‘Climate’ Archives
Nine More Dirty, Aging Coal Plants Set to Close, Bringing Total U.S. Retirements to 106 Plants Since 2010
Today was a big milestone for people who care about public health and a livable climate. Two utilities announced the planned closure of nine coal plants in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, bringing total retirements (executed and planned) since January 2010 past the 100 mark to 106. Two plants in Chicago owned by Midwest Generation, [...]
The Economist Magazine Offers An Illogical, Factually Incorrect Assault on Regulation
Major Federal regulations have documented vast net benefits to Americans of $90 to over $500 billion a year by Laurie Johnson, reposted from NRDC’s Switchboard Last week, The Economist published a series of articles on the impact of regulations on the US economy and businesses. For a magazine normally regarded for insightful analysis, the [...]
Bickmore on the WSJ response
Guest commentary from Barry Bickmore (repost) The Wall Street Journal posted yet another op-ed by 16 scientists and engineers, which even include a few climate scientists(!!!). Here is the editor’s note to explain the context. Editor’s Note: The authors of the following letter, listed below, are also the signatories of“No Need [...]
February 23 News: Chinese Solar Module Prices Fall Below $1 a Watt
Other stories below: Global warming means tough choices for West Virginia; Judge’s Ruling Complicates Hydrofracking Issue in New York Chinese Tier-2 Modules Offered Below $1/W Prices for crystalline-silicon (c-Si) solar photovoltaic (PV) modules fell below the $1/W mark in January 2012, and in some cases well below even that, marking the [...]
Washington Post Embraces False Balance in Flawed Piece on Heartland Affair
NY Times Andrew Revkin Walks Back Some of His “Overstated” Phrases About Peter Gleick — Or Does He? The media loves he-said, she-said stories. Those have the most narrative drama and require the least amount of actual judgment on the part of reporters or editors. Just relate the core facts and then slap some opposing quotes and [...]
Top Three Reasons Cheap Natural Gas Won’t Kill Renewable Energy
I’ll be the first to admit that cheap natural gas prices are one of the biggest short-term threats to deployment of renewable energy in the U.S. today. With a glut of gas dropping prices to historic lows, the competitiveness of technologies like wind, solar PV, and solar hot water are facing significant challenges. But here’s the [...]
Crossing the Line as Civilization Implodes: Heartland Institute, Peter Gleick and Andrew Revkin
Elizabeth Kolbert: It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing. Humanity’s Choice (via M.I.T.): Inaction (“No Policy” — the policy aggressively advanced by most professional disinformers and tacitly [...]
Ethical Analysis of Disinformation Campaign’s Tactics: Reckless Disregard for the Truth, Specious Claims of ‘Bad’ Science
Another Key Denier Tactic: Creation of “Front Groups” by Donald A. Brown, reposted from the Penn State Climate Ethics Blog I. Introduction. This is the second entry in a series looking at the climate change disinformation campaign through an ethical lens. The first entry explained: (1) Why ethics requires great care when considering, [...]
Protesters to Keystone XL Pipeline: Don’t Mess With Texas
Keystone XL protests in Texas included a mix of tea party supporters, independents, Democrats, Republicans and even Occupy Dallas protesters. by Rocky Kistner, reposted from NRDC’s Switchboard As Congressional Republicans and Big Oil allies allies in Washington try to resuscitate the massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, people on [...]
Climate Scientists Slam Heartland for “Spreading Misinformation” and “Personally Attacking Climate Scientists to Further Its Goals”
Scientists Who Had Emails Stolen Ask Heartland Institute to End Assault on Climate Science Heartland Institute documents revealed plans to dupe children and ruin their future, as Climate Progress reported earlier this week. Now, seven leading climatologists victimized by the Climategate email theft in 2009 have published this letter in the [...]
