Backseat driving

This is just a note to my fine readers that I will be taking up new digs with Eli Rabett and John Farley at Rabett Run . They've got th...

Interesting article from a man married to an anti-vaxxer . It reminds me a little about studies showing that a prejudiced people need intens...

Bishop Hill thinks  they've caught Nicholas Stern in a contradiction, saying one thing in 2009 and another in 2015. So let's take a ...

The last few months have seen  major bankruptcies among American coal companies  and the  near-elimination of the market value for the rest ...

Starts about 15 seconds in: "We can see it and we can feel it - hotter summers, rising sea levels, extreme weather events like str...

Somewhat Realistic: New Deal - one with less restrictions on Iran. This deal gets negotiated by countries other than the US. The US contin...

Rabett Run remembers David Schnare  and the currently-monikered Free Market Environmental Law Clinic.  At Legal Planet  (good lawblog btw), ...

I was going to write about Clinton's initial climate plan and still will, but I got distracted with a plagiarism proposal I want to sugg...

A puzzled Stoat asks  what's the big deal and what's new about revelations that Exxon picked up on climate change issues back in...

New Yorker's article on  the exposure of the Pacific Northwest to a massive quake and tsunami  is well worth the read. I used to live th...

A version of something I wrote on email struck a chord with some folks regarding the assertion "GMOs are safe": The term "s...

The encyclical emphasizes a moral element to the climate debate that the drier analyses miss. I  wrote previously  that a bishop flubb...

There may be some useful common thread to how educated people resist climate science for a while, maybe years, and then come around. And it...

Don't know how I missed this video, but definitely worth watching. I planned to write something the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, ...

An idea I had years ago got called out recently by Richard Louv, author of Last Child In the Woods. Louv was mad about a little girl being f...

Maxim Lott sees the slope of the line for the last 17 years as being virtually flat. I imagine that if he went for a run and came to a hi...

Haven't done a foreign policy post in a while, so here's three in one: 1. The list above shows messed-countries and messed-up outc...

UPDATE:  problem seems fixed, for now anyway. See comments. David Appel says Wood for Trees , a fun site for us amateurs to play with clim...

Not Toast Of The Not Knowing A little more on the lawsuit flop against John Mashey - Stoat  has   posts  (one of them with a brilliant ...

Good start though.

ScienceDaily  says a paper found that climate change has less impacts on biodiversity than land use has. My first thoughts were that it'...

I was at the party convention when it happened last weekend, but worked on campaign finance disclosure rather than divestment (disclosure go...

I don't have much to say beyond go  read how the $2m lawsuit against John Mashey by luckwarmists  didn't go well. It's a heartwa...

Hat tip:  Greg Laden Australia's do-nothing-on-climate government attempted to foist luckwarmist Lomborg on University of Western A...

I attended the San Francisco Commonwealth Club's Climate One meeting yesterday, on  "Climate Cognition" with George Lakoff, Ka...

A retired civil engineer in Ladakh  is detaining flowing water in high-elevation shaded areas in winter to create "glaciers" (real...

UPDATE:  a slightly (just barely)  contrary opinion on TPP from my go-to guy Paul Krugman . More like he doesn't think it's worth t...

Been working on this for a bit, making fair use of snips from the Star Wars trailers to highlight legislation to reform the California polit...

...if you measure by recovery time. Full recovery of the climate from anthropogenic GHG emissions will take  hundreds of thousands of years ...

I've been playing with video editors, so if anyone wants a shorter version of  Eli's clip below , here it is. I kept the intro but c...

... but not the warmest 60 months in a row , so climate change is a hoax. The warmest 60 months in a row happened in ancient history, from M...

Got into a conversation about this yesterday:  how much help does a vice-presidential candidate provide in winning that candidate's home...

Slate has a good article on Republican politicians  siding with America's foreign rivals  when Democrats run the executive branch, multi...

Un-American developed countries, that is. See here: Bloomberg reprinted  the above graph from a  2011 McKinsey report , and I added t...

I've argued for a while that we should  make use of analogizing sports statistics with climate/weather data , and  Media Matters shows i...

We know people have been killed by climate change. That's true both in the broader sense that every single weather event we experience i...

There have been repeated attempts to find a "Third Way" between doing something about climate change versus not doing much. They h...

After reading recently that  pits in the Mars polar CO2 ice caps were determined to be cyclical and not evidence of Martian climate change ,...

Patrick Moore, the  climate denialist  who  falsely claims to have helped found Greenpeace  (UPDATE: facts are unclear, see  David Lewis...