Polar Bears Hate Al Gore | Wizbang

The lesson is of course that you shouldn’t add a species to the endangered species on a gut feeling, or to push a political agenda, or because you believe they have to be in danger because these horrible things have to be happening.  The world is a complex place.  It’s easy to draw a box with a couple of arrows and say if A goes up, then B goes down.  But such simple relationships rarely hold in the real world.

Why The Hunger Games is no climate parable: A science fiction pro explains | Grist

The environmental community is starved for decent fiction parables for the fears that we have, but it still feels like I have a lot of territory to myself when I’m writing about these topics. It’s interesting to me that there isn’t a whole spate of global warming books.

Twitter / @RyanMaue: Spring really stinks in Mo ...

Spring really stinks in Monterey -- another trough probably on way for next weekend. Highs in 50s is no way to live. policlimate.com/weather/curren…

Twitter / @grist: If everyone used as much e ...

If everyone used as much energy as Americans, we’d run out of oil in 9 years bit.ly/HkUjTC

How long would it last if we all used energy like Barack Obama's immediate family?