• Can Better Batteries Shrink California’s Carbon Footprint?

    Updated: 2012-05-31 16:38:13
    Jump-starting the Bay Area’s battery research could yield answers beyond 2020. Continue reading →

  • Following money and power in climate change debate

    Updated: 2012-05-30 22:49:39
    One of my friends and I often debate climate change. Inevitably, he makes the assertion that all climate scientists around the world have been lying for grant money when they publish studies that show climate change is driven by accumulating man-made greenhouse gases from burning of fossil fuels. It’s a pretty nifty rhetorical device. It [...]

  • The New Cap & Trade Battlefront: How to Spend the Revenues

    Updated: 2012-05-30 16:48:55
    Lawmakers weigh in on what to do with the carbon-trading windfall. Continue reading →

  • UK Coalition on Energy: Dumb and Dumber

    Updated: 2012-05-30 12:23:51
    : 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

  • An Inside Look at EPA’s Carbon Pollution Hearing — the Chicago Report

    Updated: 2012-05-29 22:52:22
    If you already read my colleague Mandy Warner’s blog, you know that I had the great honor of representing EDF in Chicago last Thursday at one of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) hearings for its first-ever proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants.    It was a day that will always stand out as a milestone [...]

  • Recap of the 7th International Conference on Climate Change

    Updated: 2012-05-29 16:35:36
    “We are winning the war!” was a phrase I heard repeatedly last week. Congressman Sensenbrenner, Vice Chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, said: “We won on these issues because we were right.” What “war” brought together more than 60 scientists from around the world—including astronauts,  meteorologists, and physicians; politicians—comprising the Congressman, [...]

  • A Little Lake Reveals Clues About Past Megadroughts

    Updated: 2012-05-29 14:00:41
    Scientists stumbled on Fallen Leaf Lake and the ancient trees under its surface. Continue reading →

  • New Urbanism

    Updated: 2012-05-29 12:05:29
    This weekend my family traveled to Maryland to play in a soccer tournament.  The way tournaments work, you must stay in the “team” hotel, so we did.  It was a Marriott in Gaithersburg Maryland – not a place we would normally say (there is a reason they leave the lights on).  Anyway, it was a [...]

  • UPDATED: This Weekend on Capital Green Scene

    Updated: 2012-05-28 17:57:08
    Our guest is Bobbi Chase Wilding, deputy director of Clean and Healthy New York, who will talk about efforts in the state Legislature to ban certain chemical flame retardants commonly used in children’s products like cribs, high chairs and  seats. State lawmakers are weighing a potential ban on a chemical called Tris, which has been [...]

  • Getting Serious About the “Other” Greenhouse Gases

    Updated: 2012-05-25 16:51:13
    Are we too focused on CO2? Continue reading →

  • Real Video

    Updated: 2012-05-25 11:35:19
    Guest post by Kelly Levin, WRI; Paul Higgins, AMS; Brian Helmuth, University of South Carolina; and Andy Dessler, Texas A&M Scientists have made massive progress in understanding the climate system and how human activities are altering it. Despite that progress, decision makers continue to struggle with climate change risk management. RealClimate and other initiatives have [...]

  • An Inside Look at EPA’s Carbon Pollution Hearings

    Updated: 2012-05-25 00:29:34
    It was an exciting day for clean energy at the downtown Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). That’s where EPA held one of its two public hearings on the first ever proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants. (The other hearing was in Chicago). EPA’s registered speaker list was jam-packed. In [...]

  • How NOT to do a Public Protest

    Updated: 2012-05-24 09:21:21
    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

  • Quick Link: “Peter Gleick Cleared of Forging Documents in Heartland Expose”

    Updated: 2012-05-23 23:22:47
    Pacific Institute founder has always denied forging any Heartland documents, though he admits using deception to get them. Source: Guardian Continue reading →

  • Solar Parity

    Updated: 2012-05-23 10:59:07
    John Farrell created a fascinating map of when solar energy will achieve grid parity in major metropolitan areas.  To make the map work you must click “animate” at the bottom right of the map.  So cool. Interactive Solar Map

  • Fresh hockey sticks from the Southern Hemisphere

    Updated: 2012-05-22 01:28:45
    In the Northern Hemisphere, the late 20th / early 21st century has been the hottest time period in the last 400 years at very high confidence, and likely in the last 1000 – 2000 years (or more). It has been unclear whether this is also true in the Southern Hemisphere. Three studies out this week [...]

