DeSmog

Facebook-f X-twitter
Subscribe

DeSmog

Donate
Search
Search

Chris Mooney on the global warming tipping point

By Emily Murgatroyd
on

In my recent conversations with peers in the science policy world (read “fellow geeks”), the same question has come up repeatedly of late: Why did global warming “tip”? How has the issue finally managed to go mainstream, so that even President Bush now seems on the verge of feeling its urgency?
Chris Mooney, author of the new book, Storm World, has a piece on Huffington Post today describing his thoughts on how global warming has moved into the spotlight as a major issue in America.

By Emily Murgatroyd

Related Posts

AI Needed to Produce More Gas to Power More AI, Tech Firm Cohere Says
ByMary Stuart
on
Backed by a $1.6 billion investment from Mark Carney’s Liberal government, Cohere is pitching its services to the oil and gas sector.
Series: Tech vs Climate
Cohere co-founder and CEO Aidan Gomez.
uk/Millions of Dollars Pouring into UK Democracy from Trump’s America
ByMax Colbert and Sam Bright
on
This funding, including significant sums received by MPs, “poses urgent questions for the government”, campaigners say.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy, MAGA
Revealed: Pro-AI Data Center Group Spending At Least $2.54M on TV Ads to Influence Ohio Election
ByEdward Donnelly and Rei Takver
on
Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Greg Brockman are among the Silicon Valley megadonors reportedly linked to a campaign to influence voters in a state at the heart of the data center boom.
Series: Tech vs Climate
us/Ohio Denies Evidence of Fracking Waste in Drinking Water. Its Own Records Show Otherwise. 
ByJustin Nobel
on
As more than a billion gallons of oil and gas wastewater flood beneath Ohio, pollution concerns reach its heated governor’s race.
Outline of the state of Ohio, filled red, with the locations of Columbus, Coshocton, and Marietta in central, eastern and southeastern parts. The graphic of Ohio has valves and pipes of a fracking wastewater injection well pumping waste into the state. A vintage 1900s era map surrounds Ohio.