climate change science
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Attention climate wonks: you can't take the politics out of politics
Princeton's Robert Socolow is the latest climate wonk to wistfully hope that we can tackle climate change through reasoned persuasion. That's unlikely.
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How Inhofe turns balloon animals into 'news'
Sen. James Inhofe blows so much hot air about climate change, he should work children's parties.
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Talking to the Tea Party about climate?
Is talking to Tea Partiers about climate that different from talking to your eco-friendly, politically savvy friends?
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The first rule of talking about extreme weather
Bringing up the connection between weather and climate change takes a problem of astronomical proportions and makes it far more concrete.
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Rick Perry thinks Texas climate scientists are in a ‘secular carbon cult’
The Texas governor still refuses to drink the climate science Kool-Aid, no matter how many Texas scientists try to make him see the light (and feel the heat).
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Murdoch's sins go way beyond the hacking scandal
News of the World's phone hacking has been offensive, but News Corp has done something worse: It damaged the public's understanding of climate science
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Bill McKibben avoids the fetal position
Bill McKibben's new Global Warming Reader brings together a range of writing on climate change.
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Can Florida's nature and people outrace sea-level rise?
Laura Geselbracht talks about what sea-level rise is doing to Florida's Gulf Coast.
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Climate models are creating a false sense of security, or at least insufficient terror
A commentary in Nature Geosciences has succeeded in ruining my Thursday by scaring the sh*t out of me. If you value your Thursday peace of mind, you should not read this post.