Its getting hot out there, so cut your carbon 258 Global Warming 2012-02-08T03:10:17 Science Guy barry.david.adams@gmail.com The Green Blog 2012-02-07T00:48:27

Vijay Modi and his collaborators at Columbia University School of Engineering recently released a really neat map.   The interactive map shows energy use and intensity in New York City.  Click the link below or copy the website into your browser to use.  The map shows many buildings in midtown using more than 5,000kWh. Energy [...]

27cebe242a5fc67adb5396071eed83b6 RealClimate 2012-02-06T14:36:09

My co-authors and I have just published an article in Nature Geoscience (advance online publication here; associated press release here) which seeks to explain certain enigmatic features of tree-ring reconstructions of Northern Hemisphere (NH) temperatures of the past millennium. Most notable is the virtual absence of cooling in the tree-ring reconstructions during what ice core [...]

64d9790f0cacd60fca2886cdd36184f8 The Green Blog 2012-02-06T11:51:18

According to a bunch of my federal lobbyist friends, earmarks are back.  Good, bad, both? We have lived with a Congress minus earmarks for the last three years.  This tenure was marked with gridlock, several potential government shut downs, disputes over the national debt that led to a near default on the debt.  The reason? [...]

ed2358c2427c58620e4419920328716d KQED's Climate Watch 2012-02-03T22:27:05

Poor, urban and minority residents are most at risk for health problems linked to climate change, according to a new analysis of Los Angeles and Fresno counties. Continue reading →

5e512691f9b91251f6cc76644078c382 KQED's Climate Watch 2012-02-03T00:36:58

California will require all major insurers to survey and report climate risks. Continue reading →

fc4616e5ded4047cd16b6c7569973da9 The Green Blog 2012-02-02T00:57:11

The Johnson Foundation recently released a report on the effects of an aging water management infrastructure and the impacts that climate change will have on significant water events, like the flooding we experienced from the Adirondacks to Westchester last year.  The news is not good.  It shows that like our energy, road and building infrastructure, [...]

b952d815ee62d6e64f0f60975c4419d4 Climate 411 - Environmental Defense Fund 2012-02-02T00:06:21

Those of us following the debate over clean air regulations are used to hearing frequent comments from key players – power plant executives, politicians, environmentalists, doctors. But every once in a while, we get a truly original point of view.  Like today – in this animated video from actress Julianne Moore. Moore taped the video [...]

4ed8150c3e991ad280fbed897ab47658 Climate 411 - Environmental Defense Fund 2012-02-01T23:26:07

Two days ago, I wrote about a flawed global warming analysis in the Wall Street Journal. The paper published an opinion piece, No Need to Panic About Global Warming, written by a small group of scientists and engineers who are global warming skeptics. Today, the other side was heard from. The Wall Street Journal published [...]

0630b78cff1fe492c76abf4c51926718 RealClimate 2012-02-01T23:14:38

This month’s open thread. Current topics are focused on the laughingly bad Daily Mail article by David Rose, the fallout from the Wall Street Journal’s latest regurgitation of why no-one should ever do anything ever. And perhaps someone might want to audit some of David Whitehouse’s arithmetic and reading comprehension… Or anything else. Within reason.

05c9c5d9ed53e0239b4e54c30a765279 The Green Blog 2012-02-01T14:23:42

Yesterday NYSERDA released an important report for the future of solar energy in New York.  The report was prepared at the request of the legislature to answer the following questions: “1) Identify administrative and policy options that could be used to achieve the goals set forth in the State Energy Plan (“Goals”), 2) estimate the per-megawatt [...]

aca05423168670cef4d6114e00efc584 Green Blog 2012-02-01T01:41:37

The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation …

328ba5070ed4cf8bfc84429bfe0ba9c1 KQED's Climate Watch 2012-01-31T22:41:19

Are we in one? Water officials say the answer is "Yes and No." Continue reading →

4f88ea15b0acdf3f97e7c968836a7dae The Green Blog 2012-01-31T13:29:13

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 [...]

e898e6c99a7c8de89d259ef3fd9864fd The Green Blog 2012-01-30T22:00:09

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.

536631185a08037c0473aea727be415f Climate 411 - Environmental Defense Fund 2012-01-30T19:15:51

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 [...]

da7eca9513dc0b0f54deb843543755dc RealClimate 2012-01-29T16:22:30

What the IPCC AR4 attribution statement meant for the anthropogenic contribution to recent global warming.

efd3fc162c3dc8d0b50595177bf39984 KQED's Climate Watch 2012-01-28T00:26:43

Air Board adopts landmark rules to curb emissions. Continue reading →

f9115daad9bf31f3aee61731d3401f6e The Green Blog 2012-01-27T22:33:20

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 [...]

b252201baeca333e8ab9811547d0f52b The Green Blog 2012-01-27T00:45:10

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 [...]

be0e395ddb6b2ffc7a76942a490fb2d5 Global Warming Hysteria 2012-01-26T17:55:01

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. 

39f8e599e4e1e77647e110c9ac1df95c The Green Blog 2012-01-26T13:04:52

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 [...]

ffad51283a55e09b103d2298c3b0f977 Climate 411 - Environmental Defense Fund 2012-01-25T19:45:53

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 [...]

2d2e83637d71e66623b3579a6da4714f Green Blog 2012-01-25T17:16:37

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 …

9cd1a227836cccd8288a8b761b386f31 The Green Blog 2012-01-25T17:01:53

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 [...]

f50521474c87328313de75b856ad0857 Global Warming Hysteria 2012-01-24T22:00:25

Just published, this should frighten the "environmental Taliban"....go here or the full article. 

5630a37a7763cf99ab75e31b1f3d0afd RealClimate 2012-01-23T01:51:34

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 [...]

babc5e14a7e071daa80932c8240554a5 Gristmill exclusive Grist 2012-01-21T08:22:20

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Global Warming Hysteria 2012-01-17T16:57:52

The story behind the recent spate of killings and bombings targeting high-profile targets and energy infrastructure in Iran. Go here. 

87a435fa78fa0f8ee4fbe55567ce948a RealClimate 2012-01-17T13:09:02

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: [...]

ebbb3866a60647763d7b13643bedf0df RealClimate 2012-01-16T13:41:08

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, [...]

8d9050429f7e71e507d3925e7058a5d1 Climate 411 - Environmental Defense Fund 2012-01-11T18:11:41

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 [...]

b6c76b2b2d28886a067ea60f5d37a7a5 RealClimate 2012-01-11T13:35:15

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 [...]

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