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Adaptation, environmentalism, and climate change

Some links on the evolution of environmentalism and adaptation in the face of climate change:

The Anthropocene: Over at Time, Bryan Walsh has a piece on the rise of the Anthropocene Era - an acknowledgement of the human impact on the Earth. Walsh links to a Slate piece by Keith Kloor on the tension within the environmental movement

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Miscellaneous thoughts on Hurricane Sandy

A few items to share in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy:

Hurricane Sandy from NASA GOES-13

Prediction: As the son of a meteorologist, I feel obligated to note that this storm was very well forecast. Given a broader critique of science on a number of fronts, the accuracy of the forecast and the warning it provided

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Sound the panic alarm

As seen during this week’s NACTO conference, hosted at NYU’s Kimmel Center:

Oh, shit.

I post this both as an homage to Lydia DePillis’ ‘pit stops’ series when she was writing Housing Complex, and to the pending doom of Hurricane Sandy advancing upon the Northeast. Let the panic commence.

(for actual NACTO coverage, check out summaries from the commissioners,

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Adaptation, environmentalism, and climate change

Miscellaneous thoughts on Hurricane Sandy

Sound the panic alarm

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