AFF's Doublethink

It’s a snow day here in the nation’s capital, with most folks still digging out from under the foot and a half of snow that fell on Saturday. Wouldn’t the real tragedy of global warming be if our children never knew the excitement of waking up, discovering that school was closed and spending the [...]

Matt Labash of the Weekly Standard writes about his effort to have a zero-carbon footprint.
It literally involved smearing mayonnaise on his face. Go read!

The Weekly Standard blog links to a BBC article which reports,
For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. 
Naturally, the Standard reminds us that the BBC is not exactly a “bastion of right-wing extremism.” Fair enough.
But the facts are a little more complicated. As I noted back in [...]

The new issue of Foreign Affairs is hot off the presses. Its cover package includes three articles about global warming that are well worth reading. The focus here is entirely on how to solve the problem. This is a discussion of the politics, not the scientific debate behind it.
First up is Michael [...]

As always, my role is the amateur plunging into a pool of expertise. On Thursday, George Will quoted Mark Steyn to the effect,
If you’re 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you’re graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. 
Kevin Drum ismissed [...]

Amateurs like me. If you’re not a scientist, how much can really you know? Even if you are a scientist, how much can you really know?
This week, the New Yorker has a profile of James Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, written by Elizabeth Kolbert. When I saw, [...]

On Sunday morning, the White House sent out its swine flu truth squad to hit all the major Sunday talk shows, including Meet the Press, This Week and Fox News Sunday.
The truth squad was clearly desperate to avoid any questions about Joe Biden and his apocalyptic warning this week that no one should travel in [...]

From the Guardian:
In 2006, you’ll remember that the International Astronomical Union announced that Pluto was to be expelled from the planetary club, reducing the number of planets in the solar system to eight.
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It seems that the insult to Pluto has been too much to bear for the good people of Illinois. State documents declare [...]

Some people are giving Barack Obama a hard time for saying that America invented solar energy technology and the automobile. Apparently, French and British scientists came up with solar energy technology and several Germans came up with the gasoline-powered automobile.

At a technology conference the other day, Bill Gates released a jar of mosquitoes into a crowded room to make a point about malaria.
‘Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,’ the Microsoft founder yelled at a well-heeled crowd at a technology conference in California.
’I brought some,’ he added. ‘Here, I’ll let them roam around – [...]