Category Archives: global warming

Six: “The proper place for a debate over greenhouse gas regulation is among policy makers, not in the court system”

Posted on September 5, 2010 by andrewo

Dion Lefler of the Wichita Eagle has the story.

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3,000-year-old chunk of ice parting ways with Ellesmere Island

Posted on August 26, 2010 by andrewo

But I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about.

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Can vuvuzelas raise the level of public discourse on global warming? I say yes.

Posted on June 24, 2010 by andrewo

With the vuvuzelas button activated, I wasn’t able to hear Inhofe’s conswervative claim that 1) there is no relationship between the BP disaster and cap and trade legislation, and 2) that the President is treating the disaster as a way … Continue reading →

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Why I have nothing left to say about Monckton

Posted on June 4, 2010 by andrewo

This pretty much says it all. But it is worth noting that John Abraham’s presentation does exactly what I think scientists should have been doing all along. A few have taken to the day-to-day trench combat along the starkly-drawn lines … Continue reading →

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More on Ridley

Posted on June 2, 2010 by andrewo

Last time I posted on Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist, a friend cautioned me to be careful about coming across like Walter Sobchak waving a gun around. So instead of firing off another 1500-word diatribe on this over-the-line blog post, … Continue reading →

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Pipeline an object of concern in Nebraska, Texas

Posted on May 31, 2010 by andrewo

(updated below) Nebraska Watchdog reports that multiple legislators in that state have raised concerns about the Keystone XL pipeline expansion project in advance of the U.S. State Department’s June 16 deadline for public comment: “As the leak in the Gulf … Continue reading →

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CBO smacks down carbon pricing

Posted on May 20, 2010 by andrewo

In what looks to me like a pretty big hit for the various advocates of carbon regulation, the Congressional Budget Office today included this among its “five lessons” on reducing greenhouse gas emissions: Lesson #4: An efficient system for reducing … Continue reading →

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Five thoughts on the state of climate science

Posted on May 13, 2010 by andrewo

In a letter to Science, a group of 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences distilled the essence of the problem down to the following five parts: (i) The planet is warming due to increased concentrations of heat-trapping gases … Continue reading →

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Without error bars, information is ugly

Posted on April 21, 2010 by andrewo

I couldn’t help but notice the folks at Watts Up With That are glorying in the Guardian’s mistaken report on the effect Icelandic volcano  Eyjafjallajökull is having on carbon emissions compared to European air travel. I’d have blogged about the … Continue reading →

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Greenpeace: We know where you live…

Posted on April 5, 2010 by andrewo

I’ve been tracing connections between Koch-funded think tanks and some of the bloggers reacting to this bit of unfortunate wording. (As far as I’m concerned, the article is one of the many kinds of free speech the law ought to … Continue reading →

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