Updated, 12:23 p.m. |
Here's another end-of-the-week roundup of noteworthy news and analysis on issues relevant to Dot Earth grabbed from the 24/7 fire-hose flow:
Fracking | Bryan R. Walsh of Time Magazine has beautifully summarized energy issues that are simmering today as President Obama takes his education-oriented bus tour to Binghamton, N.Y., at the epicenter of the fight over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the gas drilling boom it has spawned:
Obama and Cuomo can't avoid the fracking debate in New York: http://t.co/fvePbkLB3A
— Bryan Walsh (@bryanrwalsh) 22 Aug 13
Pro- and anti-fracking campaigners are converging on the site of Obama's education speech, aiming to shift the news focus to energy and the environment. I posted the two sides' battle plans yesterday:
Photo: .@BarackObama bus tour aimed at education, but #fracking camps to make Binghamton stop about… http://t.co/e59BnVG8Uw
— Andy Revkin (@Revkin) 22 Aug 13
(In a related development, Lawrence Cathles, an earth and atmospheric sciences professor at Cornell University, sent me a fresh rebuttal to the Op-Ed article on the contribution of natural gas leaks to global warming by his colleague, Anthony Ingraffea (earlier critiques are here). I haven't had time to post it on Dot Earth but here's a link to Cathles's commentary set up on Slideshare.)
Climate Miscommunication | The Union of Concerned Scientists, demonstrated a welcome nonpartisan approach to tracking misstatements on human-driven global warming with "Al Gore, Climate Science, and the Responsibility for Careful Communication," its post on unhelpful hurricane hype from former Vice President Al Gore. Here's how the organization summarized the piece on Twitter:
.@algore=great #climate educator, so must get facts right http://t.co/3UXQjQfAkg Though real attacks on science >harm than overstatements
— Concerned Scientists (@UCSUSA) 22 Aug 13
There are echoes here of issues that arose in 2009.
[Update, 12:23 p.m. | Joe Romm, in eliciting the first public response on this issue from Gore's office, makes a convincing argument that the Washington Post needs to correct the record given the full unedited interview transcript of Gore's hurricane comment in his exchange with the Post's Ezra Klein:
"The scientists are now adding category 6 to the hurricane…some are proposing we add category 6 to the hurricane scale that used to be 1-5."]
Blogging | David Roberts, who's been blogging on energy, the environment and politics for a decade nearly nonstop at Grist, created a disturbance in the force when he announced he's going offline for a year, to focus on family, fitness and drafting a novel. Here's my Twitter farewell, and another fun riff on his departure:
Ever wise, @drgrist takes year off from run-on sentence of bloggery. http://t.co/4wVQTBD5Kv Relevant song: http://t.co/L8QcQE6sTE Good luck!
— Andy Revkin (@Revkin) 20 Aug 13
Climate Hawk Down: Grist's Dave Roberts @drgrist to go offline for a full year! http://t.co/UHfHCuUVch
— Climate Progress (@climateprogress) 20 Aug 13
If you missed it, here's a rare in-person encounter between the two of us at Grist's offices earlier this summer:
There's much, much more of interest out there that I don't have time to explore in full here. The best way to keep track is through my Twitter feed or by joining those who follow me on Facebook.
On Twitter this morning, for instance, I've explored trends and questions related to Arctic sea ice and noted an update on the sleepy start to this summer's Atlantic hurricane season (which doesn't say anything about the next several months).
Updated, 12:47 p.m. | On another Arctic front, the notion that a huge outburst of heat-trapping methane is nigh from the seabed off Siberia, here's an update:
Eight scientists post strong critique of Whiteman @cwhope Wadhams Arctic methane bomb piece: http://t.co/rTbexal7kG http://t.co/gGFa2NLpQ7
— Andy Revkin (@Revkin) 23 Aug 13
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