Tag: Aggregator

From Climate Science Watch: Two decisions handed down July 19 in DC Superior Court affirmed climate scientist Michael Mann’s right to proceed in his defamation lawsuit against the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the National Review Online for their statements accusing him of data manipulation and fraud. The Court is not

Spoiler alert: No it hasn’t-by Climate Nexus

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The R Street Institute, which split from the Heartland Institute after the billboard fiasco, has released a response to Obama’s renewed commitment to tackle climate change. Unsurprisingly, given R Street’s desire for small government, they aren’t happy about the use of a regulatory approach to reduce GHG emissions. Instead they

via Shrink That Footprint

The new layout you see is just the first of many improvements we have in store for the site. In addition to the clean modern look, it will be readable on small screens, so you can catch up on the planetary perspective on the run. If you see something that

“Isn’t it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war

Open Thread for June 2013. Suggested Topic: The recent slowdown in global mean surface temperature has nevertheless been accompanied by increasingly severe large scale circulation anomalies. Should we regard this as good news – that the temperature increase is slow – or bad – that the circulation anomalies are happening

Taylor Wilson, is known as the boy who played with fusion, because at the age of 14 became the 32nd individual on the planet to achieve a nuclear-fusion reaction.

Andrew Weaver, Newly elected Green Party MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head The British Columbia Green Party just made history, voters in the riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head elected Andrew Weaver, Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, and a lead author for a chapter

Recently the Canadian National Research Council has, unfortunately, drastically changed course and abandoned pure science research unless it has clear economic benefits. Many people have written eloquent criticisms of this move by the Canadian government. Phil Plait (at the above link) does a good job of explaining the why the

Simon Donner makes a disturbing point: If you look at the global fossil fuel emissions data, all of the major disruptions to energy and oil use in the past 60 years caused carbon emissions to drop or level off. Annual emissions would later continue to rise at a rate similar

Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III is no smelly hippie. North Korea just annulled the 1953 armistice ending its war with South Korea. China and Japan are locked in a dispute over an island chain. But the greatest long-term threat to the peace of East Asia and Pacific Ocean — the

From Kevin Trenberth: China now emits more carbon dioxide per year than any other country.  They are changing our atmosphere, and by doing so they are changing our climate.   We ought to be outraged!

David Appell’s recent article on the Nocera/Hansen dustup sums up how I feel about the pipeline perfectly: I’m not sure how I feel about the pipeline — or rather, I have opinions about it all but they go in different directions and, like a quantum cat in Schrodinger’s box I’m

… I do not think it means what you think it means. Ottawa pitches the oil sands as ‘green’ Relying on Canadian crude imports is the best choice for the United States – not just because it’s reliable and secure but because of Canada’s unmatched environmental record, Natural Resources Minister