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Good, random stuff
Some random bits I’ve been meaning to get to: ThinkProgress says: This morning on ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos reported that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) "is considering setting up a special committee in the House to deal with climate change and global warming." Also on ABC, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) called climate change "the most […]
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Or at least the Virgos therein
Reading my local alt-weekly The Stranger the other day, I happened to notice my horoscope for the week, courtesy of Free Will Astrology: Patriarch Bartholomew, the leader of the Orthodox Christian Church, has a flock of 300 million. Unlike most other religious leaders, he crusades for the preservation of the environment. “To commit a crime […]
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Young bucks make cool bikes
I am always biking past interesting characters like David and his dog Odin. Dave had welded up a sidecar so his dog (who extends his paw at the mention of the word cookie) wouldn't feel lonely being dragged around in a trailer. He has carried everything from a cat to a 190-pound guy in it. This is what the entrepreneurial spirit is all about. If you can't buy what you want, build your own and sell it. -
Opportunity costs redux
The Bush administration is working on plans to spend $100 billion on new nuclear weapons. Tell me again how fighting global warming is too expensive.
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Naked, warm, angry dudes hold silent protest of global warming
The Coney Island Polar Bear Club staged a silent protest on Saturday, huddled (but not shivering) on the beach in Brooklyn as record temperatures were recorded in New York City and the surrounding region. The high temperatures may lead to the cancellation of this year’s round of nearly-naked nuts running into bodies of water. It […]
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What is this ‘good news’ you speak of?
Oh hell yes: Opponents of oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge are going on the offense after playing defense for a quarter of a century. They want the new Democratic Congress to make an oft-challenged drilling ban permanent. Legislation introduced in the House on Friday would make the oil-rich 1.2 million-acre coastal strip of […]
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The former says nothing about the latter
“We found that there is just no way that the observed changes [in hurricane strength] [in sea-surface temperatures] could be attributed purely to internally generated natural variability.” (see correction at bottom of post) So said Tom Wigley — one of many people at NCAR with more expertise and peer-reviewed papers in the area of hurricanes […]
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Some thoughts
Part of the confusion over Revkin’s article is that there isn’t one "climate debate." There are several. I’m going to taxonomize them in another post, but first I want to say something about the scientific one. This debate, as many folks have pointed out, is pretty much over. The denialists are wrong and they’ve been […]
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One woman’s eco-evolution, from off the grid to on the clock
Before: The simple life. In Chimacum, on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula, there are probably more dairy cows than humans. It is a place where it’s common to see a 1972 Ford F-100 hard at work, way past its expiration date. Where those who own a patch of ground extend their hospitality to friends to park […]
