Neil H. Buchanan (George Washington): What Kind of Environment Do We Owe Future Generations? From Popular Science, the battle over climate science: Climate scientists routinely face death threats, hate mail, nuisance lawsuits and political attacks — how much worse can it get? David Berreby on why smart people deny climate change. David Roberts on the “reasonable middle” on climate change; on clean energy as culture war; on how, since most climate communication only reaches partisans, more science will not cure climate skepticism; and on the top five things voters need to know about conservatives and climate change. From New Humanist, a green religion: Anti-science dogma is damaging environmentalism. Environmentalism is not a religion: Of all the blithering nonsense climate deniers throw at the environmental movement, there is perhaps one criticism that does real damage — that "green is the new religion". From Spectrum, what if climate science is wrong? From Dummies.com, here is an environmental science cheat sheet. The Big Heat: Elizabeth Kolbert on why this summer’s heat wave is different.
