Timelapse of Ice at MountainFilm on Tour Mill Valley 2012
Installation Art of Melting Ice at 142 Throckmorton for MountainFilm on Tour Mill Valley. December 2012. Installation and Timelapse by Carter Brooks. carterbrooks.com
… his misstatements are easily checked …
Quote of the Day — 1 July 2011
Forbes, which regularly publishes biased, misleading, and distorted opinion pieces on climate issues, has just published a remarkable one by Patrick Michaels. Michaels is well known for his regular misleading statements about climate. And while his statements are mostly worth ignoring, this one contains a particularly remarkable combination of errors and falsehoods. He accuses a variety of other people (including Justin Gillis of the New York Times) of misrepresenting data on food production and climate risks while simultaneously doing exactly that.
In this case, his misstatements are easily checked (though not, apparently, by Forbes fact-checkers) by actually looking up the real data on world food production. Here are Michaels’ most grossly misleading or simply false statements:
— Peter Glieck
— Misuse of Food and Climate Data at Forbes”
— Huffpost Green
… recalcitrance is dangerous …
Quote of the Day — 16 May 2011
Seizing on inevitable points of uncertainty in something as complex as climate science, and on misreported pseudo-scandals among a few scientists, Republican members of Congress, presidential candidates and other leaders pretend that the dangers of climate change are hypothetical and unproven and the causes uncertain.
Not so, says the National Research Council. “Although the scientific process is always open to new ideas and results, the fundamental causes and consequences of climate change have been established by many years of scientific research, are supported by many different lines of evidence, and have stood firm in the face of careful examination, repeated testing, and the rigorous evaluation of alternative theories and explanation.”
Climate-change deniers, in other words, are willfully ignorant, lost in wishful thinking, cynical or some combination of the three. And their recalcitrance is dangerous, the report makes clear, because the longer the nation waits to respond to climate change, the more catastrophic the planetary damage is likely to be — and the more drastic the needed response.
“Climate change denial becomes harder to justify“
Washtington Post Editorial Board
15 May 2011
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climate-change-denial-becomes-harder-to-justify/2011/05/13/AF44QQ4G_story.html
www.washingtonpost.com
… silent today to recall the lives …
Quote of the Day — 20 April 2011
” … I’m letting Dot Earth lie silent today to recall the lives of the 11 workers who died on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico one year ago. There is much to say about the full price of our existing energy menu, but also the steep price paid by the 2 billion or so people who live in parts of the world that lack any reasonable energy choices. There is much to say about mistakes of the past, culpability for the Deepwater calamity and energy imperatives for the future. But that can wait a bit…. “
— Andrew Revkin
— “A Silent Bell for 11 Who are Gone“
— Dot Earth Blog, New York Times
dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/a-silent-bell-for-11-who-are-gone
dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com
… you want oil, gas and coal …
Quote of the Day — 18 April 2011
… [Chevron CEO Joh] Watson says Americans can accomplish a great deal with “affordable conservation.” And “a wealthy economy,” he adds, “is better able to deal with the costs of greenhouse gas abatement than a poor economy.” Since “large numbers” of countries are “unlikely to take aggressive action on greenhouse gas emissions,” the “U.S. is going to have to decide, just as California is going to have to decide, if they want to go it alone. . . . Are they willing to place the burden on our economy and our consumers, at the expense of jobs?”
…”What I see are people who want affordable energy,” says Mr. Watson. “They want strong environmental standards—they want a lot of things—but first and foremost they want affordable energy. And if you want affordable energy, you want oil, gas and coal.”
— John Watson, CEO of Chevron
— as quoted by Kimberley A. Strassell
— “Oil Without Apologies“
— The Wall Street Journal
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704013604576248881417246502.html
online.wsj.com
… a single joint contains …
Quote of the Day — 13 April 2011
… a single joint contains the equivalent of roughly two pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, the equivalent of running a 100-watt bulb for about 30 hours on the California grid.
“Current indoor cannabis production and distribution practices result in prodigious energy use, costs, and greenhouse-gas pollution,” Dr. [Evan] Mills wrote. “The hidden growth of electricity demand in this sector confounds energy forecasts and obscures savings from energy efficiency programs and policies.” …
— John Collins Rudolf
— “Marijuana Growing Gobbles Electricity, Study Finds“
— Green Blog, New York Times
green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/marijuana-growing-gobbles-electricity-study-finds
green.blogs.nytimes.com
… shale gas undercuts the logic …
Quote of the Day — 12 April 2011
“… The large GHG footprint of shale gas undercuts the logic of its use as a bridging fuel over coming decades, if the goal is to reduce global warming, …”
— Cornell Prof. Robert Howarth
thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/155101-report-gas-from-fracking-worse-than-coal-on-climate
thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/
… the joke is on the human race …
Quote of the Day — 5 April 2011
“… what we had, instead of high seriousness, was a farce: a supposedly crucial hearing stacked with people who had no business being there and instant ostracism for a climate skeptic who was actually willing to change his mind in the face of evidence. As I said, no surprise: as Upton Sinclair pointed out long ago, it’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
But it’s terrifying to realize that this kind of cynical careerism — for that’s what it is — has probably ensured that we won’t do anything about climate change until catastrophe is already upon us.
So on second thought, I was wrong when I said that the joke was on the G.O.P.; actually, the joke is on the human race.”
— Paul Krugman
— “The Truth, Still Inconvenient“
— New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/opinion/04krugman.html
www.nytimes.com
