global-warming
Arrest Climate-Change Deniers
Adam Weinstein · 03/28/14 01:53PMRoughly .02 Percent of Published Researchers Reject Global Warming
Adam Weinstein · 03/26/14 03:35PMScientist: Sorry, It's Too Late to Avoid Environmental Disaster
Hamilton Nolan · 02/27/14 02:19PMHamilton Nolan · 02/17/14 09:08AM
Natural Gas For Cars Does Not Help the Environment
Hamilton Nolan · 02/14/14 10:31AMAppreciate This Beautiful Freezing Snow Nightmare While You Can
Ken Layne · 01/03/14 05:35PMIt seems there's a bit of inclement weather on the East Coast, and also around the Great Lakes and the Midwest and (who knows?) maybe even Texas and the South. Please enjoy your blizzards and Winter Wonderland, because snow and cold are beautiful things, and one day you can tell your starving children living underground what it was like to go outside on a crisp winter's day.
2014 Is the Year of the Seven-Toed 3D Pornography Beast
Ken Layne · 01/01/14 10:00AMOn this New Year's Day in America, 2014, the nation's typists ("thought leaders") are required to use their long-dormant psychic abilities to designate the next 12 months as the Year of Something or Other, whether that be "accidental mass suicide" or "wearable automobiles" or "raccoon-sized talking spiders." Such predictions will generally be wrong, yet there is also the remote possibility that the simple act of making a prediction will cause it to happen, no matter how ridiculous or vile.
Hamilton Nolan · 12/18/13 12:46PM
Hamilton Nolan · 12/10/13 12:00PM
In America in 2013, a news story on a new record cold temperature in Antarctica (-135.8!) finds it necessary to include this explanation from a prominent scientist: "Just because one spot on Earth has set records for cold that has little to do with global warming because it is one spot in one place." Jesus we're dumb.
Ken Layne · 12/06/13 05:05PM
Good News For Bored People! Climate Change Promises Nonstop Excitement
Ken Layne · 11/12/13 05:06PMIf you love excitement, you're going to love these last years of your life. Civil war, food riots, monster storms and a lot more apocalyptic religious extremism will spice up even the dullest and most comfortable existence, according to a new United Nations report on the now-constant insanity we boringly call "climate change." But even the weather seems to be capitalist, because the demons of global warming most enjoy hurting the poor.
The Disastrous, Watery Future of South Florida
Hamilton Nolan · 11/11/13 11:08AMMonster Typhoon Among History's Largest, Strongest Storms Ever
Ken Layne · 11/07/13 04:01PMThe monstrous storm seen in this new satellite image is the biggest of the year and one of the most powerful tropical cyclones of all time. "Super typhoon" Haiyan is currently thrashing the entirety of the Philippines with sustained winds of 190 mph and gusts up to 230 mph, and then it's headed for Vietnam. It's such a wildly dangerous storm that it's even terrifying the weather forecasters.
Mysterious Mass Moose Deaths Strike North America
Sarah Hedgecock · 10/15/13 02:20PMHamilton Nolan · 10/14/13 02:33PM
Is Environmentalism a Religion? Sure, Why Not!
Ken Layne · 10/11/13 10:15AMIf the grim news about our slow-cooking world has got you down, you might be an environmentalist. Recycling bins, hiking boots, and that reusable grocery bag you got at the farmer's market are other signs that you may have ecological beliefs and concerns. To the industrial propagandists, even your awareness of the hotter temperatures and horrific storms is proof that your green behavior is actually a religion. So what would happen if 10 million or 50 million religious environmentalists suddenly appeared on the national scene?
"Oilfield Trash" and a Boom That Won't Last
Ken Layne · 10/08/13 11:18AMPeople are strangers out here on the oil patch, and public conversation is terse and muted. You never know when an oil company manager or safety inspector or corporate spy is sniffing around. I learned after the first day in Williston, N.D., that my usual work uniform of an old sports coat and tie made me suspect. Leaving the tie at the motel helped, but not much.