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Here’s something else I’m thankful for: Science .
Charles Darwin’s seminal work, On the Origin of Species , was published on 150 years ago this week, November 24, 1859. You can read the first edition online here . The National Science Foundation has an amazing special ...
Environment
Last weekend was a good one for climate-change deniers . A hacker stole and released scores of documents, including personal e-mail exchanges, from a server at Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, a premier climate-change research center. “This is ...
Environment
Global Warming
This guest post is by Julian L. Wong , senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress
Yesterday, the chances improved for meaningful progress at Copenhagen, the UN conference on climate change that is less than two weeks away.
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister ...
Environment
By the end of 2009, there will have been a 50% drop in the levelized cost–i.e. the lifetime cost per kWh before subsidies–of solar power, and a 10% reduction in the levelized cost of other sources of renewable energy sectors compared to the end of 2008. This prediction is a ...
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Gavin Schmidt has done a wonderful job at RealClimate patiently explaining the context of the stolen emails . He’s made it perfectly clear that the claims of scientific malpractice are without foundation. He must be doing a really good job, because the Competitive Enterprise Institute ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen for a U.N. climate change meeting on December 9, hoping to add momentum to an international process despite slow progress on a domestic bill to cut carbon emissions. Obama planned to make a visit at the beginning of the climate negotiations in ...
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NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies posted these fascinating figures last week (click for PDF). Yes, the one place in the world where it warmed the least this year is, of course, the good old (continental) U.S. of A.
I noted last week that NASA reports hottest June to October on ...
Environment
The 2007 IPCC Assessment, the most comprehensive and respected analysis of climate change to date, states clearly that without substantial global reductions of greenhouse gas emissions we can likely expect a world of increasing droughts, floods and species loss, of rising seas and displaced ...
Environment
“A mirror facet for a solar dish is cut on a machine at Tower Automotive in Livonia, Mich. The maker of body parts and other components decided to diversify after its orders from automakers dropped during the downturn.”
Solar energy industry brings a ray of hope to the Rust ...
Environment
Global Warming
Embarrassing climate e-mails will have limited impact
Scientists behaving badly won’t change evidence….
WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Revelation of a series of embarrassing e-mails by climate scientists provides fodder for critics, but experts believe the issue ...
Environment
Embarrassing climate e-mails will have limited impact
Scientists behaving badly won’t change evidence….
WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Revelation of a series of embarrassing e-mails by climate scientists provides fodder for critics, but experts believe the issue ...
Environment
Congress must pass a strong climate bill. The House took an important step in June when it passed a measure with broad carbon-reduction provisions. Now the ball is in the Senate’s court. No one, regardless of political ideology, will be completely satisfied with the final legislation, but ...
Environment
White House hits back on climate critics
That’s the banner headline at the Politico, which reports:
“It would be a mistake to conclude that the international community’s failure to reach a final treaty in Copenhagen is due to a lack of domestic legislation in the ...
Environment
The East Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass for the last three years, according to an analysis of data from a gravity-measuring satellite mission.
That’s from the BBC story . Nature Geoscience just published the study online, “ Accelerated Antarctic ice loss from ...
Environment
I’m rerunning and updating this post from April since so many in the media and elsewhere still seem to be pushing the myth that climate scientists have been overhyping the threat posed by climate, when the reverse is true.
Far from over-playing their hand to swell their research ...
Environment
The Washington Post has published an easily fact-checked falsehood about clean energy — for the umpteenth time (see “ WashPost op-ed page remains the home of un-fact-checked disinformation about clean energy and global warming “). Not surprisingly, columnist George Will is ...
Environment
Obama admin touts clean-air health benefits of clean energy, carbon pollution curbs
The Obama administration trotted out its top environmental and health officials today to tout the public health benefits of slashing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing the nation’s reliance on fossil ...
