Backseat driving

Raymond Pierrehumbert  scores the top slot on Slate  over Paul Ryan's climate denialism and general simplistic view on climate and the...

This information on  environmental stupidity in the Wall Street Journal editorial pages since 1976  should be expanded into a smartphone ap...

Three things I learned listening to Chris Mooney's  interview of Joe Romm about rhetoric : 1.  It's pronounced "Rome"...

At Monday's Water District meeting, we revised our greenhouse gas/climate change policies.  The prior policy was to reduce emissions ...

A short non-climate post here.  I've followed the outdoor-cats-are-killers issue for some years now, and as a local conservationist I...

Hi Mom (and thanks for letting me post this reply), Yes, I am familiar with the term "watermelon" as applied to environmentalis...

A somewhat depressing  article in the NY Times  about wasted money being spent on the waste gas HFC-23, so much so that it's been produc...

There may have been some confusion about what Romney actually said about culture and economic success, so I thought I would document it: ...

The California Public Utilities Commission  announced recently  that our three major private utilities had already hit the legally-required...

Obama and the Senate Democrats are playing dangerous games , hopefully with care, with Europe's attempt to reduce carbon emissions from...

On the good news front, an  excellent post from David Roberts  on the amount of emissions the US has cut in recent years.  Go read.   Joe R...

1.   Me from Aug. 31 , responding to William's request for my prescience on Syria: I'm clearly not too prescient about civil insu...

I'm very glad to see this: More info  at the UCAR website . I've been arguing for  this type of analogy for years .  There are...

Above is from  George Will of all people , acknowledging that juvenile criminal defendants have different brains and different levels of cu...

I wish I always generated an economic return of $3 million per page. The above is gross oversimplification and credit-hogging that should...

If you asked a scientifically advanced space alien whether current heat waves are worsened by our greenhouse gas emissions, it might  take ...

UPDATE :  per the comments, the change was a policy change and  not a new Executive Order as it was originally reported .  Not sure that ch...

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo  asks : Can someone tell me when the Mitt/Bain Downfall video gets posted on Youtube?  Well, okay ...

I'm planning to write a post on how a revenue neutral carbon tax might, just might, have a shot in the US in the medium term.  First th...

On May 24th, I had the opportunity to speak on behalf of the Santa Clara Valley Water District at the  Sustainable Silicon Valley 's an...