Tag Archives: Climate Crisis

‘CO2 Levels Have Never Been This High’

Andrew Friedman reports the awful news (is it ever good news?): The news that CO2 is near 400 ppm for the first time highlights a question that scientists have been investigating using a variety of methods: when was the last … Continue reading
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Helping The Apocalypse

According to a new study, belief in the biblical end times makes people less likely to support measures to alleviate the climate crisis: The United States has failed to take action to mitigate climate change thanks in part to the … Continue reading
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Quote of the Day

“[W]e can’t repair the effects of past behaviour on our atmosphere as quickly and as easily as we might cleanse a stream or river. It will take, for example, until the second half of the next century, until the old … Continue reading
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Republicans Are Dominating State Politics, Destroying Science

My Thursday column: Many of us are enjoying our post-election schadenfreude, observing as the Republican Party increasingly marginalizes itself, demographically and politically, and scrambles to cut a narrowing path to the White House while also attempting to shove the tea … Continue reading
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The Most Ridiculous Thing You’ll Read All Day

And it comes to us from Andrew Stuttaford of the National Review Online, who writes: “We waste a fortune on measures (that will have no impact for decades, if ever) to tamper with the climate. Some of that money would … Continue reading
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Super Stupid

Very Serious George Will continues to confound rationality with his total ignorance and deliberate deception on the climate crisis. In his latest piece, he attacked the president for connecting the upswing in wild fires with global warming in his inaugural … Continue reading

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Feeling a Little Better About Brian Schatz

The incoming senator from Hawaii: “For me, personally, I believe global climate change is real and it is the most urgent challenge of our generation,” Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz (D), whom Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) tapped for the seat, … Continue reading

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Eat Less Beef

My Tuesday column explains how to win a free car (sort of)… Today I’m going to teach you how you can get a free Prius, and you barely have to do anything to get it. Until recently, I owned a … Continue reading

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Good News: We’re Driving More Fuel Efficient Cars

We’re driving slightly less often, using less fuel and creating fewer emissions: Brad Plumer reports: New vehicles purchased in November of 2012 got 24.1 miles per gallon, on average. That includes all new cars, SUVs, and light trucks. By contrast, … Continue reading

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The Climate Cliff

My Thursday column is pretty grim: Credit where credit is due, Matt Yglesias coined the phrase “climate cliff” via Twitter the other day in reference to the now inevitable 2°C global temperature increase. I liked it so much I thought … Continue reading

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