By Dan Kennedy • The press, politics, technology, culture and other passions

Year: 2009

Why Climategate doesn’t matter (VII)

The series explained. Ashar Chor, an island that’s part of the desperately poor nation of Bangladesh, is literally drowning, as rising seas eat away at the shore. Within 25 to 30 years, according to GlobalPost, the island could be gone. “Ten years ago we lived three kilometers farther out to what is now sea, but […]

Why Climategate doesn’t matter (VI)

The series explained. In the current issue of the New Yorker, the environmental journalist Fen Montaigne reports on the decline of the Adélie penguin in the northwest Antarctic Peninsula — a decline directly traceable to a catastrophic loss of sea ice in recent decades, compounded by an increase in snowfall, which interferes with the penguins’ […]

Why Climategate doesn’t matter (V)

The series explained. Maple syrup, a New England staple since Colonial times, may become an exotic import as a result of global warming. Sap production from sugar maples is dependent on warm days and freezing nights. But climate change has been accompanied by earlier and earlier springs — and a smaller window for producing maple […]

Why Climategate doesn’t matter (IV)

The series explained. Carbon dioxide is killing the world’s coral reefs in two distinctly different ways. Indirectly, the human-caused build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere has led to global warming, which pushes these fragile ecosystems outside the narrow range of temperatures in which they can thrive. In 2006, National Geographic put it this way: “Small […]

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