‘Climate’ Archives
10 Tips to Reduce Food Waste During the Holidays
UN Food and Agriculture Organization statistics illustrate a dire global problem: We squander nearly one third of our food through food waste (on the consumption side) and food losses (on the production side). In developed countries, over 40% of losses come from companies and consumers throwing out perfectly good food. And on the production [...]
I’m Thankful for Climate Scientists. How About You?
What are you thankful for? To be more precise, what are climate hawks thankful for? It’s been another tough year for climate hawks, which is all the more reason to focus for one day on the positive things. I am thankful for climate scientists, who toil away for long hours away from their family, sometimes in the most inhospitable parts of the [...]
Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me Twice, Shame on the Media: More Stolen Emails Can’t Stop Catastrophic Global Warming, Only We Can
The UK Guardian reports today that the deniers are serving 2-year-old leftovers for Thanksgiving: Fresh round of hacked climate science emails leaked online A file containing 5,000 emails has been made available in an apparent attempt to repeat the impact of 2009′s similar release…. The initial email dump was apparently timed to [...]
Climate-Control Policies Cannot Rely on Carbon Capture and Storage: That’s My Side of The Economist Debates
For the second time, I’m participating in an online debate sponsored by The Economist. The proposition is awkwardly worded, as always, “This house believes that climate-control policies cannot rely on carbon capture and storage.” The debate will be “decided” by online voting, so do go and vote. And, no, I [...]
Two-year old turkey
The blogosphere is abuzz with the appearance of a second tranche of the emails stolen from CRU just before thanksgiving in 2009. Our original commentary is still available of course (CRU Hack, CRU Hack: Context, etc.), and very little appears to be new in this batch. Indeed, even the out-of-context quotes aren’t that exciting, and are even [...]
Over 60 New York Solar Companies Say They Can Help Fox’s Bill O’Reilly Go Solar — Will He Live Up to His Word?
Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly likes to say he operates in a “no spin zone.” So when O’Reilly proclaimed recently that he wanted to install solar on his Long Island home, dozens of solar companies in New York took him at his word. Speaking on his show to Alan Colmes last week, O’Reilly said he was ready to buy a solar [...]
EPA Delays Greenhouse Gas Rules For Oil Refineries
One month after delaying rules for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency has delayed another set of rules for GHG emissions from oil refineries. The delay also comes as new data show a record jump in global greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 — a disturbing record achieved in spite of a feeble [...]
How Media Bias Works Against Clean-Air Rules
by David Roberts, in a Grist cross-post Political reporter John Broder had a long piece in The New York Times chronicling Obama’s decision to delay a tighter national smog standard. I have no desire to relitigate that fight, but I do want to pluck out one particular bit of Broder’s piece to illustrate a point. In a recent piece [...]
In Must-See Video, Bill Moyers Slams Rule By the 1%: “Plutocracy and Democracy Don’t Mix”
One of America’s greatest journalists anticipated the entire Occupy Wall Street protests against the 1% back in 2010: This is from the final broadcast of Bill Moyers Journal, which included an interview with Jim Hightower who said: So, we need a lot more agitation. And that’s the only thing that succeeds from a progressive side in [...]
The IPCC report on extreme climate and weather events
The IPCC recently released the policy-maker’s summary (SREX-SPM) on extreme weather and climate events. The background for this report is a larger report that is due to be published in the near future, and one gets a taste of this in the ‘wordle‘ figure below. By the way, the phrase ‘ET’ in this context does not refer [...]
