A Testy Affair

Posted by: Keith Kloor

What I like most about the folks at Real Climate is that they’ll engage their adversaries. And these exchanges reveal an important dimension to the climate debate.

So with that I recommend this seething caldron, where Gavin Schmidt and Chip Knappenberger go mano a mano over the latter’s economic assessment of the Waxman-Markey bill.

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Category: cap and trade, climate change

The Hansen Effect

Posted by: Keith Kloor

Imagine that: an actual debate on the merits of cap and trade versus a carbon tax breaks out in the blogosphere, courtesy of James Hansen.

That doesn’t hurt so bad, does it Joe?

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Category: James Hansen, Joe Romm, cap and trade, carbon tax, climate change

Sneeze On Me

Posted by: Keith Kloor

From pandemic panic to party mode–all in one week.


Category: pandemic, swine flu

Going in for the Kill

Posted by: Keith Kloor

The wolf-pack is tearing away at Jared Diamond. Opportunity knocks:

part of the reason…is to reclaim some of the ground among general readers lost to “experts” like Jared Diamond. With this series, StinkyJournalism.org and SavageMinds.org seek to capture that wider general audience for writings about anthropology.

If the first essay is any indication of what’s to come, good luck with that.

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Category: Anthropology, Jared Diamond