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Bush forbade the intelligence community to provide satellite imaging to climate modelers; Obama reversed the decision. Makes sense if both of them think that the imaging will support global-warming claims.
Archive for the ‘Climate change’ Category
December 23rd, 2009
Category: Climate change, Uncategorized
Not a silly idea. But who’s going to manage it?
December 13th, 2009
Category: Climate change
The big difference between a 2 degree and 3 degree global warming target.
December 10th, 2009
Category: Climate change
If anyone tries to tell you that uncertainty about climate change is a reason for inaction, he’s either a fool or a scoundrel. Probably a bit of both.
November 24th, 2009
Obama’s climate diplomacy with India is constructive, modest — and realistic.
October 27th, 2009
Category: Climate change, Law Notes
The most conservative federal appeals court in the country sides with plaintiffs in a major climate case: the Supremes might step in soon.
October 20th, 2009
Geoengineering, as pushed by Freakonomics, means world government.
October 14th, 2009
Category: Climate change, Energy and Environment, Middle East Politics, Moral philosophy, Nationalism, Politics and Leadership, Uncategorized
If you’re still collecting evidence that a society built on extractive wealth is liable to moral pathology, put this one in your dossier. The Saudis are demanding that if we use less of their climate-toxic export, we should pay them (and the other oil-exporting countries) for what we don’t buy.
Let us pause in awe at [...]
September 25th, 2009
Category: California Politics, Climate change, Energy and Environment, Schwarzenegger, Watching Conservatives
Does Arnold Schwarzenegger care more about Tea Partiers or the planet?
August 30th, 2009
Once again, southern California is prey to wildfires, an environmental hazard that has become commonplace as the earth has heated up. But I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
