Author: Dan Moutal

Rio+20 has come and gone. It ended in the traditional fashion for UN environmental summits with the nations of the world agreeing that, at least in principle, it would be preferable to prevent wide-scale degradation of the planet’s natural systems. Furthermore world leaders have agreed that action should be taken,

This is more absurd than the usual drivel from ClimateDepot: We need to redefine sustainable development as oil, gas, coal Related posts (randomly generated) China going green? The carbon capture and storage myth Questions about clean coal and carbon capture and storage UN finds global inequality rising

Is anyone here interested/hopeful in RIO+20? Personally after watching year after year of UNFCCC meetings agree to do something about GHG emissions… at some unspecified point in the future, I have little hope that Rio+20 will produce anything useful. Though I’d love to be proven wrong. Related posts (randomly generated)

Roger Harrabin asks: Is ‘peak oil’ idea dead? So here’s another worry – not that we have too little oil and gas, for the time being at least. But that we have too much if we want to enjoy a stable climate. No related posts.

Yes, that is an absolute hyperbole. Did it get your attention? Yesterday the Canadian House of Commons passed the disastrous bill c-38 that rolls back much of Canada’s environmental protection legislation. Opposition parties mounted a desperate attempt to make amendments or at least split off some of the more contentious

I don’t see what the problem is. These were ethical oil spills, weren’t they? Related posts (randomly generated) About those radical foreign interests opposed to the latest tar-sand pipeline [UPDATED]

Farming on the outskirts of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.One of the most densely populated agricultural areas on the planet The challenge of feeding the estimated 10 billion people by 2050 on an already stressed agricultural landscape without further degrading the state of the planet will be an enormous task.

For the record no one here at Planet3.0 is surprised: Researchers averaged the results from a number of climate models, and compared that to global temperature records for the upper 700 meters of the ocean from 1960 to 1999. The temperature record is less complete for the deep ocean, and

A beautiful picture from the North Pole webcams (H/t the Arctic Sea Ice Blog) Related posts (randomly generated) Ice-free North Pole? What really happened to the sea ice this summer We can’t let the Russians get away with this Polar bears added to endangered list Arctic sea ice melting fast,

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In North America coal use might be down thanks to the abundance of cheap natural gas but the global perspective looks very different: According to the latest BP Statistical Review of World Energy, coal consumption grew 5.4 percent in 2011 and coal production grew by 6.1 percent, giving the resource

Elinor Ostrom, Nobel-prize-winning economist of common pool resources, died of cancer this week, aged 78. Her final published article was green from the grassroots here are some excerpts: Decades of research demonstrate that a variety of overlapping policies at city, subnational, national, and international levels is more likely to succeed

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the restart of two idle nuclear reactors Saturday amid widespread public opposition, more than a year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Power Plant, and halted all 50 reactors in Japan… Saturday’s decision comes as the government scrambles

A simple graphic illustrating what we need to do to actually reduce our emissions: With no meaningful climate policy commitment – no binding emission limits, no carbon pricing, not even a clean energy standard – the awesome work of building a clean energy economy is proceeding in parallel to the

Steve Easterbrook shows the power of simply tilting your head: By putting the dates on the Y-axis and temperatures on the X-axis, and cutting off the graph at 2°C, we get a whole new perspective on what the models runs are telling us. For example, it’s now easy to see

Looks like an independent investigation done at the behest of the Pacific Institute has confirmed that Peter Gleick did not write the disputed fakegate memo And an independent digital forensic investigation done at the behest of Heartland institute found that the disputed memo was not created on Heartland’s computer system

Have a few minutes? Then take a survey. It is part of a study being conducted at the University of Western Australia. Related posts (randomly generated) Mentally ill more likely to vote for Bush NASA Phoenix Lander has successfully landed on Mars! Africa’s big game ‘could roam US plains’ How