‘Climate’ Archives
BP Slick Reached Mississippi While Haley Barbour Went Fundraising In Washington
As significant amounts of oil from the BP disaster moved past Mississippi’s barrier islands this week, Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) partied in Washington DC to raise money for Republicans. TP has the story in this cross-post. On Wednesday, boats were skimming oil near the Petit Bois Island at the Mississippi-Alabama border. Barbour decided to [...]
An ounce of prevention is worth 100 million gallons of cure
From the beginning of this disaster, our response was doomed to be inadequate (see 20-year Coast Guard veteran: “With a spill of this magnitude and complexity, there is no such thing as an effective response”). Guest blogger Shirley Siluk Gregory, who lives on Florida’s Gulf coast, shares her thoughts on lessons learned. While [...]
A new clean energy deployment administration
We need CEDA to help channel private capital flows toward deployment of clean energy in this country. CAP’s Jake Caldwell and Richard W. Caperton, explain why. The U.S. Senate is finally preparing to take action on clean energy and climate legislation. And whatever form the final legislation takes, it must provide tools to drive [...]
Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Records – Trends and Ephemerality
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 [...]
By any other name, “British Petroleum” still smells bad
The NYT reported that the British are now unhappy that some Americans are calling BP “British Petroleum.” So I wrote a humorous column for Salon, which they headlined, “It’ll always be ‘British Petroleum’ to me,” though I was kind of partial to “The British Invasion” or “The B’s [...]
Recent trends in CO2 emissions
Guest commentary by Corinne Le Quéré, Michael R. Raupach, and Joseph G. Canadell There is a letter in Nature Geoscience this month by Manning et al (sub. reqd.) “Misrepresentation of the IPCC CO2 emission scenarios” discussing some recent statements about the growth rates of CO2 emissions compared to the IPCC scenarios [...]
Drive Star: We can cut oil use in half by 2020 – CalCars’ Kramer writes Obama’s JFK energy moonshot speech
“I am not willing to be the latest in a succession of Presidents telling you we’re going to end our addiction to oil. Finally, it’s time to begin. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. If terrorists had poisoned 40% of our wetlands and 25% of our fisheries, we wouldn’t ask, “How much will it cost [...]
A conclusion of the 4th International Polar Year
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 [...]
Cheney’s culture of deregulation and corruption – How Bush Administration inaction created the BP disaster
A look at the culture of deregulation, self-regulation, and corruption ushered in by VP Dick Cheney underscores why the BP oil catastrophe should forever be remembered as Cheney’s Katrina, by CAP’s Joshua Dorner. Big Oil spent millions of dollars to sweep—and keep—George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in the White House. And it got its [...]
American Power Act is a “model” for economic growth
The best analyses available show comprehensive climate and clean energy jobs legislation is a very good investment. CAP’s Richard W. Caperton looks at several recent economic studies. For the last five weeks the Environmental Protection Agency has been analyzing economic impacts of the American Power Act, climate legislation written by [...]
