Aggressive climate action ASAP (left figure) minimizes future warming. Inaction (right figure) results in catastrophic levels of warming, 9°F over much of U.S. (Via ClimateProgress, IPCC)
If the Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report didn't scare you, a study in the journal Nature should do the trick. It may have a dull title ("The projected timing of climate…
Al Bartlett in January 2005. Photo by Marty Caivano/Daily Camera
Al Bartlett, Boulder physics professor emeritus who dedicated his post-retirement career to preserving Boulder and trying to get people not as smart as him (which was pretty much everybody) to understand the exponential function and its environmental and social impacts, died over the weekend. Brittany Anas,…
They found Randy Udall yesterday -- he had been hiking alone on a remote trail up in Wyoming's Wind River Range, a place he knew well. Poles were still in hand, the Denver Post reports.
"Randy left this Earth doing what he loved most: hiking in his most favorite mountain range in the world," the Udall…
The Denver Post did a sort of quasi book-review/reax piece today to Weekly Standard writer Jonathan Last's What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster.
Cute, but no panacea
One of the few things conservatives seem able to agree on these days is that people -- ideally conservatives -- should be having more babies…
A few months ago, Micah Williams, TEDxMileHigh's newest (and only full-time) employee, asked if I might write a blog post about climate change. I said "sure," and then I thought about what I could say about climate change that wasn't being said.
I used to cover the topic at the Daily Camera, and still follow it…