Climate change: an attempt to get a signal out of the noise
Still needs sorting out
- NYRB 53-12 (13-07-06) Jim Hansen: The Threat to the Planet
- (rabett 09-07-06) How denialists argue
- (wp 28-05-06) Joel Achenbach: The Tempest.
As evidence mounts that humans are causing dangerous changes in Earth's climate, a handful of skeptics are providing some serious blowback.
- James' Empty Blog (Aug. 05): Climate sceptics place bets on world cooling down : Nature
- (G 28-07-05) US in plan to bypass Kyoto protocol
- Sierra Magazine, Jul/Aug 2005: Can Technology Save the Planet?Our opposable thumbs got us into this mess, and they can help get us out, says futurist and science fiction writer Bruce Sterling.
- The Observer | Advertisement feature | Observer commercial carbon trust
- (22-06-05) RealClimate: The Wall Street Journal vs. The Scientific Consensus
- (OBS 19-06-05) Henry Porter: Fiddling as the planet burns: There is nothing left to debate about climate change. It is happening and each of us must act.
- (OBS 19-06-05) Mark Townsend: New US move to spoil climate accord
- (May 2005) Stewart Brand: Environmental Heresies
The success of the environmental movement is driven by two powerful forces--romanticism and science--that are often in opposition. The romantics identify with natural systems; the scientists study natural systems. The romantics are moralistic, rebellious against the perceived dominant power, and combative against any who appear to stray from the true path. They hate to admit mistakes or change direction. The scientists are ethicalistic, rebellious against any perceived dominant paradigm, and combative against each other. For them, admitting mistakes is what science is.
- (NY 25-04-05) Elizabeth Kolbert: A Planetary Problem
- (NY 18-04-05) Elizabeth Kolbert: The Climate of Man, pt. 1 [printed Apr. 05]
- Economist.com | Climate change and politics
- (NY 03-01-05) Malcolm Gladwell reviews `Collapse' by Jared Diamond
- (G 06-01-05) Jared Diamond: Disasters waiting to happen
...it is not a question open for debate whether the collapses of past societies have modern parallels and offer any lessons to us. Instead, the real question is how many more countries will undergo them.
- (G 28-10-04) Bjorn Lomborg: First things first
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