• The Sheer Idiocy and Folly of Theoretic Climate Alarmism

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:39:57
    Another short video and as good as it gets in summing up all the nutjob theories of the end-is-nigh climate alarmists - and the damage it is doing to common sense, intellectual thought and to humankind per se. Made by the good people at Free Market America - good job.

  • The Rise of Leftist Eco-Fasicsm

    Updated: 2012-04-28 16:12:19
    Log in RSS news feed Email Log in RSS news feed Email 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 climate madness for energy policy . Steve Goreham author Climatism : Science , Common Sense and the 21 st Century's Hottest Topic a watershed book . Donald G . Nelson Direct click through to page from Continuum Amazon US Amazon UK and from Borders Waterstone and all usual . booksellers Subscribe Log in RSS news feed Email Navigation HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of

  • Unlocking the secrets to ending an Ice Age

    Updated: 2012-04-28 12:25:12
    Guest Commentary by Chris Colose, SUNY Albany It has long been known that characteristics of the Earth’s orbit (its eccentricity, the degree to which it is tilted, and its “wobble”) are slightly altered on timescales of tens to hundreds of thousands of years. Such variations, collectively known as Milankovitch cycles, conspire to pace the timing [...]

  • This weekend on Capital Green Scene

    Updated: 2012-04-27 18:22:15
    Our guest will be Assembly member Robert Sweeney, chairman of the Environmental Conservation Committee, who will talk about some proposed environmental laws now under consideration at the Capitol. Those laws would cover issues like wastes from natural gas hydrofracking, sewage spills, greenhouse gases, chemicals in children’s products, and using unclaimed bottle deposits to fund environmental [...]

  • Brown Says State’s Buildings Must Go Green

    Updated: 2012-04-26 23:53:28
    An executive order directs state agencies to cut carbon emissions, save water and energy Continue reading →

  • How Energy Smart are You?

    Updated: 2012-04-26 14:36:56
    To continue the celebration of Earth Day, which is this Sunday, Smart Press ran an energy efficiency quiz over the last couple weeks. To be fair – it has a lot of random percentages, but the results are still alarming.  Of the people taking the quiz, many of whom care about Climate Change and energy [...]

  • US Green Police to Enforce "Environmental Justice"

    Updated: 2012-04-26 11:10:49
    If you're wondering how far eco-fascism has got...wonder no more. The US Homeland Security Dept, has just announced it is setting up local law enforcement "green police" to enforce "environmental justice". I kid you not. And Audi are already using the reality to help sell their cars as per this Super Bowl ad.

  • California’s Low-Carbon Fuel Standard Back on Track — For Now

    Updated: 2012-04-25 00:52:24
    But the courts aren't finished with the next big piece of the state's AB 32 climate strategy. Continue reading →

  • UK Goes for Shale-fuelled 'Gold'

    Updated: 2012-04-24 15:06:25
    Log in RSS news feed Email Log in RSS news feed Email 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 climate madness for energy policy . Steve Goreham author Climatism : Science , Common Sense and the 21 st Century's Hottest Topic a watershed book . Donald G . Nelson Direct click through to page from Continuum Amazon US Amazon UK and from Borders Waterstone and all usual . booksellers Subscribe Log in RSS news feed Email Navigation HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of

  • AIDG Home

    Updated: 2012-04-24 00:25:18
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  • AIDG Blog RECELCA Wins Guateverde 2010

    Updated: 2012-04-24 00:24:58
    Subscribe to our Newsletter News Press Events Contact Us AIDG.net Home About Us Our Approach AIDG in Action Blog Photos Get Involved Donate AIDG Blog Appropriate Technology , Development , Environment RECELCA Wins Guateverde 2010 by Catherine Laine December 15th , 2010 Congratulations to Vinicio Sosa and his company RECELCA , the GuateVerde winner for 2010 RECELCA is a Guatemalan company that offers a wide range of electronic recycling services , based on personalized attention , seeking the greatest benefits for the environment and our . customers Our services are targeted to businesses and consumers , : including Recycling of obsolete and outdated equipment Certified Information Destruction Purchase and Refurbishing of Obsolete Electronic Equipment Let us help you develop and support a

  • AIDG Blog Quetsol Founder Manuel Aguilar named a TED Global Fellow

    Updated: 2012-04-24 00:24:44
    Subscribe to our Newsletter News Press Events Contact Us AIDG.net Home About Us Our Approach AIDG in Action Blog Photos Get Involved Donate AIDG Blog Appropriate Technology , Development , Environment Quetsol Founder Manuel Aguilar named a TED Global Fellow by Catherine Laine June 7th , 2011 2009 Guateverde winner and founder of Quetsol Manuel Aguilar , has just been name a TED Global Fellow . Congrats Manuel The 2011 TED Global Fellows Bookmark blog post : on Del.icio.us digg FURL reddit Stumble Upon This entry was posted on Tuesday , June 7th , 2011 at 1:40 pm and is filed under General You can leave a response or trackback from your own site . Leave a Comment Comments on the AIDG blog are . moderated Name required Mail will not be published required Website AIDG Blog Appropriate

