Far and away the most popular Climate Chronicle post of 2010 — I’ve only been at this since May — was the one I published on July 25 about climatologist James Hansen’s recent book, Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity.
Browsing the blog archives for December, 2010
31 Dec 10
18 Dec 10
Carbon footprint is such a gentle euphemism, as if the impressions we leave are little more than imprints in the sand; a more accurate metaphor would be “carbon wound.”
6 Dec 10
Our biggest challenge is not, as James Fallows argues, meeting an ever-growing demand for energy. Our biggest challenge is avoiding catastrophic climate change — caused primarily by the burning of holocaustic coal — that could kill and impoverish far more human beings than Hitler ever did.
