• The uncertainty prayer

    Updated: 2010-06-29 21:02:12
    Seen at a meeting yesterday: Grant us… The ability to reduce the uncertainties we can; The willingness to work with the uncertainties we cannot; And the scientific knowledge to know the difference. (Drawn from a white paper on the use of climate models for water managers). Discuss.

  • June 29, 2010 – The voices of a new clean energy future

    Updated: 2010-06-29 18:35:03
    Post-gazette.com – “We must change our oil-guzzling ways” By Aaron Misera of Lower Burrel “The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is obviously a terrible incident. However, it truly is a metaphor for America and our arrogance toward energy and environmental policy, not to mention the American lifestyle. Our unquenchable thirst for cheap, dirty, limited fuel [...]

  • A note from our interns-send us your letters!

    Updated: 2010-06-29 16:06:18
    As interns for the National Climate Campaign, one of our responsibilities is to deliver letters from constituents directly to their senators.  We go to Capitol Hill everyday, carrying hundreds of letters and petitions, hoping to pass on the word to Senators that citizens in their states support comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation. We all love being a part of this awesome process.  [...]

  • Climate science investigators

    Updated: 2010-06-28 22:22:26
    School may be out, but over at ACE, we are searching for some answers! This summer, we hired a detective to investigate pressing climate questions. Follow ACE’s Detective Meadows as he answers an urgent climate conundrum: Is the warming that we’re seeing natural or not?! Stay tuned as Inspector Thorough gets on the trail next [...]

  • June 28th, 2010 – The voices of a new clean energy future

    Updated: 2010-06-28 19:47:36
    ToledoBlade.com -“Climate for change?” Editorial “Despite all the critics, the time is ripe to take comprehensive action on climate and energy.” “Every day the Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues is a reminder of the perils of our addiction to carbon-based energy sources. Passing a bill will be tough, but doing nothing will be tougher [...]

  • Latest on the climate bill and new economic study of 'energy-only' approach

    Updated: 2010-06-28 19:13:00
    On E2, Senate Democrats are ready to get to work on a comprehensive energy plan. This news “comes a day after a Senate Democratic caucus meeting that, according to several lawmakers, revealed a strong interest among members in pressing ahead with legislation this year to boost alternative energy and reduce emissions.” E2 also has a [...]

  • Bio Jet Fuel — the Real $600 Toilet Seat?

    Updated: 2010-06-28 17:03:26
    The custom-designed $600 toilet seat for P-3C Orion antisubmarine aircraft — often depicted as the epitome of government waste — is an urban legend. The “seat” was actually a plastic molding that fitted over the entire seat, tank, and toilet assembly,…

  • June 26th, 2010 – The voices of a new clean energy future

    Updated: 2010-06-26 20:02:34
    Winston-Salem Journal – “At first light” Editorial “We can't condemn the suppliers, but over time we can change the economic model. The notion of clean energy now holds a whole new meaning. It's time to embrace it.” The Ledger – “On Global Warming, Listen to NASA Rather Than Those Who Profit” By Debra Frances, resident [...]

  • Clean Energy Pioneers: Building a Stronger Western Economy

    Updated: 2010-06-25 21:37:48
    This post was written by Dan Grossman, Rocky Mountain Regional Director and Senior Counsel to the Land Conservation and Wildlife Program at the Environmental Defense Fund. Westerners are pioneering a new frontier of economic opportunity through homegrown clean energy solutions. The Clean Energy Pioneers website chronicles the people, businesses and communities across the intermountain West [...]

  • Paddling the Coast for Climate Clues

    Updated: 2010-06-25 20:27:18
    Three Stanford students are starting a summer trip down the coast. They'll be enjoying the views and the ocean breeze, but not from a convertible cruising down Highway 1. They're kayaking from Monterey to San Diego. It's going to take 2 months.

