facing the fire

So, just read the "News and Views" piece in Nature Geoscience (Vol.1, (644), 2008; doi:10.1038/ngeo326) called "Climate chang...

Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip from Leo Murray. Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo . I saw this poste...

I read a fair number of climate-related blogs. One of these days I'll try to get some kind of "blog roll" going on the side of...

This is outrageous. The Bush administration is trying to introduce some kind of executive rule that would allow federal agencies to convenie...

Well, in place of posting some hasty response to a story or new paper, I thought I'd point out that there's way more climate-related...

A correction, I have read the Kump & Pollard paper [ Amplification of Cretaceous Warmth by Biological Cloud Feedbacks -- Kump and Pollar...

Just read a quick blurb in Nature [ link ] that kind of rankled me. The writer, David Beerling, worries about the fidelity of biological pro...

There has been quite a lot of press coverage of a new paper in PNAS (doi:10.1073/pnas.0709472105) by Deutsch et al. about how global warming...

Today I read an article posted on Science Daily ( Aerodynamic Truck Trailer Cuts Fuel And Emissions By Up To 15 Percent ) that made me kind ...

I just wanted to note a rash of recent deaths of prominent scientists. Arthur C. Clarke, writer and futurist, died at 90 years old on 19 Mar...

Obama has backed out of the debate scheduled for next week, and McCain and Clinton were non-committal. So organizers are trying to schedule ...

I just saw a blurb in Science about the World Science Festival , which is apparently an attempt by Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe) and o...

This is off-topic, but I just struck myself with a couple of simple ideas related to the Amazon Kindle. I'm sure you know, but just in c...

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I found the included video from a lecture by Naomi Oreskes on Deltoid . You'll remember Oreskes from her Science article a while back in...

An e-mail I received today: Environmental Research Letters (ERL) has just released the Best of 2007, a mixture of Perspectives and Letters t...

I think this is an important issue, not just in terms of sex bias, but that the whole peer-review process could probably be improved. This s...

This guy on YouTube has spelled out a very nice approach to how "skeptics" should look at the possibility of a changing climate.

If time permits, which is a big if right now, I will try to participate in blog action day.

I've been sitting on the idea for this post for almost a week, but haven't had a chance to work it up. Since it doesn't look lik...