Subject: Climatology

• Backing or Backpedaling?

  Governor Schwarzenegger took a stand on cutting greenhouse gases yesterday. His stand? Going on the commonly held theory that most readers never get beyond the headline and first paragraph of a newspaper story, unless they have some compelling interest in the story, his stand depends on what city you live in. The Los Angeles Times story has the headline, Gov. Calls for Curbs on Emissions, and begins: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday threw his political weight behind a drive to curb green

  April 12, 2006

• At the Movies

  After a corrupt Congressional electoral committee declared Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 presidential election, Samuel Tilden, the Democratic candidate and the actual winner of the election, left politics and, as Gore Vidal delicately put it, "retired to private life and to the pleasures of what old-time New Yorkers used to recall, wistfully, as one of the greatest collections of pornography in the Gramercy Park area of Manhattan." One hundred and twenty-four years later,

  June 2, 2006

• Popcorn and Greenhouse Gases (non Al Gore edition)

  Hot on the heels of last night's Orange County Film Society's premier of Chris Paine's Who Killed the Electric Car?– a documentary that makes the "compelling case: that oil companies, automakers, lawmakers, consumers and the media killed a workable solution to air pollution, global warming, soaring gas prices, dwindling oil reserves and international terrorism", according to the Weekly's film maven (and chicken and vegan pasta enthusiast) Matt Coker– comes the news that "American car

  June 28, 2006

• Rohrabacher's Appalling Flatulence

  In case you missed it, you can find video of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Surfin') speculating about the effects of dinosaur flatulence here. And no, booze was not involved in the congressman's ramblings. Probing the effects of dinosaur farting is just something Rohrabacher sees as part of his official duties, one of the ways in which he serves the interests of his constituents. The question about the noxious gas emitted by thunder-lizards was part of the noxious gas Rohrabacher emitted during la

  February 13, 2007

• Change in the air?

  This is certainly a refreshing development, although the participation of a gubernatorial candidate smacks of political posturing. NEW REPORT ON COMPANIES IN CALIFORNIA, ELSEWHERE TO FIND WIDE DISPARITY IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSES; INVESTORS WILL PUSH POOR-PERFORMING FIRMS TO SHAPE UP NEWS ADVISORY - March 21, 2006 -- A first-ever comprehensive assessment of a half-dozen of California's largest companies on their handling of climate change risks and opportunities is the subject of a major new

  March 17, 2006

• Shake n' Bake

  It's been funny--not funny ha-ha--sitting here on the sidelines watching the changing global-warming debate. While the international scientific community for years has piled voluminous report atop voluminous report detailing that global warming is real, producing all sorts of climatic problems and either is or most probably is human caused, those who originally pooh-poohed the eggheads have gone from saying it's a myth, to it's a normal cyclical weather pattern, to okay, so it's happening, whadd

  July 5, 2006

• Baby, It's Warm Outside

  The Inconvenient Truth is on its way to becoming the box-office champeen of documentaries (pound sand, Michael Moore!). Orders are already brisk for the DVDs that won't be out until November. However, because Truth starred Satan's spawn Al Gore, there's a good chance many holy rollers skipped it and headed into whatever anti-Semitic Mel Gibson "Christian" movie was playing at the time. Well, fear not, Samson and Delilah: there is a new global-warming documentary coming that's especially for lov

  September 12, 2006

• Irvine Starbucks Climate Crisis Discussion Today

  Just came over the wire: At 2 p.m. today, the Starbucks Coffee at 3995 Alton Pkwy. in Irvine is hosting a "National Day of Discussion" on the issue of "climate crisis" in support of a new Paramount/National Geographic-sponsored film, Arctic Tale. Filmmakers Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson, as well as May Chiu with Global Green USA, will be on hand. According to the press release, the new film is "about the real-life adventures of a polar bear and a walrus struggling to survive as warmer temp

  August 15, 2007

• Rappers or Republicans?

  In May, we posited that southern hip hop and Fox News share much in common. Possessing both an anti-intellectual streak and a populist one, they’re beloved by red-staters and hated on by the coastal elites, be they liberals, hipsters, Ghostface or Nas. The piece concluded: If you're still not convinced that Southern rap and Fox News are one and the same, consider the countless Southern rap odes to big cars and the wasteful misuse of fossil fuel, an indulgence the global-warming deniers on Fox

  August 5, 2008

• No. 1 on the Palin/Hewitt/Colbert Threat Down: (Polar) Bears!

  Sarah Palin invigorated the conservative base with her surprisingly poised speech to GOP delegates last night, kicking new life into what had been a ho-hum convention previously “highlighed” by the Dead Man Talking triad (George W. Bush, Fred Thompson and Joe Lieberman). Clockwork's favorite scene: delegates sporting “The Hottest VP From the Coolest State” buttons berating the media for being sexist toward America's favorite hockey mom. Palin's performance certainly perked up Hugh Hewit

  September 4, 2008

• Crystal Method

  November 4, 1999

• Wildfires Just a Sneak Preview?

