‘Climate’ Archives
Blockbuster IPCC Chart Hints at Dust-Bowlification, But Report Is Mostly Silent on Warming’s Gravest Threat to Humanity
A USA Today (not IPCC) chart emphasizes the risk of drought in heavily populated areas. The IPCC Special Report “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX)” is now online. I had seen the previous draft and the changes to it, so I knew that it was a big missed opportunity, as I explained [...]
Congress is Killing Wind Energy Jobs, Says Bipartisan Governors Group: No Wonder It’s Less Popular Than Nixon or BP
I’m not sure how many open letters I’ve read over the years from businesses and state-level political leaders urging Congress to extend short-term tax credits to renewables. It’s a lot. And it’s kind of sad that I’m still reading them. The latest letter, written by a bi-partisan coalition of governors who support wind [...]
Scientific confusion
“We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.” I read this quote on a wall on Mark Cane’s office at LDEO (Columbia) [...]
Why is Discovery Channel Cutting Climate Change Episode From Popular, Groundbreaking Series?
by Jocelyn Fong, in a Media Matters repost For the past few weeks, we’ve had to wait patiently while our friends across the Atlantic enjoy the BBC’s seven-part Frozen Planet series on life at the poles, which won’t air in the U.S. until the new year. This sequel to Blue Planet and Planet Earth – two of the greatest programs [...]
GOP Rep. John Fleming Claims “Solyndra Affair Has Harmed More People Than Hydrofracking”
by Jessica Goad This morning, the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on the future of oil and natural gas development — the 20th oversight hearing that House Republicans have called on drilling, compared to only four on renewable energy development. While Rep. Don Young (R-AK) took home the quirk prize by sporting a [...]
November 15 News: TransCanada Says it Will Relocate Keystone Pipeline — Will it Impact the Next Review?
Other stories below: CIA Urged to be More Open About Climate Change; Lawmakers Scrutinize Foreign Aid to China TransCanada says it will work with Nebraska on new pipeline route TransCanada said Monday that it will work with Nebraska on a new route for its controversial Keystone XL pipeline that would avoid the Nebraska Sandhills, a unique [...]
Climate and Energy Ignorati at New York Times Run Yet Another Error-Riddled Story Attacking Clean Energy
On an average yearly basis, renewables represent a small fraction of the total government investments in the energy sector (O&G is Oil & Gas) Can you write a 2300-word article trashing clean energy subsidies that is so utterly devoid of crucial context for the readers that it Ignores the vast, documented benefits of clean [...]
Clean Energy Has Highest Documented Rate of Return of Any Federal Program, But the WashPost Cluelessly Smears the Effort
The National Academy of Sciences concluded in 2001 that a handful of clean energy technologies returned about $30 billion on an R&D investment of about $400 million. The United States is an amazing venture capitalist when it comes to clean energy R&D. But the all-Solyndra, all-the-time stenographers of the status quo at the Washington [...]
Utility CEO on Solar: In “3 to 5 Years You’ll Be Able to Get Power Cheaper from the Roof of Your House Than From the Grid”
CEO of NRG Energy: The fundamental issue of our day climate change…. The people who were opposed to climate change legislation used one of two tactics. They either said, “Well, we don’t believe it’s happening.” Which, of course, is just a bald-faced lie. Or the second part of the one/two punch is, “We can’t afford to [...]
Despite Industry Ties, DOE Fracking Panel Warns of “A Real Risk of Serious Environmental Consequences” Absent Regulation
It is the Subcommittee’s judgment that if action is not taken to reduce the environmental impact accompanying the very considerable expansion of shale gas production expected across the country – perhaps as many as 100,000 wells over the next several decades – there is a real risk of serious environmental consequences and a loss of public [...]
