Big Oil and the Inevitable: Coming to Grips with Carbon and Climate Change
Readers are aware of two recent high profile announements from Shell and BP, calling for a price on carbon and an enlarged discussion of climate change globally. I recently watched a long lecture by...
View ArticleNew Video: What Climate Deniers Learned from Big Tobacco
Above, my newest “This is Not Cool” video focuses on the backstory behind “Merchants of Doubt”, the new documentary inspired by Naomi Oreskes’ and Eric Conway’s book of the same name. The centerpiece...
View ArticleUS Deep Freeze Stands out on Global Map
Andrew Freedman in Mashable: The eastern U.S., as well as parts of Canada, sticks out for having the most unusually cold conditions on the planet. In fact, much of the rest of North America — including...
View ArticleNaomi Oreskes on Senator Inhofe
Naomi Oreskes, author of Merchants of Doubt, on finding out that she was being attacked on the floor of the Senate by James Inhofe, the Strom Thurmond of climate denial. The movie based on Oreskes book...
View ArticleWillie Soon and the Pretend Harvard Connection
5 years ago, climate deniers staged a fake “scandal” by hacking in to the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, and selectively quoting stolen emails to a compliant and cooperative...
View ArticleKingsman: Cli-Fi meets Sci-Spy. Ultra Vi.
If you happen to be out this weekend looking to turn off for a couple hours, you could probably do worse. Something here to offend everyone, and make you kind of hate yourself for laughing out loud....
View ArticleDr. Ricky Rood: Why it’s so Freaking Cold
I was in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan interviewing Ricky Rood the other day – and that’s the question I asked him. Dr. Richard Rood is a former NASA Atmospheric Scientist now teaching at the...
View ArticleClimate Action’s Moral Majority
The stage is set for massive action on climate change – a clear majority of Americans now see climate as a moral issue. Below, a new poll by Reuters shows that two thirds of Americans believe their...
View ArticleThe Weekend Wonk: Angus Gillespie, Vice President for CO2, Shell
In the last few weeks, we’ve seen 2 astonishing announcements, one from the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell (RDS), and one from the Chairman of British Petroleum, acknowledging the problem of climate change,...
View Article30 Years of Warming with Dr. Ricky Rood
More from my chat this week with Dr. Richard Rood at the University of Michigan Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Science – soon to be renamed the Department of Climate and Space Sciences...
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