Chatbot Takes on Global Warming Deniers

"Thank you, helpful robot!"

“Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it.” Faced with a blizzard of climate denialist talking points, Nigel Leck took Oscar Wilde’s dictum to heart and went out and did something. He wrote a script. Every five minutes the “chatbot” AI_ AGW checks Twitter for a series of stock phrases, the [...]

Election 2010: Lessons Learned and Mis-Learned

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The ballots are cast and mostly counted, and now the post-mortem begins. What does the midterm election mean for the environment? Was this a rejection of progressives? Not so much. As Meteor Blades noted over at DailyKos, it wasn’t the Progressive Caucus that was decimated – it was the moderate/conservative Blue Dog Caucus. Only four [...]

Is The Opportunity To Reduce The Risk Of Climate Change Beneath Us As Americans?

Leased Farm Land

A significant opportunity to mitigate the risk of climate change is literally “beneath us,” but not in the arrogant sense of our current, political tide.  I’m talking about our soils.  Not the ones paved over in our urban centers, but the soils under the hundreds of millions of acres of our farm land.  These soils [...]