‘Climate’ Archives
A Refundable Federal Tax Credit Could Remove Barriers To Community Wind
by John Farrell, via Energy Self Reliant States Since it will take a battle to extend federal tax credits for wind power anyway, why not make community wind development easier at the same time? Last month, President Obama’s Treasury Department released proposed reforms to a number of business taxes including the federal Production Tax Credit [...]
NASA’s James Hansen Reviews Draft American Meteorological Society Climate Statement: Stronger But Still Inadequate
by James Hansen Many television meteorologists question manmade climate change, including ones certified by the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The society’s statement on climate change is now more than five years old, overdue for a revision. A few months ago, members of Forecast the Facts called on the AMS to pass a strong, [...]
Must-See Video: Has Global Warming Caused A Quantum Jump In Extreme Weather?
“The climate has shifted to a new state capable of delivering rare & unprecedented weather events,” explained Weather Underground director of meteorology and former hurricane hunter, Dr. Jeff Masters. Increasingly, scientists and meteorologists are asking whether global warming is driving a quantum jump — a non-linear shift [...]
Romney Slams Obama’s Proposal To Lower Gas Prices By Reining In Excessive Speculation
President Barack Obama announced today a new proposal to help Americans at the pump by reining in excessive Wall Street speculation. Obama’s proposals include funding for more “cops on the beat” to better monitor market activity, increasing authority at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, raising penalties for illegal [...]
HadCRUT4 data now available
Just a quick note to point out that the HadCRUT4 data are now fully available for download. Feel free to discuss (or point to) any analyses you’d like to see done in the comments, and perhaps we’ll update this post with the more interesting ones. This article was originally posted on Real Climate
Chart Of The Day: Wind Power Helps Drive Strong Increase In U.S. Renewable Electricity Generation
As policy makers in Washington ignore the urgent need to extend federal tax credits for wind, there’s some new data for them to consider. Over the last decade, the number of states generating more than 10% of electricity from non-hydro renewable energy has increased from two to nine. The main driver? Wind. According to the Energy Information [...]
Sensible Ocean Policy Falling Victim To Political Games
Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA) relentlessly attacks the administration's National Ocean Policy even though it would streamline government involvement, eliminate duplication of effort, and ensure taxpayers get more value for their dollars. by Michael Conathan Even in the bitterest partisan times, ocean issues tend to exist outside the traditional [...]
SoCal’s New Sustainability Strategy Is An Impressive Step Forward
by Kaid Benfield, via NRDC’s Switchboard We expect forward-looking sustainability planning from places like Portland, Vancouver and Copenhagen. Los Angeles? Not so much. Southern California is a region much better known for environmental problems than solutions, which is precisely why its new, 25-year Sustainable Communities [...]
Gallup: Public Understanding Of Climate Science Continues Rebounding
To go by the polls, the high point of public understanding of climate science was 2006 to 2008. That’s no surprise, since that period saw a peak in media reporting on climate science, starting in 2006 with An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary of Al Gore’s PowerPoint presentation on climate science, and continuing in 2007 with the [...]
NASA Climate ‘Skeptics’ Respond With Science! Just Kidding
by Dana Nuccitelli, via Skeptical Science Almost exactly two years ago, John Cook wrote about the 5 characteristics of science denialism. The second point on the list involved fake experts. “These are individuals purporting to be experts but whose views are inconsistent with established knowledge. Fake experts have been used extensively [...]
