Politics, Climate Change and Human Rights in the Maldives
Updated: 2012-03-31 02:04:21
The Island President tells the story of the former president's fight for climate action Continue reading →- The Island President tells the story of the former president's fight for climate action Continue reading →
Climate scientists It’s basically too late to stop warming Grist
Updated: 2012-03-30 12:03:36
: Skip to content Skip to site navigation Support independent green news Donate Grist wants you for COO Climate Energy Food Cities Living Biz Technology Point Nemo’ is the farthest you can get from land without being in outer space Critical List : EPA to release draft rules for power plant emissions Keystone XL’s doppelgangers Comments 26 Mar 2012 3:58 PM Climate scientists : It’s basically too late to stop warming By Christopher Mims Photo by Akuppa John . Wigham If you like cool weather and not having to club your neighbors as you battle for scarce resources , now’s the time to move to Canada , because the story of the 21st century is almost written , reports Reuters Global warming is close to being irreversible , and in some cases that ship has already . sailed Scientists have beenPrepare for the Worst Now
Updated: 2012-03-29 20:01:21The IPCC just released a 594 page report on the managing the risks of climate change. The conclusion of the report is that extreme weather events will become more frequent as the climate warms. To avoid the worst effects of these changes, everyone should start developing mitigation plans. This will allow the developed world to [...]Apps for Energy Challenge
Updated: 2012-03-29 19:48:22Calling all software developers. Yesterday the Department of Energy announced the “Apps for Energy Challenge”. The challenge is a contest to see who can come up with the best apps to help companies use data collected by utilities to help businesses save money and conserve energy. The announcement of the challenge can be found here.Why De-nuking Iran Won't Mean WW3 - or An Oil Crisis
Updated: 2012-03-29 15:40:39
HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor MY NEW E-BOOK JUST PUBLISHED March 2012 Power Politics reveals that pretty much everything we have been told about energy just isn't true . Available now . Click to go to Amazon Kindle Store UK just 3.23 or Kindle Store US just 4.99 and other E-publishers soon . nbsp An excellent , readable book for anyone who wants to know the real implications of climateThe IPCC SREX: the report is finally out.
Updated: 2012-03-29 12:13:20Some of us have been waiting quite a while now, especially since the ‘road tour’ meant to present the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation starting in Oslo on January 24th this year. The summary for policymakers (SPM) was released already in 18 November 2011 [...]EPA’s “Carbon Pollution” Standard for Power Plants: Four Ways Weird
Updated: 2012-03-29 01:19:32
Yesterday, EPA proposed its first-ever “carbon pollution standard rule” for power plants. The rule would establish a new source performance standard (NSPS) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil-fuel electric generating units (EGUs). The proposed standard is an emission rate of 1,000 lbs CO2 per megawatt hour. About 95% of all natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plants already meet the standard (p. 115). No existing coal [...]California Delays First Cap & Trade Permit Auction
Updated: 2012-03-28 18:37:30
State will start with a dry run while questions remain about how to spend the money. Continue reading →Survey: Waning Support for Alternative Energy Among Westerners
Updated: 2012-03-28 02:00:14
Meanwhile, support for mining and drilling has gone up. Continue reading →EPA's Historic Proposal to Limit Carbon Pollution from Power Plants
Updated: 2012-03-27 22:38:12
Today we are making history. Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first-ever nationwide emission standards to limit dangerous carbon pollution from new coal- and gas-burning power plants. Today we take the first critically important step towards addressing the climate-destabilizing pollution emitted by power plants. Today we take a vital step towards protecting Americans’ health [...]EPA’s New Carbon Rule Doesn’t Do Much in CA
Updated: 2012-03-27 21:20:24
California enacted similar limits to pollution from power plants in 2006 Continue reading →EPA Announces the Coal Industry’s Death
Updated: 2012-03-27 20:24:25