  • AIDG Blog 2009 Guateverde Winner Quetsol in the Prensa Libre

    Updated: 2012-04-24 00:24:43
    Subscribe to our Newsletter News Press Events Contact Us AIDG.net Home About Us Our Approach AIDG in Action Blog Photos Get Involved Donate AIDG Blog Appropriate Technology , Development , Environment 2009 Guateverde Winner Quetsol in the Prensa Libre by Catherine Laine December 15th , 2010 The 2009 GuateVerde Winner , Quetsol , has received much positive press in recent months , being featured in the Prensa Libre , the largest circulation daily newspaper in Guatemala , El Periódico and Energy Entrepreneurs . El Periódico : …Y se les prendió el foco Tono” and Juanish” , the astrophysicist and the business manager , lifelong friends and now partners in a company looking to grow through renewable . energy Two young men travel to Guatemala’s most remote villages to promote a solar energy

  • Climate, Corn, and the Coming Market Chaos

    Updated: 2012-04-23 19:18:47
    Climate change has an outsize effect on corn price volatility Continue reading →

  • Burning Down the House

    Updated: 2012-04-23 17:19:22
    Steve Zwick walked back his comments about letting skeptics’s houses burn down and tries to clarify the point he was trying to make.  I have further comments in a new Forbes article here.  An excerpt: Steve Zwick has posted an update to the post I wrote about last week and has decided the house-burning analogy was [...]

  • Another well-deserved honor: Oeschger medal awarded to Michael Mann

    Updated: 2012-04-23 16:23:43
    As many will have already heard, our colleague, RC co-founder and friend Michael Mann will receive the Oeschger medal from the European Geosciences Union this week in Vienna. We are delighted to announce this and to congratulate Mike. Hans Oeschger was a Swiss scientist originally trained as a nuclear physicist. His name is well known [...]

  • UPDATED *** This weekend on Capital Green Scene

    Updated: 2012-04-20 17:46:07
    For our Earth Day weekend, we will be coming to you from the Albany Pine Bush Preserve, with preserve commission Executive Director Chris Hawver. Hawver has been the Executive Director of the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission since 2000. He started with the commission as a seasonal ecologist in 1993. As executive director, Chris is [...]

  • Thinking Long-Term About Power Plants

    Updated: 2012-04-20 01:21:46
    A new report warns against the folly of over-investing in natural gas Continue reading →

  • State greenhouse gas program lowers home energy bills

    Updated: 2012-04-19 21:40:59
    A state program meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants is helping people save money, a coalition of environmental groups is claiming in a recent report. The report on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which covers New York and other states in the northeast, found it “will help homeowners save about $46 million [...]

  • A Vivid Reminder of How The Climate Debate is Broken

    Updated: 2012-04-19 21:27:44
    My Forbes column is up this week.  I really did not want to write about climate, but when Forbes conctributor Steve Zwick wrote this, I had to respond We know who the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies.  Let’s start keeping track [...]

  • Updated Charts

    Updated: 2012-04-19 21:02:57
    These are some updated charts I need for linking from a Forbes article.  Look for the link coming soon.

  • Despite Kyoto, UK Carbon Footprint Bigger than Ever

    Updated: 2012-04-18 22:52:30
    The European Union (EU) preens itself on being the global leader in the fight against climate change. EU politicians scold the USA for ’failing’ to ratify Kyoto Protocol and enact cap-and-trade. Within the EU, the UK champions the most aggressive climate policies. So the UK’s carbon footprint must be shrinking, right? Not according to a new report by the UK’s Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs [...]

  • What Will Conservation Cost?

    Updated: 2012-04-18 16:22:26
    Climate change will complicate conservation, making it much more expensive Continue reading →

  • Green energy alone won’t save the earth – social change is also needed

    Updated: 2012-04-17 22:39:36
    The most popular techno-fix for global warming is green energy. If energy companies would only deploy wind, hydro, solar, geothermal or nuclear, then emission-intensive fossil fuels will eventually disappear. But will that actually work? A new study by Richard York …

  • How Green is Your EV?

    Updated: 2012-04-17 19:03:47
    A new study and map reveal that it depends on where your juice is coming from. Continue reading →

  • HadCRUT4 data now available

    Updated: 2012-04-16 23:23:38
    Just a quick note to point out that the HadCRUT4 data are now fully available for download. Feel free to discuss (or point to) any analyses you’d like to see done in the comments, and perhaps we’ll update this post with the more interesting ones.

  • Lightning, Twisters, Snow and Waterspouts (Oh My)

    Updated: 2012-04-16 23:22:49
    April arrives with a lot more than showers. Continue reading →

  • Big Oil, Big Profits, Big Green Lies

    Updated: 2012-04-15 01:31:51
    The above article from me is published this weekend here at The Commentator (UK) and here at Energy Tribune (US).

