I thought of a potentially interesting follow up to Karen Street’s post last week on climate change skeptics and deniers. For those who are skeptics/deniers, I’m interested in the answers to the following questions: 1. What evidence/findings/research would convince you beyond a reasonable doubt that large scale, potentially catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming is occurring? Note: [...]
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Jeff Master’s blog gathers together a lot of the information from NOAA, etc and analyzes it. Today I learned that a freeze is likely to damage plants that blossomed early in the excellent weather in much of the US. Early blooms, but the final frost of the season is not necessarily moving earlier in the [...]
The discussion continues: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Power in Japan
Posted in Ethics, Karen Street, Nature, Politics, Science on Nov 15th, 2011
The article Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Power in Japan in the August 2011 Friends Journal received a number of comments, including a request to explain why I used International Atomic Energy Agency’s numbers on Chernobyl and ignored a claim that 1 million have died already from Chernobyl. I addressed this (published as a Forum piece [...]
What People are Saying—Cap and trade for greenhouse gas: yes or no?
Posted in Culture, Karen Street, Law & Legislation, Science, Technology on Jun 17th, 2011
The What People are Saying portion of the series on the culture wars began with Climate change is a concern: yes or no? Now for part 2:
Climate change from ppm to Nemo
Posted in Karen Street, Nature, Science on Jun 12th, 2011
Recent climate change posts from the American Association for the Advancement of Science site (plus one from International Energy Agency, and at the bottom, an unrelated post on bar-headed geese): • Climate Change Already Hurting Agriculture Changes in agriculture due to climate change
What People are Saying— Climate change is a concern: yes or no?
Posted in Culture, Karen Street, Nature, Politics, Public, Science on Jun 9th, 2011
For some time I have been wrestling with the culture wars. I hear a Tower of Babel mentality run rampant over attempts to address climate change. Many arguments seem legitimate to me, because they are based in established sources I trust. Others seem to come out of nowhere and I wonder if we are speaking [...]
A Voice From the Past
Posted in Culture, Phil Hawkins on Aug 21st, 2010
Just a few days before he left office, President Dwight Eisenhower delivered a speech (text found here: that included warnings of several dangers he saw for the United States. One of those warnings got most of the attention in the following years: his concern about the “military-industrial complex.” That term continued to reverberate for most [...]
A warm welcome to our readers and their friends
Posted in Culture on Dec 4th, 2009
As venues you have previously frequented change in ways that no longer suit you or fade away entirely, consider Alexandria as a place to visit more often, if not ultimately come to inhabit. As our Guidelines for Authors and Guidelines for Commenters make clear, the paramount value in Alexandria is full freedom of conversation on [...]
Skeptobrainiac
Posted in Mind, Science, Scott Lahti on Mar 26th, 2009
Entertainment in the grand manner in this profile (c. 8500 words) of a rebellious scientific genius by a gifted author whose grand-dad, Alexander Gerschenkron, about whom he wrote a fine book, was a legendary Harvard economic historian of staggering erudition. I see already that global-warming activists are spitting blood over this article: MAGAZINE March 29, [...]
Palin, global warming, and apostasy
Posted in Language, Media, Politics, Wordadvocate, World on Oct 2nd, 2008
When Sarah Palin was asked by Katie Couric about whether climate change is caused by human activity, she responded, “I’m not going to solely blame all of man’s activities on changes in climate.” I immediately reaction was that she had committed a syntacical error reflective of her generally poor performance, since the meaning of her [...]
Baby Bear’s case for eugenics
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Family, Nature, Politics, Robert Johnson, War, World on Feb 20th, 2008
There are two alarums currently circulating in the ether, that concerning man-made global warming and that concerning what is poetically termed “demographic winter.” The nexus of these two crises would seem to leave us with at least one clear and straightforward solution. If, like a large scale version of a termite colony generating sufficient metabolic [...]