one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
September 16 2011
Planets, climate and the scientific method“Imagine for a minute that, instead of discovering a diamond planet, we'd made a breakthrough in global temperature projections.”
April 11 2010
August 17 2009
Tapped trailer
August 05 2009
The Meat of the Problem“the average American would do less for the planet by switching to a totally local diet than by going vegetarian one day a week”
July 30 2009
May 20 2009
February 26 2009
September 05 2008
A changing climate of opinion?“Some scientists think climate change needs a more radical approach. As well as trying to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, they have plans to re-engineer the Earth”
July 09 2008
April 20 2008
Michael Pollan, first-class as always.“Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it's not an easy one to answer.”
Michael Pollan, first-class as always.“Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it's not an easy one to answer.”
April 13 2008
That's exactly what's happening“It doesn't take a student of psychology to tell us that if you keep moving the goal posts and offer little in the way of hope, then most people will simply give up trying”
March 08 2008
selfishness v altruism on climate change“if it's clear that the risk is high, people will work together to reach a common goal. But if it's in the balance, then selfishness takes over”
October 28 2007
October 19 2007
How it all ends
October 14 2007
September 19 2007
Little efforts do not big changes make“it is a serious distortion to imply, as the top ten lists usually do, that there is any equivalence between these lifestyle preferences and the serious decisions that really reduce emissions”