Grand Plan May Settle the Solar Siting Paradox
Updated: 2012-08-31 18:44:30
Remote deserts would seem to be the ideal place for Big Solar -- were it only that simple. Continue reading →- Remote deserts would seem to be the ideal place for Big Solar -- were it only that simple. Continue reading →
Climate indices to watch
Updated: 2012-08-31 12:30:57
What is the most important climate condition to keep tabs on? We have recently mentioned the record-low Arctic sea-ice extent, but hurricanes this year seem to be getting the most attention because of timing ofHurricane Isaac (I know of no evidence suggesting that the Arctic sea-ice has such a direct impact on U.S. politics!). In [...]My bus route is being eliminated and all I’m getting is this lousy pen
Updated: 2012-08-31 01:07:48
I have written before on this blog about the lovely village of Altamont, where my husband and I moved two years ago. One of the reasons we chose to live in Altamont was the fact that it had direct bus service connecting the village to downtown Albany, where both of us work. The day after [...]Mark Steyn v Michael Mann: Nice cartoon
Updated: 2012-08-30 11:05:47
A nice cartoon drawn specifically for my article The Climate Change Racket: Finally A 'Day in Court'? published today here over The Commentator (UK).Worst Study Ever?
Updated: 2012-08-29 23:02:54I have to agree with JoNova, the Lewandowsky study ostensibly linking climate skeptics to moon-landing-deniers is perhaps the worst study I have seen in a really long time. This is another sign of postmodernism run wild in the sciences, with having the “right” answer being more important than actually being able to prove it. The [...]The Climate Change Racket: Finally, a 'Day in Court'?
Updated: 2012-08-29 16:56:09
Michael Mann wants to sue Mark Steyn over thr latter's claim that his climate change hockey stick graph was 'fraudulent' (which it was of course). Good luck with that, Michael.
Here's the full story at Energy Tribune. Quick Link: “Arctic sea ice reaches record low”
Updated: 2012-08-27 22:19:20Source: Bbc Continue reading →An update on the Arctic sea-ice
Updated: 2012-08-26 16:45:58
We noted earlier that the Artic sea-ice is approaching a record minimum. The record is now broken, almost a month before the annual sea-ice minima usually is observed, and there is probably more melting in store before it reaches the minimum for 2012 – before the autumn sea-ice starts to form. The figure shows annual [...]This Weekend on Capital Green Scene
Updated: 2012-08-24 21:53:19How is New York State faring in adding more alternative energy, like solar and wind, to its electrical supply? Hear an update from Carol Murphy of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York, an Albany-based lobbying group for manufacturers and installers of alternative energy systems. here … here Capital Green Scene airs at 11 a.m. [...]Why Wildfires Are Burning Bigger and Hotter
Updated: 2012-08-24 00:32:41A century of fire suppression means there are more trees to burn, and they burn more dramatically Continue reading →Antarctic Peninsula warming: natural variability or “global warming”?
Updated: 2012-08-23 21:33:50
Most people know that the Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming places on earth. But like everywhere else in Antarctica, the length of available temperature data is short — most records begin in 1957 (when stations were put in place during the International Geophysical Year); a few start in the late 1940s. [...]Quick Link: Romney Rolls Out His Plan for Energy Independence
Updated: 2012-08-23 18:59:36Plays up North American oil production, plays down everything else Mitt Romney’s energy plan calls for increasing offshore drilling, letting states oversee energy production–rather than the federal government–and building the Keystone XL pipeline. Source: Continue reading →Heat Waves, Droughts, Floods — We Didn’t Listen!
Updated: 2012-08-23 16:22:43
The hilarious South Park episode “Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow” opens with Eric Cartman and Stan Marsh playing in a motor boat that Cartman falsely claims belongs to his uncle. Cartman persuades Stan to drive the boat. Not knowing how, Stan crashes the boat into the world’s largest beaver dam, flooding the town [...]Study: Urban Water Use Will Outpace Efficiency Gains
Updated: 2012-08-23 06:02:55
But returning to "Hollywood" showers will just make things worse. Continue reading →Shifting Sands: San Francisco Begins Huge Erosion-Control Project
Updated: 2012-08-23 02:58:33
Ocean Beach has too much sand on one end and too little on the other. Continue reading →Vacations
Updated: 2012-08-23 01:10:31My family and I took our annual vacation this year to Martha’s Vineyard. All started well. We took my Prius and my husband’s Mini to Falmouth and then my Prius over to MV. We decided a while ago that having a car that worked for car vacations all year round, just meant we were driving [...]I Was Reading Matt Ridley’s Lecture at the Royal Society for the Arts….
