Backseat driving

Ed Yong certainly and Keith Kloor possibly understand false balance in climate reporting:  the scientific mainstream and a few outliers sho...

It's not the usual lopsided intellectual battle we discuss here at Eli's.  This is  Michael Mann criticizing Nate Silver's some...

1.   AAUP proposes revisions of rules on research misconduct : The proposal defines research misconduct as "fabrication, falsificati...

In 2010, predicting a big recovery in sea ice nearing historical levels in 2011, and slow progress over 20-30 years to above normal levels:...

The headline above is the takeaway I get from the  "disclosures" by the Romney campaign  that just went up an hour or so ago.  Al...

See Eli's  previous post . Eli's right about ruling from the bench, as opposed to listening to the lawyers babble, ask some quest...

Whether fracking for gas really is a bridge to reduced greenhouse emissions depends on context - does gas replace coal, or not? That ...

Here's me  bloviating in February 2009 : Conservatives choose inflation as a test of whether the stimulus will be a failure I'...

Things Break beat me to the punch on this issue with a  much better post  that included some actual science-type material. It's pr...

Via John Mashey, there's a  blog post by Gareth  on yet another attempt by climate denialists to muddy the record on climate change, th...

Shell has a good, simple explanation of a planned carbon capture and sequestration facility in Alberta: So the good stuff first:  they...

Rolling Stone has  lays it on the line  about how Romney solved a fiscal crisis involving the parent Bain Company to his own Bain Capital -...

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: ...