22-minute video: Climate Chains

In the current atmosphere of national and global panic, facts and the possibility of disastrous outcomes get overlooked in the irrational rush to pass climate legislation. Climate Chains is our effort to petition a reasoned and rational approach to the climate change policy debate.

Recycling: an eco-ritual we should bin | spiked

Reprocessing waste might one day be cost-effective, but for now it's a moralistic reminder that humans are greedy.

Climate change is not beyond questioning | spiked

A news feature written by a regional BBC reporter has turned out to be a surprising hit on the corporation’s online news site. In ‘What happened to global warming?’ (1), Paul Hudson, weather presenter and climate correspondent for the BBC’s Look North in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, asked why the rise in global temperatures seems to have levelled off since the last record-breaking year of 1998. In doing so, he sent the BBC’s visitor statistics soaring.

[Are all of these musicians locally grown?]: Obamas big on White House gigs

WASHINGTON — Michelle and Barack Obama sat one table over from J. Lo and Marc Anthony, and all four of them were rocking in their seats as Sheila E. shook the house — well, really the tent.

The latest installment of the White House music series was too big for the East Room, so a high-wattage assortment of Latin musicians sent pulsating, can't-help-but-bob-along rhythms tumbling out of a giant tent on the mansion's South Lawn.

As it happens, music of all sorts — rock, jazz, country, classical — has been busting out of the White House all year long.

'Superfreakonomics' Author Says It's All About Economics : NPR

SIMON: We should mention that many scientists have come out against some of the view and conclusions in this book. The Union of Concerned Scientists sent a statement to WEEKEND EDITION that takes issue with the chapter titled "Global Cooling." According to the organization, the chapter, quote, "repeats a large number of easily discredited arguments regarding climate science, energy production, and geo-engineering. The authors appear to have taken a purposefully contrarian position on climate change, science and economics."

Now, we spoke with Professor Levitt last night. He disagrees with the characterization of his argument that's made by the Union of Concerned Scientists. And he's offered to come on our program and exchange ideas with someone from that group. We'd like to do that in the next few weeks.