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In a world where we need reliable power to continue to do work and where we obviously need to take action to make that power cleaner, I fail to understand why climate activists like McKibben are so fearful of nuclear energy. He fails my test of seriousness about climate change.[read more]

If you think things are bad, listen to a group of climate scientists talk about geoengineering—literally hacking the planet. I had the pleasure of attending the Asimolar geoengineering conference last March and, while there, had the distinct pleasure of spending some time with Steve Schneider. Even among a group of some of the world’s...[read more]

Via Treehugger, a ten minute interview by Revkin of McKibben. (I think they talk past each other a bit without noticing. Revkin injects a bit of Pielkeism in there and I don't know if McKibben even notices.) But McKibben has come to the same place in the last year or so that many of us have. Our future is down to difficult vs impossible...[read more]

Andy Revkin has posted a piece over on DotEarth that I highly recommend, as much for the reader comments as for the main post itself. The piece is, ‘Shrinking’ the Climate Problem, and it includes a “post card” of from Renee Lertzman about the psychoanalytical work being done regarding how we react to the topic of climate change. Andy...[read more]

By Alex Trembath. Cross-posted at Energetics. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, President Obama addressed the failed climate/energy attempt of this summer, promising to move forward with a reinvigorated agenda in 2011. However, any such action will likely bear little resemblance to previous attempts. Mr. Obama conceded that "we...[read more]

Andrew Revkin's well-regarded Dot Earth blog has moved to the Opinion page, now that he has moved on from his staff position at the New York Times. As Curtis Brainerd notes at the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), Revkin "has expressed a desire to move even farther beyond the constraints of traditional news reporting." To kick off the "...[read more]

Memo to NY Times:  TV weathermen are not climate experts. In fact, Dr. Judith Curry, Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech explained to me a few years ago: Meteorologists are not required to take a course in climate change, this is not part of the NOAA/NWS [National Oceanic and Atmospheric...[read more]

In the video below, Revkin offers a refreshingly pragmatic assessment of climate change in the context of the broader arc of global development: "The energy challenge is not just about carbon dioxide. The energy challenge we face right now on this planet includes the two billion people on this planet right now, who, if they have...[read more]

File this under “Self-fulfilling prophecy.” Below is an excerpt from the Friday Greenwire story (subs. req’d), “Treaty, regs won’t solve warming problems, former NYT reporter warns.”  If the quotes are inaccurate or incomplete, the former lead climate reporter for the paper of record can clarify and/or expand upon his remarks here...[read more]

Jamais Cascio has made it official… “there’s a considerable amount of methane (CH4) coming from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, where it had been trapped under the permafrost. There’s as much coming out from one small section of the Arctic ocean as from all the rest of the oceans combined. This is officially Not Good.” Scientists who...[read more]

Covering the protest march at the climate talks in Copenhagen (credit: Andrew Revkin) Former New York Times science writer Andrew Revkin discusses advocating for reality, slow-drip problems and a looming murk in the media’s coverage of climate change with ecopolitology’s Dave Levitan. [Our ongoing series “Communicating Climate Change...[read more]

Something like 40,000 and 100,000 people assembled in Copenhagen and marched the six kilometers to the Bella Center to demand climate justice. And, yet, the world’s largest single* climate change demonstration was “under the radar.” The diagram, drawn by compiling weekly news summaries from Journalism.org, contains not even a postage-...[read more]

This decade will largely determine whether humanity gets on the path to a low-carbon economy fast enough to avert catastrophic climate change.  And the single biggest obstacle to action today is the same as it’s been for two decades — anti-science conservatives. As Revkin explained in 2008 piece about a major conference of...[read more]

As I noted last week, “Revkin rumored to be considering bolting from NY Times.” Now it’s official.   The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media reports today: Andy Revkin’s Last Day at NY Times: December 21 Science writer Andrew C. Revkin, the individual journalist most identified with reporting on climate change, is...[read more]

Andy Revkin has a nice short summary of the wisdom, or lack thereof, of pledging to avoid climate warming of 2 deg C or any other threshold beyond which climate disaster looms.The problem is that not only is there no one firm threshold, even if there were, there is no reason to think we could agree on it. Yes, the uncertainty in...[read more]