While I am on (70%) vacation, it seems like a good time to repost or excerpt some of the other terrific climate material on the blogosphere.
So I am soliciting suggestions for such articles. You can suggest your own post. I can’t guarantee I will reprint everything. And I certainly prefer things from blogs that don’t already have high readership, say, blogs with web sites that rank greater than 100,000 on Alexa.
Previous in TP Climate Progress
Might be interesting…
http://rabett.blogspot.com/2009/07/best-of-worst-john-mashey-asks-maybe.html
http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-on-that-enso-nonsense.html
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/graph-jam/
http://ourchangingclimate.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/the-nipcc-report/
http://chriscolose.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/lindzen-on-climate-feedback/
MY SUGGESTION FOR A GUEST POST
I have been envious of the loyal fans of Mudflats.net (of which I am one), because they have random fun Mudpuppy meetups, all over the country! Nobody has taken my offer to host a Climate Progress barbecue seriously, at all *sob*.
But never mind! This untenable situation is about to be rectified. I am visiting family in Wellfleet this week, and on Wednesday, plan to have lunch with two here-to-fore unmet (except virtually) fellow Climate Progress readers, Susan and Nancy!!! Yes! We (me, Significant Other, and Doc/paterfamilias) will be taking the ferry from Provincetown to Boston (at great expense, but well worth it), to meet them for a lunch at a yet-to-be-determined restaurant at noon, maybe Cornucopia, overlooking the harbour, where we will raise a glass, or several, to you Joe Romm, our mentor and fearless leader…an occasion which we will diligently photograph – and then demand you upload to your blog in our guest post.
Of course the participants at such an important inaugural event deserve a special designation. One suggestion courtesy of RPauli was the “Molly McGuires” which should at the very least be reserved for future special awards to coal-industry subversives…and then I thought perhaps “The Plant-Feeders’ Society” with the slogan, “CO2 – good for plants and good for you!”
These notions were eclipsed by Steve the Plumber, who in addition to possessing arcane plumbing terms for esoteric valves, is also a bit of a philosopher who knows Latin. Romm ‘n’ Legions was his moniker suggestion. There are all sorts of intriguing allusions to the Roman Empire to be explored, doom by hubris, of course – and how convenient and felicitous that you have obliged us by having the perfect sort of surname for such alliterative associations. Thanks Joe, you never disappoint!
It’s hard to escape the possibilities for a separate category, the Roamin’ Legions, those who surreptitiously disrupt townhall teabagging meetings to demand action on climate change. Next we need graphics, suggestions welcome. Perhaps we could dispense little gladiator figurines, with sword and shield, as the member premium?
Any readers in the area are welcome to join us! Once we figure out the restaurant I’ll post another comment – then, we’ll be easy to locate, as everyone will bring laptops and be wearing pajamas.
Well, maybe being Boston, that will be true of all the patrons? Never mind, just ask for the Romm ‘n’ Legions table.
So, any other Legionayers in the Boston area who want to pal around with fellow Global Warming Hoaxers, feel free! The more the merrier.
Recently I have been looking into the cultural side of climate change action rather than the primary energy side. You buy oil and petrol (gasoline) for your motor vehicles and natural gas to heat your home and cook and electricity for all you things that need electricity but its the other side of the equation that matters most.
Meat Eating for example get me interested when I heard about the cost of meat in carbon terms as well as the planetary impact. People are eating more meat globally and its a issue. First off is Beef which uses around 43,000 L/Kg or 11,000 Gallons(US)/Kg (2.2 Ibs)and hence its a problem. Cattle emit methane too and eat a lot of high protein for fast growth. Deforestation is an issue with food growth and cattle grazing.
It might be said that beef ought to be banned globally and replaced by pork chicken.
Ah sorry but I had also hoped to mention water. On the Daily Show recently:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-july-16-2009/robert-glennon
The book UNQUENCHABLE and water being finite and the USA is approaching a crisis point. Global Warming affects it and it global warming. Some renewable energy production requires water and salination plants are expensive and leave behind brine.
It everything conspiring againt us?
Hi,
Though you may want to take a look at the blog of my Dean here at Duke’s Nicholas School. Pretyt good stuff such as this:
http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/fencesitter-bayh
Dan
i feel a little uncomfortable doing so, but i am recommending an article on my own blog, as it does give a rare and brilliant insight of what happens when thinkthans start accepting corporate money.
