• Lighting and Liberty

    Updated: 2012-01-31 13:29:13
    On January 1, 2012, the energy efficient light bulb standards of the Energy Independence and Security Act became law. The standard gave light bulb manufacturers until 2012 to produce light bulbs that used 25 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs, which waste 90 percent of the energy they consume on waste heat. Lighting companies began [...]

  • Bobcats to face more hunting, trapping

    Updated: 2012-01-30 22:00:09
    With bobcat numbers rebounding in New York, the state Department of Environmental Conservation is offering a plan to open up new parts of the state from the Capital Region west to Lake Erie to hunting and trapping of the elusive felines. Here is the TU story from last week.

  • A Flawed Global Warming Analysis in the Wall Street Journal

    Updated: 2012-01-30 19:15:51
    Last week, The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by a few scientists and engineers who believe man-made climate change will have less impact on the environment than the vast majority of the scientific community has concluded it will. Debate is normal and necessary in science — it occurred even on such questions as [...]

  • The AR4 attribution statement

    Updated: 2012-01-29 16:22:30
    What the IPCC AR4 attribution statement meant for the anthropogenic contribution to recent global warming.

  • California Holds Lead in Clean Car Derby

    Updated: 2012-01-28 00:26:43
    Air Board adopts landmark rules to curb emissions. Continue reading →

  • This weekend on Capital Green Scene UPDATED

    Updated: 2012-01-27 22:33:20
    Last week, the largest single development for the Adirondack Park ever approved by the state Adirondack Park Agency cleared the board by a 10-1 vote. That was after seven years of review on a project that will cover more than 6,000 acres, with hundreds of new homes, 29 luxurious so-called “great camps” on large forest [...]

  • Coming Out of the Climate Change Closet

    Updated: 2012-01-27 18:37:19
    So much for consensus. For years, climate change cultists have attempted to shut down public discourse over global warming by assuring us that “the debate is over,” that scientists are in lockstep agreement that Man is steam-frying his own planet. That was always bunk, of course.  For one, if the scientific debate was really over, [...]

  • Weather and Climate Change

    Updated: 2012-01-27 00:45:10
    In December, Grant Foster and Stephan Rahmstorf published a paper in Environmental Research Letters that provided a new analysis of earth’s temperature through 2010. The team reported on the 5 available global temperature measurements for land and ocean and then excluded short-term variability due to ENSO, solar cycles and volcanic eruptions. The report concluded that [...]

  • Time, Newsweek Bury Keystone

    Updated: 2012-01-26 17:55:01
    Just published at nergy Tribune, the ouston Chronicle (Fuel Fix) nd at anada Free Press he above article revealing Time and Newsweek's' PR work' for the president in the upcoming election race. For the full article o here. 

  • Are Solar Panels at Wind Farms the Next Big Thing?

    Updated: 2012-01-26 13:04:52
    Yesterday I had lunch with Carol Murphy of ACENY. We were discussing trends in renewable development in New York. In general, development of wind, one of the largest renewable resources in New York behind Hydro, is down. One bright spot is the potential siting of solar panels at wind farms. This trend was confirmed by [...]

  • State of the Union Address: A Nation "Built to Last" on Clean Energy

    Updated: 2012-01-25 19:45:53
    President Obama delivered his State of the Union Address last night, and energy issues played a starring role in the speech.  Here are some of the comments that caught my attention:  The President drew some firm lines in the sand. The address was a strong defense of the importance of clean energy to America’s long-term economic prosperity. The [...]

  • Analysis by country of fossil fuel burning-based Carbon Debt and Carbon Credit

    Updated: 2012-01-25 17:16:37
    Fossil fuel burning yielding the greenhouse gas (GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major component of man-made global warming. In relation to carbon pollution from the burning of fossil fuels, Net Carbon Debt is equal to the Historical Carbon Debt …

  • New federal planting maps show changing climate

    Updated: 2012-01-25 17:01:53
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released its new plant hardiness zone maps, which show where certain plants can be grown within the constraint of low temperatures. And the map, which USDA last did in 1990, shows that the U.S. is gradually warming…. Here is today’s story in the TU… More of the state is [...]

  • DEC aims fine at gas driller over water pollution from PA

    Updated: 2012-01-25 15:59:39
    The state Department of Environmental Conservation wants  to fine a Buffalo-area natural gas driller $187,500 for water pollution coming into Allegany State Park from company gas wells and roads across the border in Pennsylvania. The proposed fine includes a $75,000 penalty against the company for allegedly failing to fix surface drainage problems around its gas [...]