Updated: 2012-08-22 19:58:07… and it was fun to see my charts in it! The lecture is reprinted here (pdf) or here (html) over at Anthondy Watts’ site. The charts I did are around pages 6-7 of the pdf, the ones showing the projected curve of global warming for various climate sensitivities, and backing into what that should imply [...]John Christy on Summer Heat and James Hansen’s PNAS Study
Updated: 2012-08-20 17:43:17
In a recent study published in Procedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), NASA scientist James Hansen and two colleagues find that whereas “extremely hot” summer weather ”practically did not exist” during 1951-1980, such weather affected between 4% and 13% of the Northern Hemisphere land area during 2006-2011. The researchers infer that human-caused global warming is “loading” the “climate dice” [...]Butterflies reacting to Climate Change
Updated: 2012-08-20 17:01:05Animals that know nothing about the political debate over man-made climate change are reacting to the changes, as shown by this latest research from Harvard University. The study looks at butterfly populations in neighboring Massachusetts. Here is the release: The authors of a Harvard study published today in Nature Climate Change gathered their data from [...]Language Intelligence – Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga: A Review
Updated: 2012-08-20 15:20:18Any book that manages to link together the lessons of the Bible, Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, and Lady Gaga (not to mention Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, Bob Dylan, and Jerry Seinfeld), can’t be all bad. With Joe Romm’s new book Language Intelligence, it is, in fact, ALL good. There are lessons galore for the scientists [...]Extreme metrics
Updated: 2012-08-19 04:24:17There has been a lot of discussion related to the paper and the accompanying op-ed in the Washington Post last week. But in this post, I’ll try and make the case that most of the discussion has not related to the actual analysis described in the paper, but rather to proxy arguments for what people [...]12 Million Californians ‘Highly Vulnerable’ to Climate Change — Now What?
Updated: 2012-08-17 22:27:06
Color-coding climate risks in the Golden State. Continue reading →UPDATED: This Weekend on Capital Green Scene
Updated: 2012-08-17 21:10:46Our guest will be Dean Norton, president of the Farm Bureau of New York. Hear Mr. Norton talk about topics facing the state’s farmers, including last week’s “Yogurt Summit” held by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to encourage more yogurt production, this year’s dismal apple crop, the impact of the drought on food supply and how community-supported [...]Solar Energy New York
Updated: 2012-08-17 11:29:54Last week CNSE held a DOE Sun Shot Conference at their facilities in Albany. I was an impressive gathering of all the regional installers, service providers and educators in the solar field. It also attracted speakers on financing, policy, and an update on recent solar installations in New York State. One of the most fascinating, [...]Whatever happened to peak oil?
Updated: 2012-08-16 16:16:53
The above now published here at Energy Tribune (US) and here at The Commentator (UK). Peak oil alarmists have started running for cover as increasing finds make a nonsese of their predictions. As some of us have been saying for years: for all practical pursposes, oil and gas resources are limitless.SEQRA Reform on the Table
Updated: 2012-08-14 15:36:57Last Friday was the deadline for comments on the scope of a generic environmental impact statement on proposed amendments to “streamline” the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) regulations. If this is the first time you are hearing about this, you are not alone. Many people who have a stake in the outcome only learned [...]UPDATED: Last week’s guest on Capital Green Scene
Updated: 2012-08-13 17:38:43Sorry for the delay in getting this up … Summer vacation schedules and all that… We had Ross Gould, an air and energy analyst with Environmental Advocates of New York, who spoke about the future of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative that aims to reduce emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases from electric power plants in [...]Arctic sea ice minimum 2012…
Updated: 2012-08-12 21:37:16By popular demand, a thread devoted to the continuing decline of Arctic sea ice, and a potential new record minimum this year. As before, the figures are hot-linked and will update day-by-day. JAXA Sea ice extent: Cryosphere Today sea ice concentration (interactive chart): Estimated sea ice volume from UW PIOMAS (updated every month): Other links: [...]Antarctica's Glacial Melt
Updated: 2012-08-10 19:10:16There should no longer be any doubt. Climate change is here, and it is happening. 26,000 broken heat records this summer speak for themselves. Extreme weather events hit home. Another consequence of climate change, by contrast – rising sea levels – often seems far away and far off. “Far away” is easily dismissed. U.S. coasts [...]Worstall, Carbon Tax and Floating Polar Bear Syndrome
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Updated: 2012-08-07 12:44:46This Sunday Brian Nearing wrote an interesting article about the doomed offshore wind project for the Great Lakes that was supported by NYPA under Richard Kessel’s leadership – they called it GLOW (Great Lakes Offshore Wind). The article posits that GLOW was discontinued by the NYPA Board because it failed to get RPS support from [...]Still Toying With Security
Updated: 2012-08-06 20:37:33If you hit an unexpected error, or worse, seem to have been banned, email me at the link on this page or if you can’t get here, at the link on my sister blog Coyoteblog.comBenchmarking of Energy Efficiency of NYC Buildings
Updated: 2012-08-06 16:12:47In 2009, as a part of the PlaNYC Greater Green Buildings Code, Public Law 84 was passed. The law required that all buildings in New York City over 50,000 sq. ft., or multiple buildings with a combined square footage of 100,000 square feet, benchmark their energy usage. The first report based on that data was [...]Let the games begin!
Updated: 2012-08-04 22:07:58I picked a good weekend to be out of cell phone range and unconnected to the internet – and judging from how the rest of the week has gone, I’d have been minded to stay there… As most readers are probably aware, there was an op-ed in the Saturday New York Times from Richard Muller [...]