Archive for November 2nd, 2009
The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is currently the largest cap-and-trade scheme in the world. Covering 11,500 installations and countries with a combined population of around 500
Tags: ETS problems, EU cap-and-trade, EU Emissions Trading Scheme, European Union (EU) Cap-and-Trade, master resource, Matthew Sinclair
Study gives clearer picture of how land-use changes affect U.S. climate from a Purdue University press release Researchers say regional surface temperatures can be affected by land use, suggesting
Tags: Land use land cover change, WUWT
Large-scale distributions of two important nutrient pools — dissolved organic nitrogen and dissolved organic phosphorus have been systematically mapped for the first time over the Atlantic
Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by the Naval
A rocket carrying the European Space Agency’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite blasted off successfully today. SMOS is the first-ever satellite to attempt to measure ocean salinity
Back in my college days on a whim, a friend and I made an electronic scale from a quad strain gauge taken from a small yet very high precision printing press. The guage was attached to a 0.20
Tags: Uncategorized
New Model StrawmenAccording to the Wikipedia, strawman can be wished into existence byPresenting a misrepresentation of the opponent’s position and then refuting it,, thus giving the
Tags: Eli Rabett
Ecuador’s offer to refrain from drilling for oil in the Amazon rainforest in exchange for money could be a novel way of combatting climate change
Bob Tisdale writes: NINO3.4 SST Anomalies Make A Surge NINO3.4 SST Anomalies have reached 1.5 deg C for the week centered on October 28, 2009. http://i37.tinypic.com/nzoyvn.png NINO3.4 SST
Tags: Sea Surface Temperature, WUWT
Wow. That's my first reaction to the responses we've seen so far to Examiner.com's First Annual Global Warming Survey. Just–wow. In less than three days more than 3,000 of you
Tags: Liberal Skeptic
Wow. That's my first reaction to the responses we've seen so far to Examiner.com's First Annual Global Warming Survey. Just–wow. In less than three days more than 3,000 of you
Tags: Liberal Skeptic
The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro – the highest mountain in Africa – may soon be falling on bare ground following a study showing that its ice cap is destined to disappear entirely within 20
Tags: climate change
super_freakonomics.JPG At the risk of piling on, we’d like to add our voice to those who are disappointed by the clumsy unprofessionalism of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s
Tags: Ken Cladeira, Lowell Wood, Nathan Myhrvold, SuperFreakonomics, US
Gore started this. Note to journalists everywhere: IT’S THE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION STUPID! See this article to understand why linking Kilimanjaro glacier retreat to small changes in global
Tags: glaciers, GLOC, Land use land cover change, WUWT
This morning, Fred Krupp, EDF's president, gave the following remarks at the Point Carbon conference in New York City: Think for a moment about the speech you’d expect to hear from an
Tags: International, Senate
Thou shall not emit CO2: Al’s Gore’s much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global
Obama Putting $3.4 Bn Toward a ‘Smart’ Power Grid, Associated Press President Obama pledges $3.4 bn in government support for 100 different research projects in “smart” grid engineering,
Tags: Australia, Climate News, Columbia, energy proportional computing, News Roundup, rafael correa, Smart Grid
I keep getting requests to comment on the recent GRL paper by Lindzen and Choi (2009), who computed how satellite-measured net (solar + infrared) radiation in the tropics varied with surface
Tags: Blog Article, Roy Spencer
Fox News: GAO: Full Recoup of Government Investment in GM, Chrysler Unlikely
An online course provided by the National Weather Service states that while carbon dioxide has been linked to global warming, there is no evidence to back the claim up. The series of lessons on
Tags: Debate, global warming, Reports and Papers
Thanks to the University of Bremen in Germany, we can get a daily update of the sea ice concentration across the Arctic and Antarctic. Here are the latest images from Friday and from exactly one
Tags: acuweather, science
Last week, I noted how eliminating meat from your diet can help fight global warming. This week brings another installment of “Simple, Stupid Steps to Save the Planet:” Get rid of
The mined fuel is abundant and cheap, but dealing with emissions will be costly
Tags: financial times
Nature inspires technology as an engineer and an ecologist have teamed to develop robots that use advanced materials to swim like fish to probe underwater environments. Robotic fish — perhaps
From her Facebook page: As the vice president knows, I have always advocated an all-of-the-above approach to American energy independence. Among other things, my alternative energy goal for Alaska
Scientists and economists agree we need to more than halve emissions by mid-century. This means every major decision – every investment decision or new policy decision – needs to be a low
Tags: climate change
Isotopic measurements performed on fossil land snail shells found in ancient soils on the subtropical eastern Canary Islands resulted in oxygen isotope ratios that suggest the Spanish archipelago
Great news. And how is this news greeted by the Left? But of course, an e-mail blast from Democrats.com pressuring Ford on global warming: Subject: Ford Must Quit the Chamber of