Posted in Global Warming, New York City, Politics on September 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The President of Iran is due to speak later this afternoon at Columbia University, just a few blocks away from where I study and work. I’ll have to keep this in mind and take an alternate route to campus for class tomorrow afternoon, in order to avoid the usual subway delays. On the one hand, [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Nature, Science and Technology on September 11, 2007 | No Comments »
In my last post I discussed briefly John Tierney’s column on global warming which appeared in this morning’s edition of the New York Times. After rereading it the article this afternoon, however, I think I was too easy on it. I just wonder how anyone who’s a serious journalist can write a column like this, [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Organizations, Science and Technology, Sociology on September 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Two articles to consider, one a month old and one more recent.
(1) An article in Scientific American from about a month ago reports that private insurers have started to label certain regions as being at increased risk due to environmental disturbance and disaster caused by global warming. Thus, homeowners and property owners in Florida and [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Nature, Politics, Science and Technology on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There’s an interesting article by McKenzie Funk’s article in the September 2007 edition of Harper’s* which discusses the ‘Coming Battle over the Melting North.’ Funk’s article helped me to realize how dull and unimaginative my thinking was about global warming. I had assumed that everyone who *believed* in the reality of global warming - i.e., [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Nature, New York City, Science and Technology on August 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A little break from doing the blow-by-blow from the ASA conference…
After last week’s tornado in Brooklyn, I figured it was only a matter of time before someone raised the question as to whether it was due to global warming. Read this recent short article from Wired magazine - and then read the comments, and despair [...]
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