Cambridge climate change pioneer dies in fall

He earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California—Berkeley in the 1960s. During his time in Cambridge, he helmed Boston’s Kendall Foundation from 1993 to 2009, making it one of the first philanthropic organizations in the world to focus exclusively on climate change.

Doug Craig's blog

America created baseball, jazz and this particularly cruel and deceptive beast known as climate change denial. We can proud of many things in our great nation but the fact that climate change "scepticism first appeared in an organized and politically effective form" here in "the land of the free" is not one of them.

- Bishop Hill blog - Misunderstanding FOI

The problem with Moore's position is that it is based on a misunderstanding of what the purpose and effect of the FOI Act are. FOI has exposed corruption and graft within the government and civil service to the benefit of the public at large. This is what it was designed to do. In this way the Act's authors hoped to introduce a deterrent effect on the corruption of the civil service. Set alongside these significant gains, Murray's arguments about the loss to historians look rather feeble.

But what about his more substantive point about the "chilling effect" on policy development. It's hard to know just how many times it will be necessary to repeat the point, but let's just say it once again. Documents related to the policy development process are exempt from FOI. There is no problem.

More research required before you vent, Mr Moore.

One Mother's Reaction To The Climate Silence: 'I'm Angry As Hell And High Water' | ThinkProgress

The fact is, life in a world with an unreliable, chaotic climate means that we–and our children–are going to face some very hard choices, very soon, about who lives. And who dies.