Blog on the move
As per usual there’s lots of thought-provoking stuff out there. Recent posts from Andy Revkin’s NY Times Dot Earth blog, include some addressing whether or not the American Meteorological Society should have awarded their prestigous Rossby Research Medal to Dr. James Hansen of NASA. For those of you who don’t know Dr. Hansen’s work, he’s a climate scientist known for spending his free time advocating climate change mitigation policies. Revkin includes links to several posts from other bloggers debating whether the AMS did the right thing by honoring a scientist who also has a political identity. On Realclimate.org, the latest post discusses the implication of Susan Solomon’s recent research suggesting that some irreversible damage has occurred to the climate due to human activities. This isn’t news to scientists, but the study has made waves in the media and will inevitably lead some to argue that mitigation (reducing human-caused greenhouse gas emissions) isn’t worth the effort if some climate damage will occur anyway. As David Archer notes in the post, irreversible is not unstoppable, and he reminds us that mitigating greenhouse gas emissions will reduce the amount of climate damage to which we commit ourselves. And of course, there’s always Rob Emanuel’s updates on what’s going on with water in Oregon in his H2OnCoast blog. He’s got a bunch of links to water resource blogs that I encourage you to check out. So please, explore the observations and opinions of the many other climate-wise people out there in the blogosphere. I’ll expect a full report when I get back online.
