Saturday, April 25, 2015

Climate divestment applies the smack-down theory of political change

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The offensively-named but useful  "bitch slap" theory of politics  helps explain demonstrations of political strength that may mak...

Bleg: foreigners, especially Indians or Chinese, arguing their countries should do nothing on climate because of American emissions

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Bit of an experiment. I'm interested in internal climate policy debates in other countries where someone prominent takes the same positi...

Random impressions following the Obama's move on climate

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I've yet to see an in-depth analysis of what they're proposing. I'm skimming the  600 pages of the proposed rule , but it's...
Friday, April 24, 2015

My reaction to Gov. Tomblin on coal not quite what he would want

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The  governor of West Virginia : These proposals appear to realize some of our worst fears....based on our initial review of these rules,...

On June 3, pricing carbon becomes a more conservative option than a status quo

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All the kids are waiting to see exactly what Obama's going to do on Monday to regulate existing power plant CO2 emissions. The  hope is ...

CIA should hack Chinese trade secrets and post them to Wikileaks

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Bay Area Local:  the good, bad, and ugly in Santa Clara County elections, and an open thread

Bay Area Local: the good, bad, and ugly in Santa Clara County elections, and an open thread

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Haven't done a Bay Area Local post in a while, and thought I'd also make it an open thread for any comment. Here in Santa Clara Co...

Second-highest April temps ever, says GISS

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Data  here . Top was 2010, but that was an El Nino year, and we're not quite there yet.

The invisible modifier and another fine mess in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse

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There's a philosophical significance to the recent papers suggesting WAIS collapse is now unstoppable over the course of 200-900 years. ...

Stanford University to divest from coal

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Big news for the climate divestment movement:  Stanford is  getting out of coal . While getting out of oil and maybe even natural gas would ...

You can feel the National Climate Assessment in your bones

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Blog long enough and you can just repeat yourself. The  Third Climate Assessment  is telling us something we already know, that the climate ...

Peering at Supreme Court entrails

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Everyone says  the recent Clean Air Act victory in the Supremes was a 'rare EPA success' and an equally rare defeat to the US Chambe...

News: Republican congressman accepts heliocentrism

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Or something like that. Yes, this is newsworthy for a Republican political leader. I suppose I should just be happy and cut the snark, b...

Predictions test

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I'm a little delayed on this, but  the Keystone decision probably won't happen  until after November elections. In that case we'...

Science incompetence doesn't bother me

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William decided not to waste making a comment when he could  write a post instead speculating on why the denialati do what they do , and I...

His nudges are somewhat forceful, could get worse

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Like everyone else I'm trying to figure out what's going on in Putin's head. He assembles the military force to conduct an...

CNBC covering the carbon bubble

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For your TeeVee entertainment. Ran across this while visiting my local Charles Schwab office, two days after I was speaking at a panel spons...

Muddled view of Eich on ice

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TPM has a nuanced-to-muddled  view on Brendan Eich, the Mozilla exec promoted to CEO last year who had in 2008 contributed $1000 to the last...

Bozo the Clown could be novel, maybe

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Eli's got the goods . I finally caught up on  Mann's points to dismiss Steyn's counterclaims  and  Steyn's response  - haven...

A total of two decent articles on the military situation in the Ukraine

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You wouldn't think it would be so hard to write something that goes beyond book reports from wikipedia on the military forces, but I hav...