Out of the blue … Gleick on the road to Rio?

[Pls. see Update at end of this post -hro] I’m not a frequent tweeter … but I came across an interesting tweet a few minutes ago (although it was posted 6 hours before I saw it!): Climate Resistance is the blog of the U.K.’s Ben Pile, someone whose links I have confidence in following. Sure…

Science consensus: mass ­official craziness in policymaking

Yesterday’s edition of the Financial Post has two items of note. There’s a new book by retired historian, Harvey Levenstein: in Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry About What We Eat. First an excerpt from Adam McDowell’s April 20th review (all emphases below are mine -hro): Levenstein demonstrates in Fear of Food:…