  Ted Soqui shot this in Yorba Linda the weekend past. See his amazing slideshow here. Now that the fires have been contained, heroes have been identified, firefighting techniques have been blasted, causes have been zeroed in on, and our Last Action Hero Governor has likened the disaster to one of the crappiest action movies ever (Armageddon, which he didn’t even star in), some sobering news: Worse wildfires are likely a-comin’. So says a report released last week by UC Berkeley researchers

  November 19, 2008

• UCI Scientist Helps Add More Culprits to the Global Warming List

  Anyone worth Al Gore's salt knows that cars, factories and farting cows contribute to global warming, but an international study that includes the research of a UC Irvine scientist has found drought and deforestation can also help fuel the pesky phenomenon and should be included in future climate pacts. ScienceDaily.com reports today:The study, analyzing six years of climate and fire observations from satellites, shows that in dry years, the practice of using fire to clear forests and remove org

  December 9, 2008

• As State OK's Tough Global Warming Rules Should Diesel Be Next?

  As expected, the state this afternoon put teeth in its landmark regulations enacted in 2006 to combat global warming, adopting the nation's most comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Such emissions must be cut 30 percent by 2020. But that is not enough for the editorial board of the San Jose Mercury News, which called on the state to follow up Friday with tough new rules to clean up diesel truck emissions. "The trucking industry is one of the last remaining major sources o

  December 11, 2008

• Toll Road Foister Jerry Amante: We're Doomed

  As chairman of the Orange County Transportation Authority, the Transportation Corridor System Board of Directors and the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA), Tustin City Councilman Jerry Amante (pictured) is all over the news today, reacting bitterly to the Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez's decision announced yesterday to uphold the California Coastal Commission rejection of the TCA's preferred route for the Foothill/South toll road extension.For instance, as local envi

  December 19, 2008

• Earth Invaders

  April 10, 2008

• Burning Up

  January 10, 2008

• The Fire of the Century . . . of the Year

  Hellish fires now, Sahara Desert later, says UCI doom prophet Mike Davis

  November 1, 2007

• Theres Got to Be a Morning After

  June 3, 2004

• Letters

  'Give us all a breakthe Mexican wetback has become the majority.'

  March 1, 2007

• An Inconvenient Slope

  Big Bears ski resorts are covered in snow despite a chronic lack of natural snowfall. So where are the crowds? Dont blame global warmingblame the media

  February 15, 2007

• Bad News With Al

  OnDVD: An Inconvenient Truth

  November 23, 2006

• Mostly, No

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! Ladies and gentlemen, the propositions!

  November 2, 2006

• Commie Girl

  July 27, 2006

• Remote Hog

  July 20, 2006

• June Gloom Boom

  June 22, 2006

• Commie Girl

  June 15, 2006

• Fahrenheit 2050

  June 1, 2006

• Science Friction

  February 23, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  February 17, 2005

• Its Snot Unusual

  Im George W. Bush, and I Approve This Destruction

  September 2, 2004

• Watching the Carbon Detective

  January 15, 2004

• More Backyard Trash Fires!

  July 10, 2003

• Lost Year

  January 2, 2003

• Uncle Sam Bets Big Money on Iraq

  November 14, 2002

• Oy, No! We Won't Go!

  April 18, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 18, 2002

• Burning Bush

  April 11, 2002

• Bad Company

  January 24, 2002

• A Nation of Consumers

  August 2, 2001

• Mickey Mite Club

  June 21, 2001

• Christine Todd Witless

  January 18, 2001

• Man on the Street on the Beach

  June 1, 2000

• It's the End of the World As You Know It, and I Don't Feel Fine

  April 27, 2000

• Globaloney

  February 17, 2000

• FORGETTING

  January 6, 2000

• Vespas Bring Musicians, Global Warming Message to Sutra

  Singer-songwriters Jason Reeves, Brendan James and Amber Rubarth, who today began a two-week ride up the California coast on Vespas to raise awareness of global warming, make a stop at 7 p.m. Friday at Sutra Lounge, 1870 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa. "It seems like back in the late '60s and early '70s, people turned to folk singers and songwriters for inspiration and answers to difficult questions," explained Reeves. "We were very motivated by that idea and hope to influence a new generation t

  April 30, 2009

• Global Warming Denier Rohrabacher Froths On

  Photo by Jack GouldRohrabacher, frothing in November.The way Scott Harper begins his story proves that he had correctly identified the speaker he was covering."U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher was in a froth . . ." Anyone who has witnessed the Mouth That Rohrabachered whip up the party faithful at GOP election night shindigs over the years knows that froth oh so well. But Harper was not at a swanky Republican fiesta nor a pity party like the Nov. 3 morgue scene that found a supremely pissed-off Dana s

  June 12, 2009

• Meat Free Monday Goes Mainstream

  Of course, by 'mainstream' I mean that celebrities are now endorsing the campaign. Paul, Stella and Mary McCartney today launched a new website, Meat Free Monday, which encourages everyone to, yes, you guessed it, give up meat on Mondays. Other famous names weighing in include Kevin Spacey, Sheryl Crow, Woody Harrelson, Alec Baldwin, Ricky Gervais and Chris Martin.The idea of cutting back on meat isn't a new one: think of rationing during the wars, due to short supplies. But this time it's out o

  June 16, 2009

• Global Warming Activists as Inescapable as Global Warming this Weekend

  ​Last week, we posted about the Global Climate Change Day of Action event taking place at Irvine Regional Park tomorrow. There'll be bells tolling, bikes biking, and a bunch of people forming a "350" for an aerial camera.But there are a bunch more of these shindigs tomorrow all over the world, including in Orange County. It is the Global Day of Action, after all.The most intriguing, at least for Jews: a "global climate healing Shabbat" at Temple Judea Laguna Hills. More events after the jump.

  October 23, 2009