not the best of news : we’re too selfish to stop global warming
Finally someone has come out and said it. We’re too selfish to make the sacrifices required to turn around global warming. Nobody wants to say this, because we want to hope that there is still time the naysayers and deniers and ignorant and indifferent– most of the world’s population, including some very rich adamant anti-warmists– …Read More
global warming is real, folks, and it’s us
according to the latest report of the International Panel on Climate Change :
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/key-findings-ipcc-report-climate-change-20392968
the climate change debate III
The skeptics fall into several categories. 1) scientists with legitimate questions about a very complex issue which is being whitewashed for ideological reasons. 2) contrarians who include public intellectuals like my esteemed Vanity Fair colleague Christopher Hitchens, who asked me over dinner one night two years ago if I thought global warming was really real, …Read More
the climate change debate continued
First of all, I don’t want to give the impression that I am knocking the scientists. Many of them are wonderful people, and I deeply appreciate the time they’ve given me, the conversations we’ve had, and the many things I’ve learned from them. It is understandable that some might want to overstate their certainty about …Read More
the climate change debate
Everybody and his mother has been sounding off about this, but I have a few important new points to add to the discourse. First of all, full disclosure, I have to say that I have been since l975 a firm believer in climate change and that human emissions are causing a greenhouse effect that is …Read More