Archive for November 13th, 2009
Editor Note: An environmental civil war is increasing in lockstep with the government’s forcing of industrial windpower. For previous posts against industrial wind parks by grassroot
Tags: Environmental Policy, Environmental Pressure Groups, grassroots environmentalism, industrial wind blight, master resource, wind NIMBYism, Wind power, wind power aesthetics
Brazil will try for a minimum reduction of 36 percent in its greenhouse gas emissions from projected levels in 2020, the government said Friday.
Global warming may deal the fatal blow to an animal that has dwelt in the Pacific for 150 million years.
The American health-care sector accounts for 8 percent of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions, according to a first-of-its-kind calculation of health care’s carbon footprint.
SCARY GRAPHSOMEWHAT SCARY GRAPHMOSTLY NONSCARY GRAPHScary plot from treehuggerLess scary plot from NSIDCNon-scary plot from Meteorology NewsAll show the SAME DATA.A nice presentation by CalTech
The comments in this Politico story on the climate bill may hint at whats to come, jobs, jobs, jobs and an inevitable focus on “climate light”: An aggressive White House push on jobs
Tell us what you think The public doesn’t understand the real issues of what is called “climate change” or “global warming” (The Climate Power Game), so what is the
Tags: Al Gore, climate change, Fashion, Guardian, Letters, The Guardian
Ross McKitrick has added his two cents on the criticisms raised by Gavin Schmidt at Real Climate, and they show what a tempest in a teapot this all is (bold added): AMPLIFICATION RATIOS: I was
GISS published the land/ocean anomaly for October 2009: 0.66C. This equals their anomaly for September. That is, it matches the value for September as published in November. The September anomaly
Tags: Data Comparisons, GISS, Lucia
John Mashey and Arthur Smith were right (and Eli wrong)It is always tempting to jump to conclusions before RTFR, but in some case the conclusion is available before the report so Eli has a bit of
Tags: Eli Rabett
Last week the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) published a concise guide for “scientists, journalists, educators, political aides, and the interested public” on the
Tags: Adaptation, Climate Science, Columbia, Communicating Climate, Decision Science, NRDC Report
Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is losing mass at an accelerating rate, according to a new study.
From Physics World: APS rejects plea to alter stance on climate change The American Physical Society (APS) has “overwhelmingly rejected” a proposal from a group of 160 physicists to
Tags: Climate News, WUWT
Experimental infrared resonance absorption line profiles are compared with results from T-matrix theory calculations for several mineral components of atmospheric dust (illite, kaolinite,
Tags: JGR
We investigated the utility of Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) column CO2 observations in surface CO2 flux estimation. We addressed two key issues in carbon flux estimation from
Tags: JGR
With her recent appointment to the National Academies of Science’s prestigious Climate Research Committee, IRI scientist Lisa Goddard hopes to continue fostering connections between climate
Tags: Climate Science, Columbia
And Sen. Kerry is ready for a do-over. Sean Higgins at Investor’s Business Daily writes: Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a close ally of the Obama administration,
Teaching 16-year-olds the basics of driving is a tall order. But now politicians want to indoctrinate student drivers with a green catechism, too. My Detroit News colleague Manny Lopez reports
Energy industry well acquainted with Finance panel members Oil and gas companies and electric utilities over the past two decades have poured $8 million into the campaign coffers of lawmakers on
Tags: Climate Progress
The Chamber of Commerce recently bowed to pressure from big member companies and cravenly pleaded for some form of global-warming legislation. It defended this in e-mails and private meetings with
Nature: An Australian researcher involved in a censorship controversy will be allowed to publish a paper critical of cap-and-trade systems for controlling carbon emissions — but only after
Tags: Climate Ark, climate politics | Pacific/Oceania | Australia
Greenwire: The European Union projects that it will meet emission targets set by the Kyoto Protocol — but only with accounting help from carbon offsets and emissions trading, the European
Tags: Climate Ark, climate targets creative accounting Europe | Europe |
United Press International: A Jordanian academic has predicted that Israel will go to war with neighboring Lebanon and Egypt to get their water. An Arab water expert warns that Yemen’s
Reuters: Brazil could earn up to $16 billion per year to fund emissions reductions and Amazon rainforest protection by selling forest carbon credits, a Brazilian carbon markets expert said in an
Tags: carbon rainforest finance possibilities | South/Central America/Caribbean | Brazil, Climate Ark
ScienceDaily: Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The
Tags: Climate Ark, climate change warming record high temperatures | North America | United States
ScienceDaily: Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is losing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a
Tags: Climate Ark, Greenland ice cap melting faster | North America | Greenland
redOrbit: Bolivia’s Chacaltaya range has succumbed to the precipitous melting of glaciers, AFP reported. The site was once home to the highest ski-run in the world as it was perched on the
Tags: Climate Ark, glaciers melt | South/Central America/Caribbean | Bolivia
BBC: On the eve of the Copenhagen summit on climate change BBC East speaks to Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Failure to control emissions of greenhouse
Tags: climate affluent caused | Europe | United Kingdom, Climate Ark