Articles about Chris Mason
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Carl Pope Breaks With Traditional Climate Agenda
Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, said on a "Politics of Green" panel discussion this week in Denver…
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Scrap Kyoto
Kyoto is dead - and that's a good thing. In its place, we need massive global investment in new clean energy…
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Gandhi the Modernist?
A few days ago, Michael Shellenberger blogged about how some of India's most prominent thinkers, like the leader of the…
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Ozone Hole No Model for Climate
Andy Revkin blogs that Nobel laureate Dr. Steven Chu says that climate change is not like dealing with the ozone hole.…
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Joe Romm’s Fuzzy Math
[UPDATE: Joe Romm replies in the comments: "Roger -- Thanks for catching my C vs CO2 error.those are very hard to…
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What is Joe Romm Complaining About?
Joe Romm has continued his hysterical, content-free attacks on me and my colleagues for suggesting a view not 100% the…
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Maybe Horses Will Fly - Developing Countries and Global Warming
Last week, the New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin blogged about the World Bank's decision to finance a major new…
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The Debate Gets Civil: Romm Apologizes For Unfair Attacks
A controversial commentaryin last week's Nature -- arguing that the IPCC greatly underestimated the emissions…
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Romm vs. Expert Consensus on Energy Technology
The Center for American Progress's Joe Romm claims we don't need technology breakthroughs -- defined as disruptive or…
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The Green Politics of Personal Destruction: Deconstructing Joe Romm
Last week, Roger Pielke Jr. and two co-authors published a landmark commentary in the science journal Nature suggesting…
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Joe Romm’s Dissembling
Joe Romm is someone who I've never met, but he has taken on a somewhat odd obsession with attacking me over the…
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Misinformation from Grist
The bloggers at Grist have taken strong issue with the Commentary in Nature that I co-authored with Tom Wigley and…
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Joe Romm's Challenge
Joe Romm, a former political appointee [Update: Mr. Romm has asked that a fuller description of him be provided here,…
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Al Gore Misrepresents the Emissions Challenge
AFP reported over the weekend that Al Gore wants to see more discussion of the challenge of reducing emissions of…
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Can Conservatism Rule?
Anti-government conservatism is ascendent. The Tea Party is the most significant social movement since the anti-war…
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A Price Tag on Mother Nature? A Cautionary Tale
The early 1980s were a period of crisis and change for the environmental movement. President Ronald Reagan had swept to…
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Why Andrew Sullivan is Wrong About Obama
By Michael Burnam-FinkCross-posted from We Alone on Earth. Andrew Sullivan has been blowing up the internet with an…
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Thoughts on the Future of the Creative Class
In 2002, it was easy to imagine that America's bright future could be realized in the minds of the so-called creative…
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Rethinking College Majors
I made a joke to my friend the other day that the lesson to take away from articles like this recent Economix blog…
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The Future of Pop Music and Youth Culture
Concerns that the US economy can no longer innovate seem to be trickling into the cultural realm. According to Grant…
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What It Means to Forget on Facebook
This post has been cross-posted from my blog, Mneumozine, where I write about memory. It's odd that Facebook makes…
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Don't Cut Investment, Cut the Deficit
According to MIT economist Daron Acemoglu, the debt ceiling is just a distraction. The real problem with the American…
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Erle Ellis’ Cheap Fantasy
I found Erle Ellis's piece, "The Planet of No Return," badly overblown, even on points where I'm in basic agreement.…
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Dr. Pangloss, I Presume
Erle Ellis begins his essay, "The Planet of No Return," with a worshipful paean to humanity's powerful ability to…
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Agriculture Didn’t Plow Under the Hunters
In, "The Planet of No Return," Erle Ellis contends that "hunting-and-gathering was not displaced for lack of wild…
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The Ponzi Scheme of Perpetual Growth
In his hubristic essay, "The Planet of No Return," Erle Ellis argues, "The perennial concern that human civilization…
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When Worlds Collide
Anthropogenic climate change represents one of the greatest and swiftest transformations the earth has experienced.…
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Paradigm of No Return
Erle Ellis, who authored "Planet of No Return" for Issue 2 of the Breakthrough Journal, replies here to responses from…
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