Archive for August, 2009
As the community of nations prepares to negotiate a climate treaty, the drumbeat for sharpening the details and a framework for helping poor nations implement it is quickening.
Greta Browne has encountered more than one global warming naysayer since last March, when she began a trek up the Eastern Seaboard to draw attention to climate change.
China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation
Oil, if not money, still makes the world go around. The question is how developed countries
Tags: Exploration, Oil Demand, Oil prices, WSJ
The New Yorker is not terribly impressed with Colin Beavan’s No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) concluded its analysis of the House climate Bill: … new coal bill without CCS beyond those that are already under construction are almost eliminated.
Tags: Climate Progress
Egyptian farmers who have lived off the land of the Nile Delta for generations face rising sea levels and one of the most severe threats of flooding and famine in the world
Tags: climate change, Editorial, Egypt, Environment, Farming, Flooding, Guardian, guardian.co.uk, World news
Traffic noise could be ruining the sex lives of urban frogs by drowning out the seductive croaks of amorous males, an Australian researcher said Friday. A well-projected and energetic croak is the
China’s BYD will bring an electric car to the U.S. next year. It might bring even more.
Tags: AP, Electric Cars, solar, Wind, WSJ
In 2 decades of wars for oil and resources, the fossil fuel industry has gotten a lot of bad press. But climate deniers are people too, and they need to feel good about themselves and what
Tags: Desmogblog
A new study suggests that sea level rises by the end of the century will mean Venice is inundated up to 250 times a year – and flood barriers may not be enough to save it
How many fake “citizen groups” fighting to destroy a livable climate and kill clean energy jobs can there be? First the coal lobby hired a top GOP voter-fraud company to run a massive
Tags: politics
A new study from MIT and Cal Tech looks at the impact of a warming climate on the frequency of extreme precipitation events. The research team’s results were clear and consistent in showing
Negotiations on emissions in the run-up to the UN climate summit show no sign of the radical change we need Limiting global warming to 2C above preindustrial levels is absolutely crucial, says the
Tags: Carbon emissions, climate change, Comment, Copenhagen climate change summit 2009, Environment, Green politics, Guardian, guardian.co.uk, politics, United Nations
• Denmark’s second city to vote on £8m greening package • Electric car chargers and home renovations top agenda• Council acknowledges voter apathy Denmark’s second largest city
Tags: Carbon emissions, Carbon footprints, climate change, Denmark, Energy, Energy efficiency, Environment, Guardian, guardian.co.uk
As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about…. Earth’s axial tilt (or obliquity) and its relation to the rotation axis and plane of orbit. Image from Wikipedia. Excerpts
Tags: climate_change, earth, WUWT
The trees were hanging in there until now. Many trees are suddenly turning brown in the relentless Texas heat/drought. Days which do not exceed 100F have been few and far between for two months
“The first great requisite of motive power is, that it shall be wholly at our command, to be exerted when, and where, and in what degree we desire. The wind, for instance, as a direct motive
Tags: master resource, Robert Bryce, Texas, Texas windpower, Wind power
The oil industry’s main lobby group issues a dire warning about climate legislation: It will force refineries to close, sending jobs overseas.
Tags: Gasoline, Politics and Policy, Refining, WSJ
• Denmark’s second city to vote on £8m greening package • Electric car chargers and home renovations top agenda• Council acknowledges voter apathy Denmark’s second largest
Tags: climate change, Denmark, Ecotowns, Environment, Guardian, guardian.co.uk
Climate activists are obsessed with greenhouse-gas emissions and concentrations. This is a mistake. The problem runs much deeper—and as long as we fail to tell the public the truth,
Tags: GRIST
NASA has several satellites that orbit the Earth one behind the other on the same track. They’re called the “A-Train” and one of the things they study is tropical cyclones. There
For the first time the United States shut down a fishery because of climate change rather than overfishing, setting a global bar for responsible and sustainable fishing.
With climate change and population growth threatening the viability of traditional farming, the time is right for the world to build the first vertical farm in an urban center.
Here are the papers that I mentioned explicitly during my talk this morning. Thanks to those of you at the meeting who have mentioned to me that you read the blog!
• Activists say memos point to culture of collusion • Whitehall worked with ‘key parties’ on 2007 event A government minister met the chief executive of the UK’s largest
Tags: Activism, BAA, climate change, Editorial, Energy, Environment, Freedom of information, Guardian, Kingsnorth, Labour, Police, politics, The Guardian, Travel
Putting Climate Camp on the map | open thread
Climate Camp begins on Wednesday at a top-secret London location. But where do you think it should be held? On Wednesday, green activists will swoop down on a secret London location to begin
Tags: Activism, Carbon emissions, climate change, Comment, Environment, Guardian, guardian.co.uk, London, Police, politics, Protest