“This was the moment,” candidate Obama proclaimed after winning his party’s nomination, “when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” When he assumed office, President Obama attempted to act on that promise and regulate greenhouse gas emissions. On June 26, 2009, the House of Representatives passed the American [...]Scientific American Approaches Its Own Tipping Point on Global Warming…
Updated: 2012-03-27 20:12:10
…namely, milking the phrase like there’s no tomorrow. To wit, see the results below of a Google search for the terms “Scientific American” and “tipping point”:Coastal Erosion in SF Prompts Planning and Debate
Updated: 2012-03-27 03:06:15
City planners are looking at ways to reconfigure the city's western edge Continue reading →Wet Enough For Ya? California Precip Makes Sprint for the Finish Line
Updated: 2012-03-26 22:40:59
The rainy weather has helped, but the state's still in deficit for the year. Continue reading →A Nickel Here, A Nickel There
Updated: 2012-03-26 21:19:42Over at the Capital, the budget process really is winding down. The I’s are being dotted, the T’s are being crossed. The Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) will hold at Governor Cuomo’s proposed level of $134 million. This is very positive, although it is the same amount as last year. The $134 million level was the [...]Extremely hot
Updated: 2012-03-26 09:29:54
By Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou One claim frequently heard regarding extreme heat waves goes something like this: ”Since this heat wave broke the previous record by 5 °C, global warming can’t have much to do with it since that has been only 1 °C over the 20th century”. Here we explain why we find [...]At the Blunt End of the Hockey Stick: Q&A with Michael Mann
Updated: 2012-03-25 06:00:22
A reluctant combatant has learned to embrace the role. Continue reading →UPDATED *** This Weekend on Capital Green Scene
Updated: 2012-03-23 20:49:49Our guest this week will be Carm Basile, executive director of the Capital District Transportation Authority, which keeps the public buses rolling. Remember back in the summer of 2008, when the price of gasoline went to more than $4 a gallon? Suddenly, everyone wanted to ride CDTA buses, and the authority tried to meet that [...]Antarctica: New Evidence Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age Were Global
Updated: 2012-03-23 19:12:51
Did the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA) occur only in Europe, or were they global in scope? This is a hotly debated question, because it is harder to make the case that the warmth of recent decades is “unusual,” ”extraordinary,” or “unprecedented” and therefore something to stress about if global climate oscillates naturally between warming and cooling [...]Data presentation: A trend lesson
Updated: 2012-03-23 16:51:53
I just came across an interesting way to eliminate the impression of a global warming. A trick used to argue that the global warming had stopped, and the simple recipe is as follows: Cut off parts of the measurements and only keep the last 17 years. Plot all the months of these 17 years to [...]Why Shell Oil Supports California’s Climate Change Legislation
Updated: 2012-03-23 00:24:00
Shell CEO is pro-AB 32, but stands by taking legal action against environmentalists in Alaska Continue reading →Telegraph Columnist Delingpole Recommends 'Power Politics'
Updated: 2012-03-22 14:16:33HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor MY NEW E-BOOK JUST PUBLISHED March 2012 Power Politics reveals that pretty much everything we have been told about energy just isn't true . Available now . Click to go to Amazon Kindle Store UK just 3.23 or Kindle Store US just 4.99 and other E-publishers soon . nbsp An excellent , readable book for anyone who wants to know the real implications of climateHow Much Carbon Do California’s Forests Hold?
Updated: 2012-03-22 00:52:05
It's a tough number to nail down, but a federal program is zeroing in on it Continue reading →Bike and Cars
Updated: 2012-03-21 00:17:20As we enjoy this fabulous weather, more and more people are on bicycles. My husband is a cyclist. He is also a husband, father of three, and generally great guy. He has been hit once, had a car door opened in his path twice (resulting in head over heels falls) and had numerous near misses. [...]Iran and the Oil Scarcity Myth
Updated: 2012-03-20 17:55:39The received wisdom in th emedia is that an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities will ignote both a 'conflagration across the Middle East' and create a global oil shortage. WRONG ... on both counts - and here we explain why...
