Posts filed under “Droppin Science”
Monkey See, Monkey Do?
TPM: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says he’s pulling his support for a bipartisan climate bill — seemingly killing its chances in this Congress — because, he says, President Obama has abandoned climate legislation in favor of immigration reform. So let me see if I’ve got this right. Lindsey Graham thinks that President Obama has abandoned [...]
If You Were Against It When Bush Did It…
…it’s OK when Obama does it, right? The Obama administration will approve significant oil and gas exploration off America’s coasts, including a possible sale two years from now of leases off Virginia’s coast, administration officials said Wednesday. The move, which President Obama will announce Wednesday morning with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at Andrews Air Force [...]
Real Scientific Disagreement About Global Warming
The bad news is that this is not only going to muddy the waters a heck of a lot, but may also set back prospects of meaningful action to address global warming any time soon. The good news is that global warming may not actually be real. Because this time it’s not just so-called scientists [...]
Jim Inhofe’s Moment Of International Stardom
What comment is even possible? This is the proverbial story that speaks for itself: Sen. Jim Inhofe flew across the Atlantic and — on little sleep — braved the snow, the cold and the dark to deliver his skeptical message at the international climate conference. What he found when he got here: a few aides [...]
Only A Deep And Abiding Thirst
The tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is literally fighting for its survival. Unfortunately, its survival depends on drastic action to fight global warming. In fact, it seems to depend on a worldwide agreement on target carbon dioxide levels (350 ppm) that neither developed nor developing countries are willing to agree to. Ian Fry, the [...]
Come Again?
As delegates converge on Copenhagen for the climax of two years’ hard work aimed at controlling emissions, AP offers this ill-considered headline: UN says climate finale may have happy ending Dear AP, in context, does that constitute success or failure? Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell [...]
The Nature Of Science
If you’re a fan of The Daily Show, you probably remember Jon Stewart being unaccountably super-sympathetic to SuperFreakonomics co-author Steven Levitt on October 27. Levitt, of course, is an economist-turned-amateur-climatologist. And Jon Stewart was being super-sympathetic about the book’s misconceived amateur climatology. To Stewart’s credit, he did acknowledge a few days later that he may [...]
The Mother of All Supercollisions
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is up and running again, and physicists are drooling at the prospect of the insights they are poised to gain into the basic mysteries of matter. (And dark matter, and antimatter, too, for that matter.) Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world’s largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter [...]