  • June 25th, 2010 – The voices of a new clean energy future

    Updated: 2010-06-25 20:02:23
    The Times Ledger – “Country’s security dependent upon energy legislation” By Joseph O. Monitt, executive director of the Philadelphia-based Clean Air Council “We must let our elected officials, specifically Sen. Arlen Specter, of Philadelphia, and Sen. Bob Casey, of Scranton, know that we need them to be leaders in passing strong climate and energy legislation, [...]

  • The latest on the climate bill

    Updated: 2010-06-25 15:56:11
    Climate Progress has a new poll from the Wall Street Journal showing yet again that Americans support a comprehensive climate and energy bill. A thousand people were asked: “Do you support or oppose an energy proposal designed to reduce carbon emissions and increase the use of alternative and renewable energy sources, even if it means [...]

  • Regulation of the Day 143: Your Bedtime

    Updated: 2010-06-24 21:57:14
    In Japan, your bedtime is official government business.

  • New Report Provides Comparison of Energy, Oil Savings and Climate Policies

    Updated: 2010-06-24 19:26:50
    A new report by Resources for the Future, “Toward a New National Energy Policy: Assessing the Options,” provides a thorough analysis of the various energy, oil savings and climate policies currently under debate. The analysis is especially helpful because it employs an “apples to apples” comparison approach by running differing policies through the same economic [...]

  • June 24th, 2010 – The voices of a new clean energy future

    Updated: 2010-06-24 16:56:18
    The Huffington Post – “Why the Senate needs to keep the Change in Climate change” By David Yarnold, Executive Director of EDF “The oil spill has served as a stark reminder of the costs of our national addiction to fossil fuels. The polluted waters and crude-covered pelicans remind us of the ever- more-dangerous methods we [...]

  • Linking Sprawl and Climate Change

    Updated: 2010-06-23 22:04:51
    Under a new law, California's regulators make "smart growth" a pocketbook issue.

  • A new low for science and the NAS — the “Black List”

    Updated: 2010-06-23 21:02:26
    In what has to be one of the most disgraceful examples of political, unscientific attacks, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a report, “Expert credibility in climate change,” alleging to show that climate change “deniers” have less…

  • Sen. Inhofe demolishes energy independence rationale for cap-and-trade

    Updated: 2010-06-23 20:13:06
    Sen. James Inhofe’s daily Environment & Public Works Press Blog is a source I check early and often. The posts, which are more like essays than press releases, are incisive, rigorous, and witty. 

  • Its Official: Climate is the First Post-Modern Physical Science

    Updated: 2010-06-23 19:24:14
    You can find a lot of different definitions of post-modernism.  Here is one from Wikipedia, which seems appropriate because in some sense at its very core Wikipedia adopts a post-modernist approach to truth.  Post-modernism rejects objective truth, or at least man’s ability ever to identify such truth.   As applied to science, post-modernists would say [...]

  • Epidemic of Ice-Free Arctic Predicted to Spread from Summer into Autumn within this Decade

    Updated: 2010-06-23 16:00:00
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  • Senators, President Will Meet Today To Decide on Cap-and-Trade (For Real This Time?) (Update: Not For Real This Time)

    Updated: 2010-06-23 01:03:21

  • California's Future Energy Mix

    Updated: 2010-06-19 05:08:57
    With its ambitious 33%-by-2020 renewable energy goal, California will be looking for renewable megawatts from all corners of the state.

  • I’m Waiting, I’m Waiting, I’m Waiting…

    Updated: 2010-06-19 01:16:45
    I received this press release via email.  The title is: Carbon Dioxide Has Played Leading Role in Dictating Global Climate Patterns OK, so I read. Increasingly, the Earth’s climate appears to be more connected than anyone would have imagined. El Niño, the weather pattern that originates in a patch of the equatorial Pacific, can spawn [...]

  • But What About Positive Feedbacks?

    Updated: 2010-06-18 15:46:19
    Just what we need — in order to solve a problem greatly exaggerated by computer models that likely will prove to have little predictive ability — we are asked to adopt a “solution” whose costs are just forty cents a day per person.  That’s right — global warming averted for 40 cents a day.  And [...]

