Sense and Nonsense

The Mindset of the Deniers

From Calamities of Nature

Those Who Deny Climate Change

. . . especially by pointing to current cold spells ("What global warming, dude?!), are morons.  And worse. 

Climate change brings about extreme changes in weather patterns at the same time it produces general warming trends.  See here. 

 

Horseshit

That's Elizabeth Kolbert's assessment in the current issue of The New Yorker of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's quick fixes for the climate, as outlined in their new book, Superfreakanomics.

Good lord. Save us from pseudo-thinkers of the Levitt-Dubner ilk. 

Maybe a Better Way of Looking at It

Our Goose is Cooked

Two recent newspaper articles reaffirm the fact that we've totally screwed up our climate.  

Sunday's Boston Globe reported on the dramatic decline of aspen trees in the Rocky Mountains.  (The article only glancingly refers to the Rockies' loss of millions of acres of lodgepole pines to the advance of pine beetles, also a result of climate change.)

Those of you who are snooty Easterners who have never set tender foot in the Rockies and thus don't give a damn about what is happening there: LISTEN UP!  Your own (inexplicably) preferred havens like Martha's Vineyard are also suffering severe tree losses because of climate change.  In MV's case, according to today's Globe,  the dying trees are oaks. 

The Republicans in the Senate may well succeed in blocking any legislation to slow down climate change. In that case, they'll succeed in making the whole country look like their own preferred places such as Arizona.  

Beware Scientist Hoaxsters

Square is good.

Republican Denial on Climate Change

Is this good? Or would it be better to have its head up its ass?

© Tom Toles

Adaptation

The real-estate industry adapts to global climate change:

Non Sequitur by Wiley

I'm Gonna Save My Energy

The staff at CQ posted the video below, with the following comment:

Obama Girl, that sexy siren from the election who was solely responsible for delivering Barack Obama the male vote, is back. Now she's promoting energy conservation in a catchy tune called 'Save Your Energy.' So fellas, it's time to ditch that Hummer and break out those compact fluorescent light bulbs.

Not Soon Enough

© Mike Luckovich