Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Jay Shofet http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 25 May 2013 20:11:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 For the Bar Mitzvah of the New Century, A Grown-Up Agenda: Sustainability http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/for-the-bar-mitzvah-of-the-new-century-a-grown-up-agenda-sustainability/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/for-the-bar-mitzvah-of-the-new-century-a-grown-up-agenda-sustainability/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:12:05 +0000 Jay Shofet http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=95984 The young 21st century has entered its bar mitzvah year, and it’s time to grow up. 2013 has entered just as 2012 left us: with a jolting reminder we’re living on a warming planet where extreme weather events are becoming the new normal. The wreckage of superstorm Sandy  not yet cleared from the Jersey shore, [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/for-the-bar-mitzvah-of-the-new-century-a-grown-up-agenda-sustainability/feed/ 4 Our leaders must choose — climate silence or science http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/our-leaders-must-choose-climate-silence-or-climate-science/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/our-leaders-must-choose-climate-silence-or-climate-science/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:44:19 +0000 Jay Shofet http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=75154 Even before the landfall this week of super-storm Sandy, the total absence of climate change as an issue in the American presidential elections has been – given the summer we just endured – inexplicable. Recent months have provided palpable, painful and ample evidence that climate change is real, now and dangerous. In addition to 2012 [...]

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