Max and Jules Boykoff wrote a widely quoted paper back in 2004 that has been used as a cudgel to bludgeon the news media for providing a sort of false balance in coverage of climate change that amounts to a hidden bias. The argument is that mainstream U.S. media, in its instinctive search for “balance,” …
While I’m at it, another global drought report (I’m really just catching up on some news stories I set aside over the last week to read). This time Chile: Farmers in small towns in south-central Chile have lost crops and livestock in the drought blamed on the weather phenomenon La Nina. Rainfall records show the …
While we’ve been seeing news of extraordinary snows in China, folks in the north are in the grip of what sounds like serious drought: The drought has led to loss of arable land, livestock and drinking water, according to the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, the official Xinhua News Agency said late Sunday. …
We’ve got our own version of Ed Begley Jr. here in Albuquerque. My colleague Troy Simpson has been doing a video series of energy saving tips from from Al Zelicoff. This month’s: vampires.
There’s a war of words going on out West that is by turns hilarious and illustrative of the deep divisions regarding the use of water in our arid region. The trigger was a comment by Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman in response to Tim Barnett’s study suggestion Lake Mead had a 50-50 chance of going …
I stopped on the bike ride today, down by the river, to watch and listen to an enormous flight of sandhill cranes, headed north. I played a bit with the words to describe it (I often “write” while I’m on the bike), but I didn’t come up with anything quite as crisp as Laura Paskus’s …
Let us assume, for purpose of argument, that you are deeply concerned about the potential for humans’ impact on climate, but that you have some uncertainties about the reliability of the science that lies at the foundation of that concern. Today, you note, scientists tell us the planet is warming. But did they not argue …
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First Burmese pythons, now this: At the Aups market, the black truffle’s price has more than doubled over the past five years, to about €850 per kilo ($560 a pound). Farmers say production is down by 50-75 percent this winter season and they blame global warming, warning that if thermometers keep rising — as many …
Via Stoat, I see a nice story in USA Today about an interesting new analysis by some clever folk* on the history of the old “global cooling” canard: The supposed “global cooling” consensus among scientists in the 1970s — frequently offered by global-warming skeptics as proof that climatologists can’t make up their minds — is …