  • OHC Model/Obs Comparison Errata

    Updated: 2012-05-22 01:21:55
    This is just a brief note to point out that a few graphs that I have put together showing Ocean Heat Content changes in recent decades had an incorrect scaling for the GISS model data. My error was in assuming that the model output (which were in units W yr/m2) were scaled for the ocean [...]

  • Another fingerprint

    Updated: 2012-05-20 09:49:09
    When my kids were younger, they asked me why the ocean was blue. I would answer that the ocean mirrors the blue sky. However, I would not think much more about it, even though it is well-known that the oceans represent the most important source for atmospheric moisture. They also play an important role for [...]

  • Europe's Other Power Crisis: Energy

    Updated: 2012-05-18 19:42:37
    : 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

  • This Weekend on Capital Green Scene

    Updated: 2012-05-18 19:31:35
    Our guest will be Dave Wick, the new executive director of the Lake George Park Commission. The commission sets policy for Lake George and the communities that surround it. Wick will take on questions on issues before the commission, like reviving controversial  stream protection proposals floated by commission several years ago, and whether public boating [...]

  • DEC killing of black bear

    Updated: 2012-05-18 17:02:54
    On Thursday, wildlife officers from the state DEC shot and killed a black bear on the grounds of the state University at Albany. The bear had previously twice before been tranquilized and captured in residential areas in the Capital Region, and relocated to the Catskill. DEC officials said that they chose to destroy the juvenile [...]

  • Plugging the leaks

    Updated: 2012-05-17 12:54:50
    Guest commentary by Beate Liepert, NWRA Clouds and water vapor accounts for only a tiny fraction of all water on Earth, but in spite of it, this moisture in the atmosphere is crucially important to replenishing drinking water reservoirs, crop yields, distribution of vegetation zones, and so on. This is the case because in the [...]

  • Local Lift event today

    Updated: 2012-05-17 12:05:31
    Local Lift, a volunteer organization focused on creating a sustainable innovation communities is holding an event at Hudson Valley’s TEC SMART campus in Malta today.  Details on the event can be found here.  http://www.locallift.org/register-2

  • Climate Change and Politics – Where are Our Leaders

    Updated: 2012-05-16 12:29:34
    Jon Krosnick, a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, recently released a survey that shows that Americans’ support for government action on global warming remains high but has dropped by about 5 percentage points during the past two years. The survey finds that weather and political rhetoric have influenced public opinion, [...]

  • Greenland Glaciers — not so fast!

    Updated: 2012-05-15 16:41:41
    There have been several recent papers on ice sheets and sea level that have gotten a bit of press of the journalistic whiplash variety (“The ice is melting faster than we thought!” “No, its not!”). As usual the papers themselves are much better than the press about them, and the results less confusing. They add [...]

  • Greening NYC

    Updated: 2012-05-15 12:07:57
    My son Ethan is 11 and loves soccer and lacrosse.  Two years ago we signed him up to play with the local Blackwatch soccer team.  He loves it.  This year his Blackwatch team is playing in the ENYYA state cup, which has teams from Long Island, Manhattan and Westchester up through our region, playing one [...]

  • UPDATED: This Weekend on Capital Green Scene

    Updated: 2012-05-11 20:21:43
    Our guest will be Gavin McIntyre, one of the co-founders of an innovative Green Island-based business that uses mushrooms to create eco-friendly packaging material. The company, Ecovative Design, was recently honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The all-natural, mushroom-based material is a replacement for petroleum-based polystyrene. McIntyre and his business partner, Eban Bayer, are [...]

  • Ehrlich, False Prophets and the 'Futures' Market

    Updated: 2012-05-07 16:43:18
    , 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

  • Climate Impacts Day “Connects the Dots” Between Extreme Weather & Climate Change

    Updated: 2012-05-04 19:56:04
    Striking images and video are beginning to stream in from over 1,000 events in more than 100 countries where people are “connecting the dots” between climate change and extreme weather. The events are part of a global effort called “Climate Impacts Day” organized by the international climate campaign 350.org. Over then next 24 hours, our [...]

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