‘Climate’ Archives
One more reason that recent U.S. polling on global warming is down slightly
A large majority of Americans continue to understand that global warming is real. In fact, warming of the climate system in recent decades is “unequivocal,” according to comprehensive analysis of observations around the globe by the world’s leading climate scientists. Most of the decline in understanding seen in recent polls comes from [...]
Global cooling bites the dust: Hottest January followed by second hottest February. Now March is busting out.
Last month, NOAA reported the world experienced the warmest January in both satellite records. And NOAA just reported (here) that it was the second warmest February on record in both satellite records. Now the UAH satellite data shows record-smashing temperatures in the first half of March: The yellow line is the 20-year average [...]
Graham, Kerry, Lieberman share details of bipartisan climate and clean energy jobs bill with industry groups
UPDATE: More details at the end. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Kerry (D-MA), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) “shared an eight-page outline of their draft legislation that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next four decades, including provisions to limit business costs while ramping up domestic production of oil, gas and [...]
How clean cars and climate policy can create jobs
Reducing America’s dependence on imported oil will not only enhance our national security; it will create substantially more jobs than continuing on our current path of waste and unsustainable resource use. CAP has teamed up with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the United Auto Workers to produce a new study on the clean car [...]
World has much at stake in nuclear power decision – Brookings Institute and GPPI nuclear conference
At a quiet lakeside retreat house in Potsdam, Germany, 35 people met this month to discuss the future of nuclear power. Guest blogger and nuclear economics expert Craig Severance was one of the attendees. He discusses his insights in this repost. Severance is co-author of “The Economics of Nuclear and Coal Power” (Praeger 1976) and a [...]
Up is Down, Brown is Green (with apologies to Orwell)
In the alternate universe of Fox News, Anthony Watts, and many others, up is down. Now, it appears, brown is green. Following the total confusion over the retraction of a paper on sea level, claims of another “mistake” by the IPCC are making the rounds of the blogosphere. This time, the issue is the impact of rainfall changes on the [...]
The best argument against global warming
Dr. Peter Gleick is co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. He wrote a great op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle, with that terrific Matt Groening cartoon: Here is the best argument against global warming: . . . . Oh, right. There isn’t one. There is [...]
Sealevelgate
Imagine this. In its latest report, the IPCC has predicted up to 3 meters of sea level rise by the end of this century. But “climate sceptics” websites were quick to reveal a few problems (or “tricks”, as they called it). First, although the temperature scenarios of IPCC project a maximum warming of 6.4 ºC (Table SPM3), the upper limit of [...]
Vote for Climate Progress in TreeHugger’s Best of Green Awards
Why should you vote for ClimateProgress in TreeHugger’s Best of Green Awards 2010 Readers Choice in the category of Best Political Website (click here to vote)? Sure, you like the insider’s view of climate science, solution, and politics delivered every day to you for free. But the other nominees are pretty darn good, too. Well, [...]
More on sun-climate relations
Four new papers discuss the relatiosnhip between solar activity and climate: one by Judith Lean (2010) in WIREs Climate Change, a GRL paper by Calogovic et al. (2010), Kulmala et al. (2010), and an on-line preprint by Feulner and Rahmstorf (2010). They all look at different aspects of how changes in solar activity may influence our climate. The [...]
