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82Global Warming Science In The Age Of Queen Victoria
Perhaps it’s the dramatic weather changes, or perhaps it is mere coincidence, but mountains recur in the lives of the first scientists to investigate the physics of climate. Claude Pouillet hailed from the...
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76Global Warming Science And The Dawn Of Flight
The Wright brothers' "Flyer" takes to the air, 10:35 AM, December 17, 1903. In the middle years of the 1890s, the world was trembling on the brink of breakthroughs and breakdowns, and so was the...
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85"Climate Cover-Up": A Review
You’ve been lied to. The first decade of the new millennium has been the warmest ever--yet you are being told that the world is cooling. The greenhouse effect was discovered in 1824, and the role that...
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84"The Long Thaw": A Review
David Archer’s The Long Thaw may just have the best symbolic cover graphic of any recent book on climate change: a human fingerprint, 90% submerged in true iceberg fashion, beneath a cloudy sky. One...
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89How (not) to install a low-flow toilet
Winston Churchill (who had an American mother) is supposed to have once quipped in a moment of wartime frustration with his best allies that: "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after...
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80"Fixing Climate": A review
Dr. “Wally” Broecker is no fan of large bureaucracies, which is why, though he is a “grand old man” of contemporary climate science, he has never participated in the International Panel on Climate...
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88The Science Of Global Warming In The Age Of Napoleon
If we think of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, many things might come to mind: "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity," Marie Antoinette and her unfortunate dietary recommendations for the poor; La...
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78How (not) to apply lap siding
In a comment on my first "how (not) to" hub--How (not) to install a low-flow toilet--I was told, "you are so not 'Canada's worst handyman!'" This might seem self-evident, given that I live in Atlanta, but I...
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71The Science of Global Warming In The Age of Revolution
“A forest of bayonets,” thought Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet, Professor of Physics at the Sorbonne and Director of the Conservatoire des arts et métiers, in whose courtyard this unwelcome forest now...
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