Quark Soup by David Appell

That was one truly amazing speech by Obama. It's a shame he only does this when he's in a campaign.

Climate denier Art Robinson loses in Oregon. Again.

The big story, it seems -- regardless of who wins, tonight -- is the changing demographics of the electorate, especially from whites to Lati...

The Republican Party Platform of 1912 : Imposition of Tariffs Ban on corporate contributions to political campaigns, directly or indirec...

On my way out to pick up some lunch I was listening to Glenn Beck on the radio [1] . He had on George Allen, who is running for the Senate i...

The best way to follow election day may be via Intrade, where traders buy and sells shares on a Obama or Romney victory. While it's un...

Klaus Jacob, Columbia University earth scientist , speaking from his flooded home -- raw, direct and kinda angry: via: @Revkin

Lost amidst my thorny thicket of CAPTCHA (sorry about that; I hate it too, but otherwise I get too much comment spam), Andrew Revkin sends a...

Here's (depending on how you see Sandy) is a clever simile, from Michael Mann, quoted  in the Los Angeles Times : "This may b...

Here are a couple of impressive pictures from NASA, that I've put side-by-side (or use NASA's "Image Comparison" tool at t...

Three weeks ago Bill McKibben was calling the weather "weird" because there weren't any storms: On the other hand, the ...

Andrew Revkin sent along some links to his previous coverage of the "blame-ologists": Hurricane Irene , Colorado fires , Texas fi...

A while back I mentioned Project Chariot -- a late-1950s proposal to carve out a harbor in an Alaskan town using nuclear weapons. Eli Kinti...

There are some stunning photographs in the 2012 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition . Most are of small structures of animals or ...

In summary (I hope), the problem with the Sandy discussion is two-fold, I think: The notion that it and the flooding and destruction was c...

Via Reason.com (U.S. annualized CO2 emissions from energy consumption have fallen 11.9% since their peak in January 2008 -- down 716 ...

Mark Fischetti at Scientific American lays out a case for why Hurricane Sandy was influenced by (but not due to) climate change (similar t...

After seeing these aerial photographs of the Jersey shore, I need to revise my thinking a bit. As I wrote on Tuesday, "storms happen,...

A few weeks ago David Rose of The Telegraph made a stir, claiming that global warming had been nil over the last 16 years. It was comple...