McPherson takes on mt taking on McPherson at Radio Ecoshock. Fireworks ensue. [more]

The Breakthrough site has a critique of Naomi Klein by Will Boisvert that makes some compelling points, the egregious “Bishop Hill”‘s enthusiasm notwithstanding. [more]

Whatever you may think of Naomi Klein, it’s interesting to watch how much her interviewer wishes she were interviewing somebody else. [more]

Robust GCM results analyzed by Lehmann et al offer a slew of interesting conclusions in a new analysis. There’s little comfort for the American Southwest in the picture. [more]

An international climate agreement appears to be effectively impossible in the near term. But, as Naomi Klein explains, most local legislation is illegal in the absence of an international agreement, according the the WTO. This is a problem. [more]

Brett Anderson recommends updating the iconic shape of the Louisiana cutout map. [more]

A thoughtful article by Rebecca Schumann about peer review by appears in Slate.
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Noam Chomsky invokes the Owl of Minerva, climate change, and middle eastern politics, and doesn’t see a good outcome.
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Seen on Austin EcoNetwork:

The world has had a couple of generations of stability and a global economic system has emerged that has many benefits. Meanwhile, global sustainability problems like climate change have emerged which are technically solvable but which the current world finds very difficult to cope with. This talk will outline the scope of the problem, examine why the usual solutions we have developed to our problems are so ineffective against it, and discuss how we can move forward both locally here in Texas and globally as citizens of the world. [more]

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An article by Tim Radford in the Guardian reports that since 2009, ice volume loss in Greenland has increased by a factor of about two, and in the West Antarctic ice sheet by a factor of three. [more]

A powerful essay by Dawn Stover in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists explains how the expression “the new normal” contributes to the problem of shifting baselines. [more]

Data hoarding is real enough, but the idea that data hoarding is some special postnormal flaw in climate science is either uninformed or vicious. Forbes has a brief article that may offer some clues. [more]

A report on Gizmodo describes what appears to be a huge imminent breakthrough in desalinization. But it seems reminiscent of an implementation of Maxwell’s demon. Is this for real? [more]