Archive for November 7th, 2009

Are CSIRO scientists still being gagged?

Back in 2006 it was revealed that scientists at the CSIRO had been forbidden from commenting on some impacts of climate change: JANINE COHEN: Kevin Hennessy is the coordinator of the CSIRO’s

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Back to green technologies that work

Malcolm Drake, frequent commenter (and voice of reason) here, has often posted on his experiences with solar power. He lives in southern Oregon (my two years in Portland were not blessed overly

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Rabett Run 2009-11-07 18:12:00

Eli is a Global Climate Change Decision MakerReaders of Rabett Run will be pleased to know that Eli has been officially recognized as an Official Climate Change Decision Maker by the United Nations

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Against Waxman-Markey

A few months ago when some scientists, notably Jim Hansen, and less notably myself, were expressing doubts about cap-and-trade, the more politically active of our acquaintance were urging us to

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About Those Bike-Sharing Programs to Save the Planet — By: Greg Pollowitz

The Boston Globe editors write: When officials in Paris arranged to have 20,000 pricey bicycles placed at bike-sharing stations around the city, they were conducting an experiment both on a

Climate rifts ahead of G20 talks

BBC: A key meeting of G20 finance ministers has begun in Scotland, amid division on the future of economic stimulus packages and paying for climate change. Ministers from the 20 leading economies

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Devi et al 2009

See comments introducing this extremely interesting article. UPDATE: Since some readers are having routing issues downloading/reading this Devi et al paper, I have mirrored it here (PDF) for your

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Hero

This thread is in replacement of the last. You may leave comments here about Kimberly only, at least this we can agree on. The last thread was a bit wild but we’ve said our piece. Please

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Another Correction from Upside Down Mann

After a year of stonewalling, Mann has published an update at his "grey" Supplementary Information (not yet reported at PNAS) in which he acknowledges an "error" in his figure

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Darling urges action on climate change

Chancellor Alistair Darling today urged the world’s most powerful finance ministers to treat climate change with the same urgency they gave to the world economic turmoil.

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An Obama-Enron Energy Tax Compromise? — By: Greg Pollowitz

Lindsay Graham, Joe Lieberman and the Chamber of Commerce walk into a bar . . . Washington Examiner: Even as a Senate global-warming bill remained in limbo with Democrats refusing to delay a