meaningful to reverse or even slow the rate of putting CO2 into the atmosphere. I say that as someone who...
View ArticleClimate Change & Tragedy Of The Commons
Noah Millman has responded to my post about the futility of fighting global warming. I agree with this: But though a rise in sea levels and an increased incidence of extreme weather are the easiest...
View ArticleThe Crises We Don’t See
I read a couple of long pieces last night at bedtime that were scary but illuminating, and cast reflections on our own chief cultural crisis in the West. This requires some unpacking. First, John H....
View ArticleMany Syrias To Come
A reader posted a powerfully executed graphic story explaining Syria’s collapse as primarily (but not entirely) as a result of global warming. How did that happen? From 2006 to 2011, Syria experienced...
View ArticleThe Flood Next Time
And how was your weekend? Me, I spent most of it working on editing the Benedict Option book. It’s going slower than it should be because my body is slipping back into mono. Foggy brain, headache, need...
View ArticleHeat And Futility
We have hardly had a winter in Louisiana. We had two cold days, but that’s it. It’s been warm here all winter long. I have spent most days in January outside in a t-shirt. It’s miserable. Mosquitoes...
View ArticleThe Balmy North Pole
Look: The northernmost permanent weather station in the world, just 440 miles from the North Pole, has warmed to 43°F today — in the middle of months-long darkness during what is normally the coldest...
View ArticleGreat Floods And Mental Dikes
More bad news from Antarctica today — and from the ongoing global warming crisis: Antarctica’s ice sheet is melting at a rapidly increasing rate, now pouring more than 200 billion tons of ice into the...
View ArticleMelting Down
Don’t look now, but…: Sea ice in the Arctic shrunk a dramatic 18% this year to a record low of 3.41m sq km, according to the official US monitoring organisation theNational Snow and Ice Data Centre in...
View Article‘Magical Thinking?’ Tu Quoque, David Remnick
New Yorker editor David Remnick says Obama needs to make dealing with global warming his priority of the second term: But Obama must now defeat an especially virulent form of magical thinking,...
View ArticleAnti-GM Environmentalist Repents
This, from Mark Lynas, a leading UK anti-GM crops campaigner, is something: I want to start with some apologies. For the record, here and upfront, I apologise for having spent several years ripping up...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It’s Just A Flesh Wound
People who believe that the spike in global temperatures over the last 100 years are part of a natural cycle are going to have a much tougher time sticking to that line after the study released the...
View ArticleCO2: The Point Of No Return?
Grim news from climate scientists: The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported on Friday, reaching a...
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