Only In It For The Gold

Here are pictures of Joplin MO which I took the day before yesterday. Neither the pictures nor the maps can do this thing justice. Driving ...

A bunch of folks have sent me interesting emails that I ought to respond to. It's a bit disconcerting that no matter how good of a conve...

Is it getting weird yet? This is a difficult question. Weird is not a quantifiable concept, at least not easily. And confirmation bias color...

From the LA Times. H/T Joe Romm.  

Can you imagine the US federal government taking out advertisements like this: ? Apparently there is some precedent. Good advice or not, it...

I appreciate people sharing the broad outlines of how they think we ought to handle the carbon situation. I am not entirely serious with the...

The idea of planning is this. If you have to achieve something by a certain time, start with that time and work backwards to see what was ne...

So, if we stop emitting at around the trillionth ton of C, I am told by no less than Jim Hansen , the ocean will absorb enough CO2 to get us...

We need to begin by acknowledging that our problem has no precedent. It appears that polite and reasonable pursuit of a transition to sustai...

Thanks to Dennis at Samadhisoft, here's an Australian TV piece on peak oil. I think it's an excellent example of communication of c...