Around the DeSmogosphere
Here's what some of DeSmog's friends and fellow bloggers had to say this week:
Adam@TerraBlog writes:
A grab bag of compact-fluorescent related items this week. First up, the “wife test”: it seems women are at least partly to blame for the dismal adoption rate of CFLs in the U.S., despite the fact that women are more likely than men to express a strong willingness to make behavioral changes to fight climate change…"
Eli@Rabett Run writes:
In 1997 a mass mailing appeared across the US sent by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, a one barn, no horse outfit that had specialized in curricula for home schoolers of the frum persuasion. The mailing included a letter from Fred Seitz, who signed as the former president of the National Academy of Sciences, neglecting to mention his extremely profitable experience as a front for the tobacco industry…"
Hank@ecogeek writes:
I don't know how I missed this, but apparantly Jerry Yang and David Filo, the co-founders of Yahoo! recently sumo wrestled for the environment…"
Matt@Framing Science writes:
How do you activate an otherwise disinterested Republican base on the issue of global warming?"
Dave@GristMill writes:
I wonder what would happen if the same amount of skeptical attention paid to global warming science were paid to the other disciplines that inform policymakers: economics, opinion polling, covert intelligence, diplomacy, history, ethics, etc…"
And here's some link-love for all the hard work everyone did this week at:
