Archive for November 3rd, 2009
The slow moving Senate debate over climate change offers an opportunity to revisit the fundamentals of climate change. While the physical science about natural and anthropogenic forcings is
Tags: climate change, Climate economics, global warming, JEL and climate change, master resource
Okay, so here we go. I am now beginning analysis on a quantitative survey of 3,300 completed surveys gathered over a 4-day period from last Friday through today. Part 2 of the analysis can be
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Okay, so here we go. I am now beginning analysis on a quantitative survey of 3,300 completed surveys gathered over a 4-day period from last Friday through today. Part 2 of the analysis can be
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Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany addressed Congress to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and offered some support on Iran.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Julio Friedmann, in collaboration with the Center for American Progress, the Asia Society Center and with partner Monitor Group, today released the
Well, my dog food calculations went awry, as Richard Reiss pointed out in the comments. I slipped a digit.To recall, there have been recent allegations that having a dog does as much damage as
Tags: borby-cue, carbon d'oxad, dawg, methine, Tixes
As African leaders prepare to present an ambitious proposal to industrialized countries for coping with climate change in the part of the world that is most vulnerable to its impacts, a new study
Deep-sea ecosystems occupying 60 percent of the Earth’s surface could be vulnerable to the effects of global warming, warn scientists.
Eli Rabett’s Five Fold Way to Deal with Climate Change (with a few changes)Adaptation, Amelioration, Conservation, Substitution, MitigationEli has never been a shy bunny, for example, Eli
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CBS news anchor Katie Couric interviewed Al Gore on her web program, “@katiecouric,” this week as the Goracle makes the media rounds flogging his new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the
Al Gore, the former American vice-president, yesterday hit back at critics who are labelling him the first “carbon billionaire” from his earnings as an investor in green technology,
Tags: climate change
Earlier today I posted a comment at Stoat’s “Oh no! More snarking” blog. Little I imagined how quickly the situation would evolve in the expected direction. This is my first
Tags: AGW, climate change, Climateprogress, Culture, Freedom, global warming, Joe Romm, Policy, politics, Stoat, William Connolley
A Conservative government would be likely to create additional financial incentives to encourage investment in low-carbon electricity, the shadow energy secretary has indicated
Tags: financial times
bonner-logo.jpg DeSmogBlog spoke this week to one of several groups impersonated by Big Coal to block the Waxman Markey Bill, and they are not happy. Lisa Maatz, director of public policy
Tags: Desmogger, Mitchell Anderson, News We made, Political Spin, US
Democratic efforts to push a sweeping climate change bill through the Senate this year suffered a severe set-back, when a Republican boycott delayed a key committee’s vote on sending the bill
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As candidate, Barack Obama wanted to deliver his soaring apologia for our nation at the Brandenburg Gate — the site of President Reagan’s famous plea to “tear down this wall” —
Following the example of the Maldives’ underwater cabinet meeting, Nepal is hosting a similar stunt on Mt. Everest: KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s cabinet will hold a meeting on
At the committee hearings on the Kerry-Boxer Bill last week, Democrats dutifully trotted out Fawn Sharp, president of the Quinault Indian Nation of Alaska, who assured us that climate change would
Just received via e-mail: Dear Colleague, The fifteenth UN Conference of Parties will take place in Copenhagen in one month. To ensure that the opinions of professionals who work in climate change
Tags: AGW, Business, climate change, Climate Change Decision Maker Survey, Copenhagen, Culture, global warming, GlobeScan, Policy, politics, science, survey
FT: Beijing has played climate cards beautifully An excerpt: In the frantic round of talks ahead of Copenhagen, meanwhile, China’s negotiators can take comfort from the fact that the real
Americans for Prosperity, the rightwing group that inflamed the US healthcare debate over the summer and is set to do the same on climate change.
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K — E –Y — Why? Because it’s good PR (even if it is a pointless environmental gesture): The Walt Disney Company announced Tuesday that it has made a $4 million investment
Christian Science Monitor: UN climate change talks in Barcelona have stalled as African countries say the world’s rich nations must do more to cut emissions. Talks over how to cut back
Those of you who are tired of seeing the bickering between the differing sides of the global warming debate might want to skip this–but others might be pleased to see that I have issues with
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Those of you who are tired of seeing the bickering between the differing sides of the global warming debate might want to skip this–but others might be pleased to see that I have issues with
Tags: Liberal Skeptic
A new international climate change treaty is very unlikely to be signed at the Copenhagen talks next month, Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, signalled, saying people had to be
Tags: financial times
The giant cash deal to save the planet – proposed by Europe for the forthcoming Copenhagen climate conference – will not be enough, the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, said today.
Tags: climate change
The following are video representations of the published RSS and UAH data. This time the videos include lower troposphere, mid troposphere and lower stratosphere versions. As before there are a
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No surprise here……….. Research from the Universities of Maryland and Colorado, in addition to Purdue University, has found that a majority of land-use changes in the continental
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Stephanie Baudains Al Gore was yesterday questioned on climate change policy by Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News, in an interview that coincided with the release of his