  • Scholarship at Mount Allison University

    Updated: 2010-06-17 01:19:05
    This came to me via email today from an email address at Mount Allison University: Funny thing that you are going againts 99% of peer reviewed journal. It is why we do not give retards like you any place it the academic world. I must confess to an error.  I am having a [...]

  • Computer Model Fail

    Updated: 2010-06-16 21:29:23
    From the New Scientist: What’s special about this latest dip is that the sun is having trouble starting the next solar cycle. The sun began to calm down in late 2007, so no one expected many sunspots in 2008. But computer models predicted that when the spots did return, they would do so [...]

  • Defending Science, Not Global Warming Science Per Se

    Updated: 2010-06-16 17:01:47
    This quote from an upcoming paper by Mike Hulme has been making the blog rounds of late: Claims such as ‘2,500 of the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’ are disingenuous. That particular consensus judgement, as are many [...]

  • Five Thousand Gulf Oil Spills

    Updated: 2010-06-16 15:24:55
    That’s the rate that people are releasing carbon to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation today. I know, it’s apples and oranges; carbon in the form of oil is more immediately toxic to the environment than it is as CO2 (although CO2 may be more damaging on geologic time scales). But [...]

  • Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Records – Trends and Ephemerality

    Updated: 2010-06-15 16:39:09
    Guest Commentary from Urs Neu To understand the influence of climate change on tropical cyclone and hurricane activity, it is crucial to know how this activity has varied in the past. There have been a number of interesting new studies of Atlantic tropical cyclones (TCs) and hurricanes (tropical cyclones with maximum sustained winds exceeding 74 [...]

  • “Al Gore Must Come Out With a Sequel to His Film and Call It An Inconvenient Truth 2: What the F*ck Is Wrong With You People?”

    Updated: 2010-06-15 14:28:12
    In one of his recent New Rules segment Bill Maher said that Al Gore should "come out with a sequel to his movie about climate change and call it, An Inconvenient Truth 2: What the Fuck Is Wrong with You People?". He also criticized the media for helping the global warming deniers spread their misinformation [...]

  • "Merchants of Doubt" Traces Roots of Denial

    Updated: 2010-06-15 01:57:46
    What does tobacco have in common with the climate change discussion? Two California science historians connect the dots.

  • Greenpeace activists protests against nuclear energy in Sweden

    Updated: 2010-06-15 00:54:19
    Today Greenpeace activists protested against recent political plans to introduce new nuclear reactors in Sweden. Dressed as different renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and water, and with the help from a old fire truck the activists managed to cross the security fences surrounding the Swedish nuclear plant. Once inside some of the activists [...]

  • Recent trends in CO2 emissions

    Updated: 2010-06-14 01:35:23
    CO2 emissions, growth rates, SRES scenarios, LeQuere and Manning

  • A conclusion of the 4th International Polar Year

    Updated: 2010-06-13 10:47:43
    This week, the “Oslo Science conference” the largest conference ever -it was claimed – was held on polar sciences at Lillestrøm, just outside Oslo. Some of the web-casts from that meeting are worth watching, and I found especially the talk by David Barber (“On Thin Ice: The Arctic and Climate Change”, video link here) [...]

  • A Lot of IPCC Authors Will Be Familiar With This Tactic

    Updated: 2010-06-13 00:25:30
    Claiming “scientific consensus” and “peer reveiw” for findings that have neither The seven experts who advised President Obama on how to deal with offshore drilling safety after the Deepwater Horizon explosion are accusing his administration of misrepresenting their views to make it appear that they supported a six-month drilling moratorium — something [...]

  • Petroleum Is Poison

    Updated: 2010-06-09 16:00:00
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  • Batty Lovelock's Climate 'Get-out' Clause

    Updated: 2010-06-03 15:58:38
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