Tom Yulsman ventures back into the political dangerous terrain left by another Al Gore exaggeration on climate change: In an interview with the Guardian yesterday, the Nobel prize winner said business leaders are realizing that action is required on climate change because they are “seeing the writing on every wall they look at. They’re seeing …
It’s not that we haven’t done The Right Thing. It’s that there is no Right Thing. The problems are fundamental: The competition-deflecting effects of printing cost got destroyed by the internet, where everyone pays for the infrastructure, and then everyone gets to use it. And when Wal-Mart, and the local Maytag dealer, and the law …
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Climate scientists, apparently, are a dour, grumpy bunch, while economists have the cheerful demeanor of a plucky role model heading enthusiastically into the future.* This, at least, is the impression left by Jean-Marie Macabrey’s account** of last week’s Cophenhagen climate fest: At the congress, it seemed that all the scientists had to share with their …
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Global food prices are down 6 percent from one month ago, 34 percent from a year ago, according to the Economist’s food price index.
Over on the work blog, I pronounce New Mexico’s Western Climate Initiative legislation not quite dead but almost.
Helene Cooper on her first ride on Air Force One: As we took off, the flight attendant motioned to the white telephone between one of my colleagues and me. “You can use the phone to make a call anywhere you want,” he said. I snatched up the phone, excitedly. “I’m going to call my sister …
As I’ve gotten older, one of my great joys as a journalist has been to watch the kids come through the newsroom, young journalists starting their careers with fire in their bellies and a naive but sincere passion for using journalism to help change the world. Which is why this was so sad to read: …
L and I took a drive out on the eastern side of New Mexico’s central mountains today, up the Pecos River through the little villages of Villanueva and Ribera. You can think of the Pecos as a dividing line between the country’s great flat middle and the broken geology of the southwest. The phrase “west …
Daniel Collins at Crikey Creek has a great suggestion for folks in the water blogging community: In the spirit of World Water Day, and in an effort to contribute towards transboundary cooperation, I propose that all us waterbloggers (and other bloggers too!) dedicate one or more of our posts that day or beforehand specifically to …
David Zetland, on the emphasis on water supply (at the expense of discussion of demand) in a new federal report on water and climate change: I just wish that more than two percent of the report was concerned with demand-side strategies. Relying only on the supply side is like one hand clapping.