Archive for November 16th, 2009
Last week I summarized the economics literature on the impact of climate change on human well-being. Or more accurately, Richard Tol reviewed the economics literature for the Spring 2009 issue of
Tags: climate change, Climate economics, economists and climate change, Institute for Policy Integrity, master resource, Michael Livermore, Richard Tol
In case you missed it, Bjørn Lomborg from yesterday’s WSJ: Ethiopia, Malnutrition and Climate Change — Focusing on global warming at the expense of food aid is immoral. Global
Chalk up another effect of climate change: it’s getting windier over Lake Superior.
I finally transcribed and cut video from the Charlie Rose interview. SuperFreaks Retrench: ‘It’s Harder To Know’ Whether Global Warming Is ‘Man-Created’ <[link]> Appearing on
A group of researchers has found that any future increases in precipitation would be unlikely to compensate for the declines in forage quality that accompany projected temperature increases.
A dangerous level of carbon dioxide and methane gas haunts Lake Kivu, the freshwater lake bordering Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The volatile mixture at the bottom of the lake could
Around the Coffee Pot On the one hand here is a continuation of Eli’s post just the other day on the Climate Concern Troll Twins vs Climate McCarthy, on the other a comment on recent general
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Question of the day: Will GM ultimately pay back all of the taxpayers’ loans? The NY Times story has one of the true glass-is-half-full headlines of our times: G.M., Citing Progress,
Tags: politics
rustneversleeps: I could not agree more with your point about focusing on total CO2, i.e. the area under the curve approach. In fact, when I wrote about this on The Cost of Energy on August 3
Plans to be discussed at the forthcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen to cut deforestation in developing countries could save some species from extinction but inadvertently increase the risk
My attention has just be called to a list of “450 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of “Man-Made” Global Warming.” A quick count shows that they have 21 papers on
re: "how do we get the special-environmental-interest s people on board to put their energies toward raising awareness on climate change?" Land use mitigation projects, i.e., projects
Two main mechanisms can potentially explain the spread in the magnitude of global warming simulated by climate models: deep ocean heat uptake and climate feedbacks. Here, we show that deep oceanic
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One science-for-hire data analysis trick called out by David Michaels in Doubt Is Their Product, is "diluting" an alarming result by burying its data among less alarming data. We
I don’t normally get to the obits page of the Washington Post, so it was only by chance that I happened to catch the obituary today for Tom Graff, who died at 65 from thyroid cancer a few
Ban Ki-Moon tells delegates at the World Food Summit in Rome the world cannot achieve food security without tackling global warming
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toilet money.JPG The International Energy Agency (IEA) has announced in its latest World Energy Outlook that every year of delayed action to address climate change will add $500 Billion to
Tags: american coalition for clean coal electricity (ACCCE), American Petroleum Institute, chamber of commerce, climate change, climate denial industry, COP15, Copenhagen Climate Summit, global warming, International Energy Agency, James Hoggan, World Energy OUtlook
Rising temperatures are boosting the growth of the oldest trees on Earth, but the adolescent growth spurt may – or may not – benefit the climate, say scientists
top ten.JPG Everyone loves Top Ten lists, so here’s a few that our book Climate Cover Up has made since it launched a few weeks back: Best in BC: Being that Jim and Richard are both
Video of Lord Monckton Warning of Copenhagen Climate Treaty Exceeds 3.5 Million Views in a Single Month Lord Monckton giving a presentation – photo by Derek Warnecke Minneapolis –
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Scotsman: VENEZUELA’S president Hugo Chavez has said he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to "bomb clouds" to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public
Tags: Climate Ark, climate drought engineer | South/Central America/Caribbean | Venezuela
ScienceDaily: Plans to be discussed at the forthcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen to cut deforestation in developing countries could save some species from extinction but inadvertently
Tags: carbon forests biodiversity | Worldwide/General |, Climate Ark
Daily mail: Climate catastrophe: Rapid climate change was the subject of the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow It took just six months for a warm and sunny Europe to be engulfed in ice,
Tags: Climate Ark, climate subjuect of Hollywood | North America | United States
Associated Press: A look at some other pests that are benefiting or could benefit from global warming: _Ticks that transmit Lyme disease are spreading northward into Sweden and Canada, once too
Tags: Climate Ark, climate pest disease warms | Worldwide/General |
Guardian: Confirming yesterday what had already been apparent for some months, Barack Obama and other leaders yesterday said that time had run out to secure a legally binding climate deal at
Tags: Climate Ark, Copenhage Obama failure | North America | United States
Independent (UK): Can the world reach a new deal to combat climate change without the world’s richest country, the world’s sole superpower? Such is the question looming over the
Tags: Climate Ark, Copenhagen Obama politics | North America | United States
Independent (UK): Wildlife campaigners have made "a deal with the devil" in a bid to save the orang-utan from being driven into extinction. They have teamed up with the palm-oil industry,
Tags: Climate Ark, climate rainforest oil palm orangutan | East/South-East Asia |
Response: The European emissions trading scheme is now a success
It was not the market that failed, but the policies that governed how it worked Your article is profoundly disheartening (Carbon trading is useless, says Friends of the Earth report, 5 November).
Tags: Business, Carbon footprints, Carbon offsetting, climate change, Comment, Emissions trading, Environment, Green politics, Guardian, politics, science, The Guardian, UK news, World news