In Holland, there’s a foundation which was receiving money from Pfizer, but due to a number of reasons the funding ended. People started talking about things which usually stay behind the scenes.
http://jules-klimaat.blogspot.com/2009/08/edmund-burke-foundation-vs-big-pharma.html
I think understanding the events happening in that small Burke Foundation help us to understand what’s going on in the thinkthanks where climate skeptics are gathered.
Blog suggestion: “All “green power” schemes in Australia rendered ineffective by their national cap and trade scheme – given this observed effect in Oz, is there anything in Waxman-Markey that needs revising?”
All I know: ABC, the publicly funded radio network of Australia, carried a story on last Friday which reported that the national consumer watchdog agency had just required all suppliers of “green power” in Australia to tone down their advertising. For example, you can’t now advertise “green power” in Oz by saying “you have the power to make a difference”, because, under the Oz cap and trade plan, it is not possible for a voluntary choice like this to have any effect on total national emissions, I’m not clear exactly why. Its something to do with the allocation of the permits. Apparently, any voluntary “green power” that is sold ends up making it possible for more CO2 to be emitted, thus canceling the effect of the voluntary programs. Abstract and audio file of the show:
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/200908/s2648643.htm
One company changed their campaign from the “you have the power to make a difference”, to “you have the power to choose”, i.e. you can choose to buy something that can’t make a difference, if you are duh, a moron. Is there anything in Waxman-Markey that needs revising?
Majora Carter, Auden Schendler, Paul Hawken, or someone else at the forefront of building a sustainable future. People like them or another architect of the system that needs to take over from this existing one.
I especially like Majora Carter for her advanced environmental justice perspective. It needs to be remembered that the same fossil fuels which ruin the entire planet’s future have already been devastating communities in the South Bronx, Appalachia, and the Navajo reservations (to say nothing of the Niger Delta, the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon, and others) for years. We’re not just passing cost onto our children, but our contemporaries.
Rather than a specific suggestion, why not setup a mechanism for bringing in guest postings? You have posted them sporadically now and then. Why not have them on a regular basis? Posted on Sundays?
You might find the blog where I archive my North East Public Radio commentaries helpful. There are a lot of climate pieces there. Might I suggest “The Plague of Indifference” from a few weeks ago.
thank you for your important work.
Steven A. Leibo Ph.D.
Professor of International History & Politics
Russell Sage College
International Affairs Commentator
WAMC Northeast Public Radio
District Manager Upstate New York & Vermont
The Climate Project
Leibo’s World Watch Blog http://sagethoughts.wordpress.com/
Steven A. Leibo Ph.D.
Professor of Int
The blog Leibo’s World Watch http://sagethoughts.wordpress.com/ that
I use for my WAMC Northeast Public Radio commentaries has a lot of climate pieces on it. Might I suggest “The Plague of Indifference” from
last month.
Steven A. Leibo
Dessler’s post on the IPCC being a conservative estimate:
http://www.grist.org/article/Why-you-should-believe-the-IPCC-part-134992653
Why large future warming is very likely:
http://www.grist.org/article/The-third-degree
An enlightening discussion on skeptism vs denialism:
http://chriscolose.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/will-the-real-skeptics-please-stand-up/
The following two recent pieces by journalist Gwynne Dyer (http://www.gwynnedyer.com/) may be of interest to ClimateProgress readers:
“Climate Change: Two Cheers for Two Degrees” (http://www.gwynnedyer.com/articles/Gwynne%20Dyer%20article_%20%20Climate%20Change%20-%20Two%20Cheers.txt)
“Obama’s Emission Cuts: Pragmatic Suicide” (http://www.gwynnedyer.com/articles/Gwynne%20Dyer%20article_%20%20US%20Climate%20and%20Pragmatism.txt
I post one on Earth Day called The Death of Literature that I thought was pretty good. It’s a call to artists to join this fight, to bring creativity and passion to the climate debate.
http://one-blue-marble.com/blog/2009/04/22/the-death-of-literature/
Now I’m going to log out, and come back as someone else, and nominate that op/ed again. :-) How typically blowing-my-own-hornish!
I’m also a big fan of Greenfyre, like many here, I suspect.
http://greenfyre.wordpress.com/
About water.
Or rather, the shortage thereof.
action start http://qaiglobalinstitute.com http://www.physorg.com http://gettheledout.org http://www.cs.man.ac.uk
I would like to propose the following as a guest Blog entry:
http://samadhisoft.com/eden-lost/
It is my Blog and this is one of my best pieces, I believe.
Cheers!
