Exploding the Myth of American Exceptionalism
While it’s not a surprise to many of us, the latest international health study confirms what many of us have been saying for a long time–the only thing exceptional about American today is...
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Pointing Barrels, Pointing Fingers
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” Never one to shy away from a fight, especially one about guns in America, the...
The Abnormal is the New Anthropocene Climate Norm
“The danger signs are all around.” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon While we really don’t need UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to tell us how f’d the planet and all of us are, it’s somewhat...
Hurricane Sandy: The New Normal Revisited
{Revised 11/4} *Added more discussion on the energy policy-natural disasters link – thanks to BL-T. Roger Pielke recently wrote a piece in the WSJ called ‘Hurricanes and Human Choice’ that discussed the relationship...
Anthropocene Omens: Is Hurricane Sandy Our Future?
Now that we’re almost a week past Hurricane Sandy having made landfall along the East Coast, and slamming us here in New York, we’re finally starting to get a picture of the full...
Frankenstorm Lives!
Before I could even say shazam, there he was, the famous monster Frankenstein, giving us the latest weather news on Hurricane Sandy. Ok, that’s not quite true: Frankenstein came later, after the...
