Grist | Topics | 8 Results

RESULTS		Results 1 – 8 of 8
Headline	Author	Published	Section
Green skies are the new black Two scientists offer a grim preview of where humanity is headed	David Roberts	29 May 2008	Gristmill
Feel like you're just not depressed enough today? Read the last bit of this Dot Earth post: During a break, I asked [Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Dr. F. Sherwood] Rowland two quick questions. The first: Given the nature of the climate and energy challenges, what is his best guess for the peak concentration of carbon dioxide? ... His answer? '1,000 parts per million,' he said. My second question was, what will that look like? 'I have no idea,' D ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Heating heaven Early appearances of climate change in popular literature	Erik Hoffner	28 May 2008	Gristmill
Last week, I picked up a copy of the newly reissued 1971 Ursula Le Guin classic The Lathe of Heaven, which takes place in dystopic, post-collapse Portland, Ore., circa 2002 or so. It's typical brilliance from Le Guin, of whom I can't read enough, but I was interested to see that the novel begins by describing Mt. Hood devoid of snow due to the greenhouse effect. The climate is entirely different from that of the 1960s, with blue skies a thing of the past and rainfall pa ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts, green living, Portland (all these topics)

Alan Greenspan is very overrated: Part II Greenspan on climate change	Joseph Romm	22 Sep 2007	Gristmill
If you thought Greenspan was confused about energy, his discussion of global warming in The Age of Turbulence is downright stupefying. He opens well (p. 454): There can be very little doubt that global warming is real and man-made. But the next sentence is (I kid you not): We may have to rename Glacier National Park when its glaciers disappear, in what now looks to be 2030, according to park scientists. That's what all the fuss is about -- we'll have to r ...
Topics: books, carbon trading, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Debunking Bjørn Lomborg: Part III Lomborg's a real Nowhere Man	Joseph Romm	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
In Cool It, Lomborg writes about global warming -- but the globe he is writing about certainly isn't Earth. We've already seen in Parts I and II that on Planet Lomborg, polar bears can evolve backwards and the ice sheets can't suffer rapid ice loss (as they are already doing on Earth). On Planet Lomborg, the carbon cycle has no amplifying feedbacks -- even though these are central to why warming on Earth will be worse than the IPCC projects. I couldn't even find the ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Debunking Bjorn Lomborg: Part I The great polar bear irony	Joseph Romm	13 Sep 2007	Gristmill
For debunkers, Lomborg's work is a target-rich environment. There is even a Lomborg-errors website, where a Danish biologist catalogs Lomborg's mistakes and 'attempts to document his dishonesty.' Lomborg's latest work of disinformation, Cool It, isn't out yet in Europe to be debunked, so I'll fill the gap for now. I will start with polar bears for two reasons. First, the nonironic reason: Lomborg starts his book with a chapter on polar bears, presumably because ...
Topics: Arctic, books, climate, climate change impacts, polar bears, wildlife (all these topics)

Shameless self-promotion Friday Writing about Mooney, writing about storms	Kate Sheppard	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I reviewed Chris Mooney's new book, Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming, for The American Prospect, and it's up today. Gristmiller Kit Stolz reviewed it here a while ago, but uh, mine is ... longer. Anyway, the book is good, though not the galvanizing polemic that made his first book, The Republican War on Science, a bestseller. But Mooney's got quite the knack for telling the back story on how science and politics became friends w ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts, severe weather, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Summer reading list Pick-me-up books needed	Adam Browning	30 May 2007	Gristmill
I was at a wedding last week, on the beach. Waves! Friends! Tecates! I was finally starting to unwind. And then I did something very bad. I picked up Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Holy moly. Ever wonder what the world would look like should we reach the global warming tipping point? Or what peak oil in full effect might mean for you and yours? Wonder no longer. A grimmer, more terrifying dystopian tale I have never read. Read it and weep. ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Hostile Climate On Bjorn Lomborg and climate change	Stephen H. Schneider	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Bjorn Lomborg's chapter on global climate change is a clever polemic; it seems like a sober and well-researched presentation of balanced information, whereas in fact it makes use of selective inattention to inconvenient literature and overemphasis of work that supports his lopsided views. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and other honest assessments don't have the luxury of using such tac ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics)

Stories About: books AND climate AND climate change impacts