  • Feds Likely to Catch Up to California on Fuel Economy Standards

    Updated: 2012-01-25 00:51:14
    The EPA is pushing new nationwide fuel economy standards that would bring the nation up to California's strict standards. Continue reading →

  • How was the State of the Union

    Updated: 2012-01-25 00:47:07
    It’s hard to tell, but I think it was a missed opportunity. His speech focused on reforming education and fostering innovation, but he also advocated opening up our shorelines for oil drilling and opening up federal lands for clean energy. Without the details of what any of that means, it’s hard to tell whether this [...]

  • Super-fracking & the Next Shale Gale

    Updated: 2012-01-24 22:00:25
    Just published, this should frighten the "environmental Taliban"....go here or the full article. 

  • Coffee House Goes for “Zero” Carbon in Your Cup

    Updated: 2012-01-24 19:48:45
    An Oakland cafe designed to have a “zero” carbon footprint. Continue reading →

  • California’s Rangeland Could Take a Hit from Climate Change

    Updated: 2012-01-24 07:45:40
    Already squeezed economically, ranchers face a new threat from the changing climate. Continue reading →

  • “Vision Prize”, an online poll of scientists about climate risk

    Updated: 2012-01-23 01:51:34
    A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University is trying to get a better understanding of the views of earth scientists regarding various climate change topics. They have set up an ongoing poll to do this, called Vision Prize. It’s a short (10 question) poll, covering topics like the rate of CO2 increase, predicted future [...]

  • Grist

    Updated: 2012-01-21 08:22:20
    Environmental News, Commentary, Advice

  • Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate

    Updated: 2012-01-20 21:09:42
    We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels from their prices. When governments actually subsidize their use, they take the distortion even further. Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly …

  • Nerd Loops and Climate Change

    Updated: 2012-01-20 13:32:37
    This past weekend This American Life had a story about a 15 year old girl whom Ira Glass met at the Glenn Beck Rally last year.  In conversation it evolved that the girl did not believe in Climate Change.  So, Ira Glass had the head of Science Curriculum for the State of Colorado get on [...]

  • This Weekend on Capital Green Scene UPDATED

    Updated: 2012-01-19 21:57:06
    Our guest will be Nick Conrad, president of the not-for-profit Rensselaer Land Trust. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the trust protects open space, farm land and forests with willing private landowners in Rensselaer County. It also owns several nature preserves, and acquired its first urban preserve in South Troy. *** UPDATED *** Hear the [...]

  • The Covert 'War' In Iran

    Updated: 2012-01-17 16:57:52
    The story behind the recent spate of killings and bombings targeting high-profile targets and energy infrastructure in Iran. Go here. 

  • The dog is the weather

    Updated: 2012-01-17 13:09:02
    Update January 27: There is also another recent dog-based animations from Victoria (southeast Australia) explaining some of the key drivers of our climate and how some are changing. A TV series that ran on Norwegian TV (NRK) last year included a simple and fun cartoon that demonstrates some important concepts relative to weather and climate: [...]

  • Open Climate 101 Online

    Updated: 2012-01-16 13:41:08
    Almost 3000 non-science major undergraduates at the University of Chicago have taken PHSC13400, Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, since Ray Pierrehumbert and I (David Archer) first developed it back in 1995. Since the publication of the textbook for the class in 2005 (and a much-cleaned-up 2nd edition now shipping), enrollment has gone through the roof, [...]

  • Not a Swindle - 2 Jun 2008

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:33:02
    I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling slightly confused by the contradictory newspaper headlines about global warming. These massive headlines overshadow other important green issues nd...-- Delivered by Feed43 service

  • An economist for the future - 14 Mar 2008

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:33:00
    The great American mechanical engineer Frederick W. Taylor once said “It’s easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.” I must confess I’ve often...-- Delivered by Feed43 service

  • The Great Global Warming Swindle - 20 Jul 2007

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:32:56
    Last night I attended the Australian screening of a rather strange �documentary� called The Great Global Warming Swindle. This film contains a bizarre mixture of half-truths, misinformation...-- Delivered by Feed43 service

  • New Website Lets You Find the Largest Sources of Climate Pollution in Your Area

    Updated: 2012-01-11 18:11:41
    I’m very excited about a brand new website that will let me – and all Americans – learn about sources of climate pollution in my community and across America. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled the website today. The consumer-friendly web platform has new greenhouse gas emissions data that will help Americans work together [...]

  • An online model of methane in the atmosphere

    Updated: 2012-01-11 13:35:15
    I’ve put together an easy-to-play-with online model of methane in the atmosphere. I’m going to use it for teaching along with the rest of the Understanding the Forecast webmodels, but it was designed to be relevant to the issue of abrupt new methane burps as we’ve been ruminating about lately on Realclimate. The model runs [...]

  • Much ado about methane

    Updated: 2012-01-04 18:41:45
    Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, but it also has an awesome power to really get people worked up, compared to other equally frightening pieces of the climate story. What methane are we talking about? The largest methane pools that people are talking about are in sediments of the ocean, frozen into hydrate or clathrate [...]

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