I have a small blog that is developing material to help readers understand some of the new technical and accounting ideas that are being formulated in response to climate change. Hope this may be of interest: http://www.petrolog.typepad.com/climate_change/
Joe — looking to combine CSTP with water desalinization with some biochar/terra preta with agricultural production thrown into the mix? Perhaps: http://getenergysmartnow.com/2008/12/09/energy-cool-a-powerful-renewable-vision-reprise/
There is much talk going on of geo-engineering, why not take a look & consider basic principles: http://getenergysmartnow.com/2008/02/28/geoengineering-basic-principles-some-thoughts-some-questions/
Now, you’ve not done much (that I recall) re rail. BruceMcF is a great writer / thinking on rail issues and linkages into broader picture. As an example, a recent piece of his: http://midnight-populist.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-hooverism-versus-high-speed-rail.html
I am already impressed with some of the blogs getting mentioned … good one! which underscores the conundrum your challenge presents; I want to know about the blogs that I don’t know about ;-)
More specifically, what an opportunity to help undermine the North American parochialism that we all wind up participating in, however inadvertently. We hear far too little on this global issue from the bulk of the people being affected by it.
There are a number of excellent European blogs worth bringing to peoples attention, and how about the rest of the world? How about specifically inviting blogs from Asia, Africa, etc to introduce themselves with a contribution? I’d love a series of posts that gave us a more local perspective from Helsinki to Nairobi, Aden, Xian and Port Moresby.
Well, if everyone is suggesting his/her own blog, here’s mine. It’s mainly a blog about the role of software engineering in climate science, but I’m particularly proud of some recent posts where I was exploring what research there is from psychology and sociology that helps us get inside the heads of the denialists:
The role of cultural cognition in climate denialism:
http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=730
and how the dunning-kruger effect works:
http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=576
Greenfyre have a good idea, there are many blogs in Europe and other parts of the world that wrights in their native language… however they are harder to find and much harder to understand :)
And maybe a link to blogs in other languages miss… the point?
UPDATE:
Not that there has been any interest other than the original conspirators, but the Romm ‘n’ Legions have settled on a restaurant, at 12:30 tomorrow, called Aura. It’s restaurant week in Boston so we are expecting a promotional gourmet lunch at a bargain price.
The only problem is that Nancy, who was so nice to make the reservation, claims to be easily identifiable in her BABYDOLL’s! Yikes! I haven’t heard that term in decades so it took a minute to register – and besides, the whole pajama blogger from the parents’ basement was just a Sarah Palin joke!
So in desperation I hurtled from shop to shop (there are only 6!) in bustling downtown Wellfleet this afternoon in frantic search for pajamas. And I found some!
Pictures tomorrow…
Here are a couple of climate related sites that someone might wish to add to a roll call of non-US blogs:
http://china-environmental-news.blogspot.com/. I don’t know where the authors reside, but they seem to be generating some interesting material.
http://www.sindark.com/. A very well presented and thoughtful website from Canada.
It is only my opinion, I do feel there are simply too many blogs and too many well intentioned people (both believers and some sceptics) expending time and a great deal of effort preparing material about climate change and related topics. I hope we will start to see some kind of shake out / rationalisation with sites and writers teaming up to focus on more specific areas of the issue. In this regard, any initiative that encourages postings by guests has to be welcomed.
robin,
SECOND.
Lots of top quality posts, podcasts, at
http://beyondzeroemissions.org/
and some of the usual supsects
http://tamino.wordpress.com/
http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/
the rabett
Dan K wrote: “Though you may want to take a look at the blog of my Dean here at Duke’s Nicholas School. Pretty good stuff such as this…”
It is an excellent blog. However, Dr. Chameides will be on vacation until the 18th. That covers much if not all of the period when guest blogs will be needed.
At the risk of self-promotion, John Mashey has endorsed in other contexts this animated illustration of a comment of his originally made at DotEarth:
“It Hasn’t Warmed Since 1998″
Ok, this could be fun!
http://rabett.blogspot.com/2009/08/this-is-gonna-be-fun-notice-flows-into.html
this one with your comments would be interesting…
Nuclear
http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/08/13/wind-and-carbon-emissions-peter-lang-responds/
I wrote a recent post with a different take on the NAM report discussing loss of manufacturing jobs if ACES passes. My perspective is that coal dependent states need to see the writing on the wall- higher energy prices for coal power attributable to a myriad of regulatory programs. Recommendation- diversify their portfolio.
Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/kufhd4
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