‘Climate’ Archives
Must-See Video: Congressional Inaction Threatens Middle Class Wind Jobs Across America
Yet again, Congress has been unable to extend vital tax credits for the wind industry, causing incredible uncertainty in the fast-growing wind sector and threatening thousands of jobs across America. With the production tax credit set to expire next December, manufacturers are already seeing a cut back in orders and developers are thinning their [...]
Carbon Time Bomb in the Arctic: New York Times Print Edition Gets the Story Right
Projected carbon emission (in billions of tons of carbon a year) from thawing permafrost. From a 2011 NOAA/NSIDC study with moderate warming and other conservative assumptions. The good news: The best NOAA analysis “suggests we have not yet activated strong climate feedbacks from permafrost and CH4 hydrates.” Climate Progress first [...]
Climate cynicism at the Santa Fe conference
Guest commentary by Mark Boslough* The Third Santa Fe Conference on Global and Regional Climate Change was held during Halloween week. It was most notable for the breadth of opinion — and the span of credibility — of its speakers. I have long complained about the lack of willingness of most contrarians to attend and present their arguments at [...]
Discovery Could Sharply Boost Solar Cell Efficiency at Low Cost
Chart from Emanuel Sachs of MIT with data that is already two years old. Recent discoveries hold the promise of keeping the cost reductions going past 2020. New research on solar energy conversion finds, “the efficiency of conventional solar cells could be significantly increased.” The research was led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The [...]
What Are the Web’s Best 2011 Climate and Energy Blog Posts?
I will be on vacation Christmas to New Year’s, as will Stephen Lacey. And for me this is a real vacation, in that I probably won’t spend even 2 hours a day blogging! Climate Progress will still go on. So if there is a major breaking story, we will cover it. But mostly we will be rerunning the best climate and energy blog posts [...]
GOP Threaten to Harm the Economy If Obama Won’t Embrace Tar Sands Pipeline
GOP Threaten to Kill Tax Relief and Unemployment Extension Over Keystone XL Pipeline, Which Won’t Improve Energy Independence or Create Many Permanent Jobs JR: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said today he will not support a payroll tax cut extension if he is not allowed to shoot this dog (or at least the climate the dog lives in) [...]
Dim Bulbs: Budget Deal Keeps GOP’s Anti-Consumer, Anti-Business, Pro-Pollution Rider Blocking Lighting Standards
The shutdown-averting budget bill will block federal light bulb efficiency standards, giving a win to House Republicans fighting the so-called ban on incandescent light bulbs. You’ll find that misleading lede filed in the Politico under “GOP wins light bulb fight” with the even more misleading blurb, “The budget bill [...]
Facebook Unfriends Coal, Partners with Greenpeace for Clean Energy Future
“After 20 months of mobilizing, agitating and negotiating to green Facebook, the Internet giant has today announced its goal to run on clean, renewable energy. The clear message to energy producers from Facebook is: invest now in renewable energy, and move away from coal power. That’s a status update we can all [...]
L.A. Times: Earth’s Top 10 Biggest Enemies in Congress
Republicans launched an unprecedented frontal assault against environmental protections and regulations this year, prompting Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) to call his chamber “the most anti-environment House in history.” Here are the 10 most powerful and outspoken opponents of clean air, clean water, conservation and climate action. That’s [...]
Curve-fitting and natural cycles: The best part
It is not every day that I come across a scientific publication that so totally goes against my perception of what science is all about. present a study in the journal Global and Planetary Change, claiming that most of the temperature changes that we have seen so far are due to natural cycles. They claim to present a new technique to identify [...]
