Archive for November 6th, 2009
This article, “Energy to Spare” by David Warren, published in the Ottawa Citizen on November 4, 2009, says much in few words. Energy reality is that the sun’s work over the ages
Tags: David Warren, energy from the sun, master resource, Ottawa Citizen, Renewable energy
Detroit — In rolling out its plan for the future of Chrysler on Wednesday, Fiat executives dutifully stressed that the “New Chrysler” would be more fuel efficient — hailing the
In Australia, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has given the most chilling speech (PDF here) with respect to open policy debate that I have ever heard from a leader of a democratic country. The focus of
Apparently, I’m not the only one who has qualms about a plan to pay $1.5 billion for Chinese wind turbines to go up in West Texas. Sen. Chuck Schumer isn’t a happy camper.
Greenwire: An Energy Department-sponsored carbon dioxide sequestration project in Mississippi has become the first in the nation to inject more than 1 million tons of the greenhouse gas into an
Tags: carbon sequestration test | North America | United States, Climate Ark
Agence France-Presse: An aircraft dubbed ‘Solar Impulse’, HB-SIA prototype, is rolled out of a hangar for an initial series of stationary tests involving engines and electromagnetic
Physorg: In the middle of a day filled with a stream of information-packed PowerPoint displays and alarming projections of what the future holds for our planet and our civilization, Judith
Tags: Climate Ark, climate politics geoeingineering | Worldwide/General |
Physorg: The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last
Tags: Antarctic climate past | Arctic/Antarctic |, Climate Ark
Physorg: Predictions made over the last decade about the impacts of climate change on biodiversity may be exaggerated, according to a paper published in the journal Science. Oxford University
Tags: Climate Ark, climate biodiversity persist | Worldwide/General |
BBC: The potentially fatal dengue fever – once rare in south Asia – has regained a foothold in the region, reaching almost epidemic levels. Some scientists say climate change is to
Tags: Climate Ark, climate disease dengue | Worldwide/General |
The following two Google maps show Taimyr and Yamal on consistent scales, together with Schweingruber sites in the area. The Taimyr chronology in Briffa 2000, as you may recall, not only
Tags: Briffa, climate audit, SteveMcIntyre, Yamal and Urals
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field Things are winding down here in Barcelona. The latest negotiating text is out, and everybody is waiting for the final plenary session. Negotiators
New research from NASA suggests that the bulk of nitrogen oxide (NOx) produced during lightning storms ends up significantly higher in the atmosphere, and thus has a stronger impact on ozone and
Tags: acuweather, science
More than 1.2 billion lightning flashes occur around the world every year. Each of those billion lightning flashes produces a puff of nitrogen oxide gas (NOx) that reacts with sunlight and other
Keith Kloor All hope for Copenhagen seems lost. According to The Times: “A world treaty on climate change will be delayed by up to a year and is likely to be watered down because countries with
Tony Hayward, chief executive of BP, writes in today’s Washington Post: Lower-carbon future? Try natural gas. The public debate on climate change can seem beguilingly simple: alternative
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Tags: Blog Article, Roy Spencer
Times Online: All hope is lost for Copenhagen climate treaty, British officials say An excerpt: A world treaty on climate change will be delayed by up to a year and is likely to be watered down
Historian Paul Johnson, writing in Forbes: People say that the election of Barack Obama and his pursuit of radical measures — from state-run health care to unilateral nuclear disarmament
Scientists in Washington, D.C. are reporting laboratory evidence supporting the possibility that some of Earth’s oil and natural gas may have formed in a way much different than the