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DeLong and Deltoid on Roger Peilke Jr. "train wreck"

Roger Pielke Jr. has written the most Titanic whine in the history of the climate blogosphere, “Giant Fish, Big Fish and Minnows of the Liberal Blogosphere.”  And I do mean Titanic with a capital T.  Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid) calls it the “Pielke Pity Party.”  Eli Rabett calls it “The great Pielke meltdown.” The woe-is-me […]

Obama speaks on climate action from MIT

The naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized. But I think it’s important to understand that the closer we get, the harder the opposition will fight and the more we’ll hear from those whose interest or ideology run counter to the much needed action that we’re […]

Friday music blogging: Here We Go Magic

Here We Go Magic is the new project from Seattle singer-songwriter Luke Temple. It is quite a departure from his previous albums under his own name, which were folky, hummable affairs. HWGM, on the other hand, is like krautrock meets Graceland meets Bon Iver meets … a really big bong. Drony, pulsating, ethereal, gorgeous, occasionally […]

A2B verses A123

I’ve seen a couple of these A2B machines running around town. I finally spotted one on display at a scooter store. That’s my electric bike parked next to it. Some yahoo wanting to purchase an electric scooter to drive from his yacht at one end of a dock to the mailbox at the other end […]

No wonder public and media seem uniformed

UPDATE:  Yes, bad coverage by big media, including the NYT’s Revkin, is one reason there has been a modest decline since April 2008 in the number of Americans who know that there is solid (in fact, overwhelming) evidence the Earth is warming and humans are the primary cause (see here).  Big media “did” the global […]

Hunters and anglers rally for climate bill

A recent poll by the National Wildlife Federation, which counts more than 420,000 members across 42 states, found that 66 percent of hunters and anglers surveyed believed that global warming was already occurring. A Gallup poll in March 2009 found that only 53 percent of the general population shared the same view. People who spend […]

GOP proposes to cut solar technology funding

Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) is continuing his effort to limit the scope and spending of a solar technology bill headed to the House floor today with an amendment that would limit the length of the program and cut its funding levels. Broun has proposed a new amendment to H.R. 3585 that would provide $750 million […]

18 leading scientific organizations send letter to Senators

Here is the letter from 18 top U.S. scientific organizations: Dear Senator: As you consider climate change legislation, we, as leaders of scientific organizations, write to state the consensus scientific view. Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted by human […]

Bicycles, Trauma Centers, and Injury Severity Scores

Two recent articles have motivated me to do another biking post. First up is this one, from Science Daily Despite the wide-spread attention paid to the importance of wearing helmets, helmet use did not change during the time period of the study, and more than 33 percent of 329 bicycle injury victims had a significant […]

Coauthor of SuperFreakonomics apologizes to me

[Note:  The error-riddled book is now searchable again on Amazon, so readers can confirm that all of my excerpts were correct and in context.  The book has garnered a number of positive comments from (fast) readers, even on the climate chapter whose main conclusion has been rejected by its two primary scientific sources — see […]