About Social Media Today
andy revkin
In Memoriam: Steve Schneider Takes On Skeptics
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]
Eye-Opening Videos
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]
Deciphering deniers
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]
Chunks: A(nother) New Approach to Energy Policy?
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]
New Digs for Dot Earth 2.0
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]
In yet another front-page journalistic lapse, the NY Times once again equates non-scientists with climate scientists
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]
Revkin Gets Real on Climate Challenge
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]
Revkin: “The idea that we’re going to fix the climate change problem or solve global warming has always been a fantasy, totally wishful, from my standpoint.”
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]
Methane from East Siberia
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]
Communicating Climate Change: A Conversation With Andy Revkin
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]
The Butterfly Wing Beat
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]
The coming climate panic?
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]
Rumors were true: Revkin to leave NY Times Monday
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]
The challenge of agreeing on degrees
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]
FIRE!!!
Everyone’s favorite cliche for someone causing harm by being unduly alarmist is, of course, yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater. This piece of pedestrian imagery kept running through my head as I read a couple of items floating through the infosphere today.The first is a posting by Andy Revkin on the NY Times’ Dot Earth blog,... [read more]
The moderated community for energy, policy, and environment professionals
Connect with us
What's New on
Scott Edward Anderson is a consultant, blogger, and media commentator who blogs at The Green Skeptic. More »
Marc Gunther is a writer, speaker and consultant, who focuses on business and the environment. More »
Christine Hertzog is a consultant, author, and a professional explainer focused on Smart Grid. More »
Jesse Jenkins is the director of energy and climate policy at the Breakthrough Institute. More »
Robert Rapier works in the energy industry and writes and speaks about energy and the environment. More »
Geoffrey Styles is Managing Director of GSW Strategy Group, LLC and an award-winning blogger. More »
Dan Yurman is a nuclear energy blogger and writes regularly for Fuel Cycle Week. More »
The Energy Collective
- YOU
- Rod Adams
- Scott Edward Anderson
- Charles Barton
- Dick DeBlasio
- Simon Donner
- Big Gav
- Michael Giberson
- James Greenberger
- Lou Grinzo
- Marc Gunther
- Tim Haab
- Tyler Hamilton
- Arno Harris
- Christine Hertzog
- David Hone
- Tim Hurst
- Jesse Jenkins
- Lynne Kiesling
- Vicky Portwain
- Tom Raftery
- Robert Rapier
- Joseph Romm
- Robert Stavins
- Geoffrey Styles
- Michael Tobis
- Alex Trembath
- Gernot Wagner
- John Whitehead
- Todd Woody
- Dan Yurman
3rd Annual Utility Customer Experience Management Conference
When: Wed, 2012-02-08 08:00
Outage Delivery Optimisation Forum 2012
When: Wed, 2012-02-08 08:30
CSP Today South Africa 2012
When: Wed, 2012-02-08 09:00
Africa Energy Indaba
When: Tue, 2012-02-21 08:00
NERC CIP Compliance Training
When: Thu, 2012-02-23 08:00
2012 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit
When: Mon, 2012-02-27 12:27
