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VIDEO: What Does the Keystone XL Fight Mean for Environmentalism?
Posted by Climate Desk: Chris Mooney on April 25th, 2013
Climate Desk: The latest Climate Desk Live asked if pipeline opponents picked the wrong battle--and if that even matters.
If you`re a liberal or centrist, generally inclined to bash those "hippies" to the left of you--well, perhaps you should stop and think about it for a moment, and not resume bashing until you at least understand the best case activists can make for what they`re trying to achieve, and the particular strategy they`ve chosen.
That was one upshot of the latest Climate Desk Live briefing in...
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How Science Can Predict Where You Stand on Keystone XL
Posted by Climate Desk: Chris Mooney on April 17th, 2013
Climate Desk: On February 17, more than 40,000 climate change activists--many of them quite young--rallied in Washington, DC, to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, which will transport dirty tar sands oil from Canada across the heartland. The scornful response from media centrists was predictable. Joe Nocera of the New York Times, for one, quickly went on the attack. In a column titled "How Not to Fix Climate Change," he wrote that the strategy of activists "who have made the Keystone pipeline their line in the...
Why Greenland’s Melting Could Be the Biggest Climate Disaster of All
Posted by Climate Desk: Chris Mooney on January 24th, 2013
Climate Desk: As an expert on Greenland who has traveled 23 times to the massive, mile thick northern ice sheet, Box has shown an uncanny ability to predict major melts and breakoffs of Manhattan-sized ice chunks. A few years back, he foretold the release of a "4x Manhattans" piece of ice from Greenland`s Petermann Glacier, one so big that once afloat it was dubbed an "ice island." In a scientific paper published in February of 2012, Box further predicted "100 % melt area over the ice sheet" within another decade...
Is Climate Change the Sleeper Issue of 2012?
Posted by Climate Desk: Chris Mooney on October 3rd, 2012
Climate Desk: It was quite the messaging turnaround. In his September 6 acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, President Obama--whose reticence about so much as mentioning global warming has flummoxed environmental activists--used the subject to launch an unexpected attack on his opponent. "Climate change is not a hoax," the president declared. "More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They are a threat to our children`s future." In the after-speech gabfest, Politico...