Check out the article by a
climate survivalist from the February 27, 2011 Washington Post. (I’m going to
go out on a limb and treat the article as if it’s not a satire or hoax, but
maybe the joke’s on me.) The author
describes how he’s buying solar panels and generators and laying in food and supplies
and putting extra locks on his doors and windows in anticipation of the coming
climate apocalypse....
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Intellectual pyrotechnics before 10 a.m. isn’t for
everyone, but I thought it was an excellent way to start this third day at the
IHEST summer school on science and public debate. Is there such a thing as the public? Well, think of God, said the morning’s first speaker.
Even if we permanently shut down the oil
wells in the Gulf and put a cap on carbon, do we know how to move forward in constructing
a sustainable energy future?
Reducing
emissions is an important thing to do, but arguments that we can address the
problems of local communities anywhere by
driving a Prius or purchasing offsets every time we get on an airplane are are
simply wrong.
Thanks to the theft and publication of years
worth of email from the Climate Research Unit (CRU), a major scientific center
devoted to climate science, we now have an interesting picture of the
at-times-questionable conduct of a number of top researchers in the field.
It is interesting that democracies seem
particularly unwilling to engage their publics in meaningful dialogue. They’ll
poll them, but not ask them to participate in fashioning a collective future.
Perhaps it is a failure of legal imagination.
The New York Times’ article of April 16, 2009,
“Third-World Stove Soot is Target in Climate Fight,” is a piece that makes you
want to throw up your hands in despair – why are the world’s poor invariably
targeted as being responsible for global warming?
The House of Representatives has passed a
massive climate change bill aimed at legislating a new, climate-friendly energy
supply into existence.... The bill’s champions assume that, in response to an
array of mandated carrots and sticks, nimble startup firms will be motivated to
develop new clean-energy technologies.... Unfortunately, a crucial question
remains embarrassingly unasked: Who is going to buy enough of these new
technologies to establish a market that's large enough to meet our carbon
reduction goals?
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