Go here for the full article.Updating the CRU and HadCRUT temperature data
Updated: 2012-03-20 15:30:43The latest incarnation of the CRUTEM land surface temperatures and the HadCRUT global temperatures are out this week. This is the 4th version of these products, which have undergone a number of significant changes over that time and so this is a good opportunity to discuss how and why data products evolve and what that [...]This Weekend on Capital Green Scene
Updated: 2012-03-16 21:13:14Our guest will be Marcia Bystryn, executive director of the New York League of Conservation Voters. Among other things, she will discuss recent efforts by the state assembly to sweep $200 million from the budget of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, a proposal by state lawmakers to dedicate unclaimed bottle deposits [...]Server Issues
Updated: 2012-03-16 17:08:57I upgraded my server account – we will see if that gets us past the server issues the site has been experiencing over the last few days.Tilting at Straw Men
Updated: 2012-03-16 17:08:01In my Forbes article a few weeks ago, I showed how the arguments alarmists most frequently use to “prove” that skeptics are wrong are actually straw men. Alarmists want to fight the war over whether the greenhouse gas effect of CO2 is true and whether the world has seen warming over the last century, both [...]Green groups decry energy fund budget raid
Updated: 2012-03-14 23:03:50A part of the proposed state Assembly budget bill has two dozen environmental and alternative energy groups up in arms. Tucked into the budget, under A.9055-C Part N, is a potential raid of up to $200 million at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, which would be directed to make that much [...]Sherwood Rowland, CFCs, ozone depletion and the public role of scientists
Updated: 2012-03-14 02:34:01Many of you will have read the obituaries of the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sherwood Rowland (Nature, BBC) who sadly died over the weekend. DotEarth has a good collection of links to papers, videos and tributes. We have sometimes commented on the connections between the issue of CFC-driven ozone depletion and anthropogenic global warming. In both [...]The Senate and the EPF
Updated: 2012-03-12 20:52:30The Senate’s one-house budget bill came out this morning. The news is mostly good. The Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) remains at $134 million, as proposed by the Governor and accepted by the environmental community. But it cuts the land acquisition portion by $2 million, shifting that money to other categories. Rather than create winners and [...]The Assembly Enhances the EPF
Updated: 2012-03-11 00:44:27Since 1994, New York’s Environmental Protection Fund has been the primary source of funding for a host of projects that help conserve land, fight pollution, create jobs and promote tourism. And that’s not all the EPF does. Unfortunately, as a result of the economic crisis of the past few years, EPF funding has been reduced [...]The Royal Society's Climate of Anti-Science
Updated: 2012-03-09 17:11:50HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor MY NEW E-BOOK JUST PUBLISHED March 2012 Power Politics reveals that pretty much everything we have been told about energy just isn't true . Available now . Click to go to Amazon Kindle Store UK just 3.23 or Kindle Store US just 4.99 and other E-publishers soon . nbsp An excellent , readable book for anyone who wants to know the real implications of climateAustralian PM Julia Gillard’s appalling record of climate change inaction
Updated: 2012-03-08 00:22:32
Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. Pro-coal, pro-gas Australian PM Julia Gillard has an appalling record of climate change inaction falsely dressed up as the opposite. The biggest and most outrageous untruth of … New York Battery and Energy Storage Conference Today in Troy
Updated: 2012-03-07 00:13:21NY-BEST is holding it’s annual conference today in Troy at the Hilton Garden Inn. A copy of the agenda is here. http://www.ny-best.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=8&noFullMsg=true NY-BEST was created by NYSERDA to grow the battery and energy storage industry in New York. This conference brings together the top researchers, developers, manufacturers and consumers of battery and energy storage technology [...]The Alarmist Bait and Switch
Updated: 2012-03-05 15:31:27This quote from Michael Mann is a great example of two common rhetorical tactics of climate alarmists: And so I think we have to get away from this idea that in matters of science, it’s, you know, that we should treat discussions of climate change as if there are two equal sides, like we often do in [...]Revising History
Updated: 2012-03-05 15:13:35This is a topic we have covered here a lot – downward revisions to temperatures decades ago that increase the apparent 20th century warming. Here is a great example of this from the GISS for Reykjavik, Iceland. The GISS has revised downwards early 20th century temperatures by as much as 2C, despite Iceland’s Met office crying [...]