The Policy Lass

I’ve decided to remove recent posts on the pandemic to my blog, The Politics Lass, which will focus on non-climate science content. If you like general political content, check it out. This pag...

https://thepolicylass.org/2021/07/01/moving-content/

It’s been a while. UPDATE: I’m moving the content that focuses on the pandemic to my other blog, The Politics Lass, and will keep this space for discussions of the climate wars, which I antic...

https://thepolicylass.org/2021/06/17/im-back/

  Horrific images of dead sheep, koalas and kangaroos lining the roads of Batlow, New South Wales.      

https://thepolicylass.org/2020/01/05/australian-apocalypse-part-two/

You knew it would happen. It’s already happened. It’s going to get worse. Yes, it’s big oil, the most subsidized industry around, asking for more subsidization to protect its facilities —...

https://thepolicylass.org/2020/01/05/in-the-i-cant-believe-the-audacity-of-this-file/

  Russia announced that it will be adapting its economy and taking advantage of the increase in temperature due to climate change and global warming. From the article: “Russia has published a ...

https://thepolicylass.org/2020/01/05/adaptation-and-advantage-the-new-language-of-the-anthropocene/

The latest data: The science is settled: humans are changing the planet’s climate through land use and the mining, production of and burning of fossil fuels. What’s left is to convince the pu...

https://thepolicylass.org/2019/01/06/the-final-frontier/

A new study in Climatic Change linking most of the fossil fuels extracted in the last 150 years to 90 producers has garnered a bit of interest in the climate change world. One of the issues rais...

https://thepolicylass.org/2013/11/22/carbon-majors-finger-pointing-and-responsibility/

I was going to post this comment over at WTFIUWT but don’t want to taint myself after so long a time away from the idiocy and slime of the denialosphere. So, instead, I thought I’d post my co...

https://thepolicylass.org/2013/11/10/tragedies-conversion-errors-and-wrestling-with-pigs/

Couldn’t resist this. Based on the content of the study, we can presume this will be denied as well. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797612457686 Although nearly all domain exp...

https://thepolicylass.org/2013/04/22/duh/

Daniel Sarewitz has a commentary in Nature in which he claims that science is on a “worrying slide towards politicization”. The solution so that scientists can “gain the confidence of peopl...

https://thepolicylass.org/2013/01/02/on-behemoths-and-bi-partisanship/