The Blackboard

The Green Energy Reporter has posed an interview of Andy Revkin discussing his reflections on Copenhagen along with his ideas about possible successful paths toward lowering emissions. One interesting (to me) QA is: GER: Did you get a new sense of hope from Copenhagen? AR: I don’t think, in the end, that’s where you’re going [...]

I guess one of the African delegations really, really didn’t like the Copenhagen Accord. However, critics warned the “Copenhagen Accord”, the result of two weeks of negotiations in the Danish capital, was full of holes and lacked a timetable – and environment agencies branded it toothless and a failure. One African delegation likened the deal [...]

Here is Joe Romm’s reaction to reading the announcement no climate agreement will issue from Copenhagen: Some very good news on the international front, as the UK Guardian reports today: I knew that people like Andrew_KY who oppose action thought delay in obtaining a climate agreement was good news. And, it turns out Joe Romm, [...]

The Guardian is reporting that leaders have pretty well figured out they are not going to hammer out a binding climate deal in the upcoming meeting in Copenhagen. Here’s the current target for the agreement: “Given the time factor and the situation of individual countries we must, in the coming weeks, focus on what is [...]

Those following the fishtale of m=11 smoothing to test the TAR projection will be interested to learn that Stefan Rahmstorf confirms what we, in the more “excitable” part of the blogosphere, suspected: He has abandoned m=11 year smoothing to test observations against models. He now uses m=15 years. JeanS shows the difference in trend projections [...]

Monckton’s June Missive invokes “Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies”. So it is that the intellectual descendents of Goebbels are chained to the work-benches of their spin-factories, churning out an interminable series of colorful fantasies, each repeating and magnifying its predecessor, yet all having no point of contact with reality or truth. As usual, the Viscount’s [...]

Have you downloaded “The Synthesis Report” yet? You know, the one from the “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges, Decisions” (aka, “The Copehagen Meeting”. ) Naturally, I flipped through to read their comparison of observations to temperatures. After all, annual average temperature this century have fallen mostly below the projections from the AR4 (i.e. the most [...]