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The Island of Doubt (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Maybe I've just been at this too long. But it seems that the ratio between banal observations and helpful analyses of the climate crisis is much larger than usual. I mean, I was offline for five days over Thanksgiving and apparently missed nothing. Consider this conclusion from Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, writing in Yale's 360 : Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments...
Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... that gave rise to Climate McCarthyism: hyper-partisan polarization. by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus America is more polarized today than at any time since Reconstruction. A major quantitative analysis by social scientists Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal found today to be the most polarized period in 130 years. Little wonder then that Romm’s strength lies in his...
Framing Science (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... of the audience to tune out their message. In a separate article at Yale Environment 360 , Ted Nordhaus and Michael Schellenberger offer a similar argument to those I have made in the past, most recently in a paper at the journal Environment . Here's how Nordhaus and Schellenberger sum up one of the main drivers of public indifference to climate change: The lesson of recent years...
Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Is the apparent decline in public concern about global warming a result of "Apocalypse Fatigue"? That's what Breakthrough Institute rabblerousers, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, argue in their latest Yale Environmental 360 piece: The lesson of recent years would appear to be that apocalyptic threats — when their impacts are relatively far off in the future, difficult...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Apocalypse Fatigue: Losing the Public on Climate Change by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger: Yale Environment 360 Perhaps we should give the American public a little more credit. They may not know climate science very well, but they are not going to be muscled into accepting apocalyptic visions about our planetary future — or embracing calls to radically transform “our way...
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger have an interesting article up at Yale360 on public opinion and climate change. Here is an excerpt: Perhaps we should give the American public a little more credit. They may not know climate science very well, but they are not going to be muscled into accepting apocalyptic visions about our planetary future — or embracing calls to radically transform...
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The iconoclastic environmentalists Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger light into the popular green blogger Joe Romm as a Green McCarthy. Excerpts: It's no coincidence that America's Climate McCarthyite-in-chief is a blogger at the largest liberal think tank and not a U.S. Senator. Busy fundraising and campaigning, members of Congress have largely outsourced the deliberative process of legislating...
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger continue their sequence of excellent analyses of what has gone wrong in the climate debate with a post focused on the hyper-partisan nature of the climate debate . The piece is worth reading in full, but the ending is especially on target: Democratic partisans, liberals and greens have spent much of the last eight years tearing out our hair about all the...
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus continue their pushback against “Climate McCarthyism,” with a particular focus on efforts to equate unorthodox climate views with Holocaust denial, guilt-by-association, and lead Climate McCarthyite Joseph Romm. Roger Pielke Jr. chimes in here. I posted earlier on Shellenberger and Nordhaus’ first fusillade. Copyright © 2009...
WattHead (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... of Ohio and Congressman Rush Holt of New Jersey joins Matt Bennett and Josh Freed of Third Way and Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute in this video to call for a dramatic scale-up in federal funding for clean energy innovation and create a new federal institution singularly focused on the kind of research and development that can make clean energy cheap...
Backseat driving (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Herring II is out. They start with a devastating analysis:"By Ted Nordhaus and Michael ShellenbergerWikipedia defines a "global warming denier" as someone acting in "bad faith," .... Joe Romm of Center for American Progress, has used the term in radically different ways than the way Wikipedia defines it....."Gasp!(William has already replied to that.He has also asked them yet again to cite their...
Backseat driving (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Herring II is out. They start with a devastating analysis:"By Ted Nordhaus and Michael ShellenbergerWikipedia defines a "global warming denier" as someone acting in "bad faith," .... Joe Romm of Center for American Progress, has used the term in radically different ways than the way Wikipedia defines it....."Gasp!(William has already replied to that.He has also asked them yet again to cite their...
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
In Part II of their look at "Climate McCarthyism" Ted Nordhaus and Michael Schellenberger look at how Joe Romm has waged an effort over several years to smear my name and reputation. Those not interested in the blog wars should move along, but hopefully will excuse this post, as it is my reputation being attacked and I am pushing back. Here I'll add a little extra detail to the account...
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus have had enough of efforts to stifle debate over climate change policy, particularly by those who solicit quotes to “trash” those who don’t toe the party line. Roger Pielke, Jr. would add those who selectively edit their comment threads. Copyright © 2008 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. [...]
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The headline comes from environmentalists Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus over at the Breakthrough Institute. The Breakthrough guys are calling out Center of American Progress climate bully, ah, blogger, Joe Romm. As background, Shellenberger and Nordhaus recite some of the details of Romm's inaccurate attack on the SuperFreakonomics proposal to research climate engineering as...