  • Court Hears Oral Argument on Cross-State Air Pollution Rule

    Updated: 2012-04-13 23:21:30
    Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. heard oral arguments on legal challenges to EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.  As I wrote yesterday, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule reduces emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants in 28 eastern states. EPA issued the rule to implement the “Good Neighbor” provision [...]

  • UPDATED: This weekend on Capital Green Scene

    Updated: 2012-04-13 16:16:54
    The Mohawk River has has had three major floods since 2006. And changing weather patterns in the last few decades, particularly over the Catskills, are adding more rain that makes such flooding more likely in the future. Hear about this from researchers John Garver, head of the geology department at Union College, and Jacklyn Jacklyn [...]

  • Climate Dissent Launches at NASA

    Updated: 2012-04-12 17:36:30
    Log in RSS news feed Email Log in RSS news feed Email 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 climate madness for energy policy . Steve Goreham author Climatism : Science , Common Sense and the 21 st Century's Hottest Topic a watershed book . Donald G . Nelson Direct click through to page from Continuum Amazon US Amazon UK and from Borders Waterstone and all usual . booksellers Subscribe Log in RSS news feed Email Navigation HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of

  • Cross-State Goes to Court: Oral Arguments Start Tomorrow in Lawsuits about Clean Air Rule

    Updated: 2012-04-12 15:24:37
    Another big day in court looms for EPA’s clean air protections. This time it’s the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule that’s under fire. Tomorrow, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral arguments in lawsuits over the rule – a rule that provides vitally important clean air protections for families [...]

  • Trees

    Updated: 2012-04-12 12:21:29
    There was a great article today in the New York Times about trees.  It highlighted the simple, necessary, chemically complex and amazing job that trees do to preserve the planet and make our world a better place.  Trees are a heat shield;  decomposing leaves of trees leach acids into the ocean that help fertilize plankton which [...]

  • High polluting Victoria, Australia, hell-bent on increasing greenhouse gas pollution

    Updated: 2012-04-11 12:25:14
    The State of Victoria, Australia, is the worst polluting state in Australia which in turn is one of the worst countries in the world for annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. However the new ultra-conservative government of Victoria is …

  • The Weather Really is Weird

    Updated: 2012-04-11 11:59:26
    March was the warmest March in history – or at least since 1895, when records began, according to scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  The average temperature for the United States (other than Alaska and Hawaii) was 51.1 degrees Fahrenheit (10.6 degrees Celsius), which was 0.5 degrees F (0.9 degrees C) warmer than [...]

  • Houston, We Have a Climate Alarmist Problem

    Updated: 2012-04-11 09:31:38
    , Log in RSS news feed Email Log in RSS news feed Email 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 climate madness for energy policy . Steve Goreham author Climatism : Science , Common Sense and the 21 st Century's Hottest Topic a watershed book . Donald G . Nelson Direct click through to page from Continuum Amazon US Amazon UK and from Borders Waterstone and all usual . booksellers Subscribe Log in RSS news feed Email Navigation HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of

  • Arctic Sea Ice Volume: PIOMAS, Prediction, and the Perils of Extrapolation

    Updated: 2012-04-11 01:11:34
    Guest Commentary by Axel Schweiger, Ron Lindsay, and Cecilia Bitz We have just passed the annual maximum in Arctic sea ice extent which always occurs sometime in March. Within a month we will reach the annual maximum in Arctic sea ice volume. After that, the sea ice will begin its course towards its annual minimum [...]

  • UPDATED: Choking on Irony

    Updated: 2012-04-10 17:09:17
    A protest of Mayor Bloomberg’s plans to invite proposals for a waste-to-energy incinerator at Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island was canceled yesterday due to a major fire that broke out at the landfill. Beryl Thurman, executive director of the North Shore Waterfront Conservancy of Staten Island, who was at the scene, took photos of [...]

  • UPDATED: This weekend on Capital Green Scene

    Updated: 2012-04-06 22:43:40
    How goes the fight to rid Lake George of an invasive clam that if left unchecked could foul it legendary clear waters with dense mats of algae? Doesn’t that sound pleasant to swim in? Hear an update from Sandra Nierzwicki-Bauer, director of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Darrin Freshwater Institute. The second year of an effort [...]

  • Palo Alto Introduces Energy Efficiency App on Facebook

    Updated: 2012-04-04 14:18:13
    Facebook, Opower, NRDC and Palo Alto recently partnered to create a Facebook App that lets Palo Alto residents track their energy efficiency and compete with their Facebook friends (who must also live in Palo Alto) to see who is more energy efficient.  The App is in response to behavioral research that shows that the more [...]

  • The Left's Big Lie About Big Oil's "Excessive" Profits Exposed

    Updated: 2012-04-04 10:38:20
    We hear it so often from the activist lefties that we perhaps take it for granted. It's the one asserting that Big Oil needs its "excessive" profits taxed away. This good article in the US Investors Business Daily is highly revealing however. 

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