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So says the Wall Street Journal
Speaking of good work by the MSM, the Wall Street Journal on Saturday ran an interesting little news story by John Fialka on why the long-term outlook for global warming may be "more dire than suggested" by the IPCC's just-released Fourth Assessment on Climate Change.
Two reasons: first, as Joe Romm mentioned in a post below, the report doesn't fully take into account the melting of inland glaciers. That's according to Tom Delmore, a climate modeler with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association.
Second, because of the limits of computing power, the report probably underestimates the amount of warming that will be caused by increasing amounts of water vapor in the atmosphere. That's according to Jim Butler, also with NOAA.
The story ran under an oddly inane headline, but it's well-reported, and very much worth reading.
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If You Blog It, They Will Come
A 21st-century gold rush hits the Brazilian Amazon Our fair city of Seattle was once a gold rush town, a way station for loading up on supplies and sex before heading to the Yukon. So we feel an affinity for the mud-caked prospectors combing a remote stretch of Brazilian rainforest in hopes of finding nuggets […]
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The Triple Threat
New plan would nearly triple Yellowstone daily snowmobile limit Gentlemen, stroke your engines: The National Park Service has issued a draft plan that would nearly triple the number of snowmobiles allowed into Yellowstone National Park each day, from 250 to 720. While the limit is lower than the average number entering the park daily before […]
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Unite to condemn right-wing attacks on science
Alan Sokal is is a professor of physics famous for perpetrating the Sokal Hoax, wherein he submitted a parody article to a postmodernist journal of semiotics called Social Text. The editors and peer reviewers [correction: it’s not peer-reviewed] there saw nothing amiss with a "transformative hermeneutics of gravity," so the piece got published. While the […]
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to have a crush on the Ah-nold?
… to have a crush on the Ah-nold? Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proven to be many things during his tenure, among them surprisingly green-leaning. Today he proves that even when he’s being catty and “uncensored,” he’s still a gentleman. Some of our higher-ups could learn a thing or two from him, don’t you think?
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NYT energy/environment coverage is top notch
We spend a lot of time out here in the Blog-O-Sphere© bagging on the MSM©, so it’s worth pointing out when they get something right. And you can’t say enough good things about The New York Times‘ energy and environment coverage. Its Energy Challenge series is the best thing going on our energy conundrum, and […]
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If you haven’t seen it already …
… don’t miss Andrew’s piece on the IPCC report.
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The safety of your cosmetics
Ever since a friend of mine went to aesthetician school and started talking about the safety -- or lack thereof -- of many beauty product ingredients, I've been obsessed with purging my makeup drawer of any and all dangerous goodies.
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What do you see?
Some of the very corporations once vilified by environmentalists promised to reduce by 10 million tons annually their collective output of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, the World Wildlife Fund announced. Sony, Nike, IMB, Polaroid, building-materials giant Lafarge and seven other top multinationals said they would fulfill their carbon pledge by no […]
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