http://www.tipping-points.com Fri, 21 May 2010 14:16:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the best thing I've read lately about the fundamental facts and the fictional "debate" about global warming, the latter of which, as I've pointed out before, is actually a public relations war. The letter was written by dozens of members of the United States National Academy of Sciences. They submitted ... http://www.tipping-points.com/?p=46 As the sparseness of this blog indicates, I've been watching the climate policy debate from a distance, lately. (There is no debate about the science.) But I was dragged into it over the weekend by a shoddy bit of reporting in the Sunday Telegraph (UK) -- which reminds me yet ... http://www.tipping-points.com/?p=45 This article appeared in Climbing, No. 208, on December 15, 2001. The magazine did a great job producing it; there were some excellent photos. I recommend getting a hold of a copy if you can ... or maybe they'll post it on their site ... ? I am posting it now because ... http://www.tipping-points.com/?p=44 Here's a piece I wrote for the Sunday "Viewpoints" section of the Fredericksburg, Virginia, Free Lance-Star. It appeared on August 23rd and was picked up by the McClatchy wire service, so it turned up in a few other places as well, the most gratifying to me being the Charleston, West Virginia, Gazette, at pretty much ground zero in the ... http://www.tipping-points.com/?p=41  Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Panel discussion on Censorship of Science at the Global Forum on Freedom of Expression Oslo, Norway http://www.tipping-points.com/?p=20 (I restrained myself and left the exclamation point off the end of the title.) Yesterday the Obama Administration named a new interim leadership team and officially stated that associate administrator Christopher Scolese "will serve as acting administrator until a successor to Michael Griffin has been nominated by the President and confirmed by the ... http://www.tipping-points.com/?p=39 (Cross-posted to Daily Kos) As the Washington Post and Daily Kos's mcjoan reported last week, the Bush administration is resorting to the time-honored tactic of burrowing, that is, shifting political appointees into tenured senior civil servant positions, in the rush to preserve as much as it can of its disastrous pro-industry ideology before Obama ... http://www.tipping-points.com/?p=38 (Cross-posted to Daily Kos) In the days since the election, a few people have asked for my thoughts on the "transition" that needs to take place at NASA as the reins of power are passed to Barack Obama. While I would not pretend to be an expert on the agency as ... http://www.tipping-points.com/?p=36 Since C-SPAN filmed Jim Hansen and myself when we spoke in Lexington, Massachusetts, on June 1, I have been waiting to see if anything would come of it. Well now something has. Book TV will be broadcasting a show about Censoring Science three times in the next six weeks. Hope it helps direct policy in some small way. If you have a chance to watch ... http://www.tipping-points.com/?p=35 This coming Friday, I'll be joining a panel at Netroots Nation in Austin, Texas, to discuss Restructuring U.S. Science Policy. Seems like a good idea to post the recent interview I did with the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), since it bears directly on some of the ideas I ... http://www.tipping-points.com/?p=33