Posted in Opinion on Mar 27th, 2008
[Energy, Life]I know, I haven’t blogged here in almost a year. It’s been a busy one: a new daughter, job interviews, attempting to finish my PhD, and flipping a condo on the side (into a down market, now that’s courage–or something). Nevertheless, I plan to keep this blog active and return to it […]
Posted in Opinion on Jul 18th, 2007
[Education, Global Warming, Media, Peer Review, Science]Those following the waning “debate” over anthropogenic global warming (AGW) will have noticed a change in its flavor over the last two years. 2005 was the year in which the remaining few credible scientific arguments against global warming in general were eliminated (see this post). Now, even […]
Posted in Opinion on Jun 13th, 2007
[Advocacy, NewSpace, Space]In case you don’t come to this entry steeped in the space-related blogosphere, suffice it to say that many, many entries have been written about what space advocates need to do to push our cause to the general public. So, to communicate intellectually to an audience what we advocates generally view much […]
Posted in Opinion on Apr 18th, 2007
[Conservationalism, Environmentalism, Green, Pragmatism]For those of us willing to look around objectively, the prospects of a green future look better than they have in decades. That’s despite the major threat this world faces from global warming, continued air pollution, and mass extinctions. The reason things are looking more green is that Green is […]
Posted in In The News, Book Reviews, Opinion on Mar 13th, 2007
[Capitalism, Climate Change, Conservation, Environmentalism, Pragmatism]You’re forgiven if you have missed it, but there’s a rhetorical war being waged on blogs and in the tradition media for the soul of the modern environmental movement. I’ve written of this concept before, and as I see it there are two primary groups involved: the conservationists and […]
Posted in Opinion on Mar 9th, 2007
[Carbon, Environment, Environmentalism, Offsets]It has been quite some time since I last wrote here. I assure you I have no intention of abandoning this blog, it’s just that my wife is seven and a half months pregnant, and much of the duties of housework and cooking have fallen on me. I just wanted […]
Posted in In The News, Opinion on Oct 27th, 2006
[Armadillo Aerospace, Space, Space Advocacy, Space Exploration, X Prize]If you happen to have been reading this blog for the last year or so, you may have noticed that I sometimes find myself at odds with Jeffrey Bell, the occasional opinion writer at Space Daily.com. Here’s a link to his latest column, but let me […]
Posted in Opinion on Sep 29th, 2006
[Politics, President Bush, Terrorism, Torture]From the title I’m sure you can guess to what I am referring: yesterday the senate approved a bill on terrorism-suspect detainee treatment. For those of us who watched and applauded Governer Warner, John McCain, and Lindsay Graham stand up last week and defy the President on this issue, it […]
Posted in Book Reviews, Opinion on Sep 17th, 2006
[1491, Charles Mann, Conservation, Environmentalism, New Environmentalism]The final chapter in Charles C. Mann’s 1491 entitled “The Artificial Wilderness” elaborates his vision of the New World as having been thoroughly shaped by its Indian peoples. In the previous chapter, “Amazonia”, Mann suggests that as much as 1/8th of the Amazonian dryland forests may be in […]
Posted in Opinion on Sep 15th, 2006
[Capitalism, Corporations, Ethanol, Ford, Futurism, Hybrid]While listening to NPR’s Science Friday, the radio host announced that the program is supported by Ford, and then said something akin to: “who has sold over 1 million hybrid ethanol vehicles.” My first reaction to this is probably best put as OMGWTF?!?
I laughed. What brilliant […]
