For better or for worse, this spring has been the hot season to dedicate an entire magazine issue to climate change and the environment.
May’s issue of The Nation is no different. It features an article by James Hansen, Why We Can’t Wait, in which he lays out five basic recommendations for approaching the climate challenge.
The Nation issue is titled “Surviving Climate Change”. Meanwhile, Newsweek has written about “Learning to Live with Climate Change“.
That’s the ‘for worse’ part, though, because Newsweek carried an article by Richard Lindzen that is a classic piece of disinformation. See RealClimate’s post “Lindzen in Newsweek” for Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann’s list of Lindzen’s many seemingly willful errors. They end their piece pointing out that even Vanity Fair’s latest eco-issue lists Lindzen as an ‘environmental sinner’.
Now there’s a twist on the classic hot-or-not column!
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It seems like public awareness is growing and my friends tell me that this is good. In fact, some of them feel that it’s a cause to stop worrying because with more people getting concerned each day, surely we’ll step up to the plate and handle the problems if they become severe enough.
Personally, I don’t think so. The information has been around for years in the form of well written and reasoned books and magazines but the public uptake has been slow while the actual problems continue to accelerate and build force. I’ve written a piece on this at http://samadhisoft.com/2007/04/27/070427-friday-the-train-ride-to-hell/ which you and your readers might find interesting.
Keep up the good work. I follow your blog daily via RSS and have linked to a few stories I first found here. You are an execellent source of informaton in a world of confusing and conflicting data.