Articles by Coby Beck
Former musician, turned tree planter, turned software engineer. Same old story... I have been blogging about climate change since 2006 at A Few Things Ill Considered.
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Public divided over whether costly steps are needed
From the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA):
An international poll finds widespread agreement that climate change is a pressing problem. This majority, however, divides over whether the problem of global warming is urgent enough to require immediate, costly measures or whether more modest efforts are sufficient.
Read the rest at their website. One data point: 39 percent of Americans think global warming is an important threat, 46 percent think it is a critical threat, only 17 percent think it is not important at all.
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This Bertrand Russell quote seems relevant to today’s climate debates
This quote from Bertrand Russell just caught my eye:
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
I think the climate change deniers would do very well to keep this in mind.
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Search for ‘global warming’ to no avail
Check out a post from James Annan, who details how, out of 438 documents on Whitehouse.gov the contain the phrase "global warming," only a single one is returned when using the Whitehouse.gov search engine.
Color me stupefied. It's almost like they are trying to hide something. On purpose even. Who'da thunk it?
[Update] As most of you probably know, this may be one of those "don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence" moments. (see more detailed update here).I'd have to say that in analyzing the current Whitehouse policy on just about anything, figuring out which it is, malice or incompetence, is a black art.
Of course, the end result is one and the same, from Katrina to Iraq to fiscal policies to the environment to homeland security to international diplomacy to...
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In case you thought Sundays were lazy!
Be sure to check out this week's compilation of global warming news, brought to you by H. E. Taylor each week via A Few Things Ill Considered. It is quite comprehensive, so if 300+ links intimidate you, here are a few highlights:
