The face of climate change should be the poor (not polar bears)
Steve Savage’s latest on global food prices led Steve to emphasize that technology is our primary tool to double food production by 2050. That essential tool is being fought by rich and powerful NGO’s...
View ArticleOxford Physics: The Trillionth Tonne
This is the most concise presentation of the math of climate change – by the physics department at Oxford University. I’m surprised I don’t see more references to this site. Click on the “Find out...
View ArticleThis Is Your Global Food Supply On Climate Change
I think that Steve Savage expresses the climate change connection about right. We won’t know for twenty years if the 2012 weather extremes are expressing a climate change signal. Regardless, the...
View ArticleArctic Sea Ice Poised for a Record Low in September | Climate Central
Here’s a update on the mass/volume of article sea ice by by Michael D at Climate Central The melting season is now fully under way in the high Arctic. Months of relatively warm temperatures and nearly...
View ArticleThe German energy train wreck increases coal burning 5% (already)
Barry Brook tweeted the link to this Yale360 digest which sums up the awful impact of Germany’s no-nuclear policy. Since the 1970′s it has been proven repeatedly, when the growth of nuclear is blocked...
View ArticleRoger Pielke: Hurricanes and Human Choice
Don’t miss Roger Pielke Jr’s discussion of how the severity and damage of Hurricane Sandy stacks up in the broad history of extreme weather events. Hint — it isn’t even close to the big destructive...
View ArticleThe Nanticoke Energy Centre: Ontario’s hub of clean electricity, motor...
A smart article by Steve Aplin: how to convert the Nanticoke coal-fired generating station into a low-carbon source of both electricity and synthetic fuel (which releases the captured carbon when...
View ArticleRoger Pielke Jr on climate action advocates who forget about energy poverty
Of course not all mitigation advocates forget about the poor, but there truly is a strong tendency for the FOE and Greenpeace crowd to focus on the “feel good” activities rich countries can afford....
View ArticleEconomist: Environmental lunacy in Europe, Wood – The fuel of the future
In its various forms, from sticks to pellets to sawdust, wood (or to use its fashionable name, biomass) accounts for about half of Europe’s renewable-energy consumption. One has to ask “What the hell...
View ArticleClimate Pragmatism in the White House
This is good news. The American administration appears to have been reading the Hartwell Paper [PDF] and The Climate Fix. My science policy mentor Roger Pielke Jr. discusses the implications of the...
View ArticleBreakthrough Dialogue 2013 :: June 23 – 25
The Dialogue 2013 opened yesterday. What a panel of speakers – the brainpower sparkles! You can follow along on Twitter with hash tag #dialogue2013. Posted with Blogsy
View ArticleA Common Fallacy in the Energy and Climate Debate
Schalk Cloete is a South African research scientist, currently working in Norway on fluidized bed reactor research. Schalk has recently published a string of excellent energy policy essays, including...
View ArticleA Primer on How to Avoid Magical Solutions in Climate Policy
Roger Pielke Jr. summarizes the most critical points from his work on climate and energy policies that work. Hint, Kyoto is not one of these policies. Any proposed policy should be analyzed in the...
View Article‘To Those Influencing Environmental Policy But Opposed to Nuclear Power’
James Hansen, arguably America’s most famous climate scientist, has been a forceful advocate for nuclear power, including fast reactors such as the IFR that convert nuclear “waste” into zero carbon...
View ArticleThe Explosive Growth of Steel Production in China: Why It Matters
Robert Wilson China's steel industry now consumes two times more energy than global production of wind and solar energy. This disparity illustrates how little has been achieved in transitioning to low...
View ArticleJeffrey Sachs: On climate, more ‘now’ and ‘how’ is needed
John Rennie interviews Jeff Sachs for The Gleaming Retort: Sachs … is also a coauthor, with climatologist James Hansen and a multidisciplinary team of other specialists, of a recent report in the...
View ArticleJames Hansen et al “the accepted 2 degrees target is dangerously too warm”
“Although there is merit in simply chronicling what is happening, there is still opportunity for humanity to exercise free will. I have finally found the time to read the entire Hansen et al paper...
View ArticleGeorge Shultz: Achieving a Better Future
Today I listened to George Shultz's July 23rd conversation at the Commonwealth Club (audio). This was my second review of this talk and Q&A. Soon I will listen to the podcast a third time, but...
View ArticleTwo carbon-reduction paths diverge in the European policy wood: United...
Steve Alpin has several excellent posts up on carbon reduction policies that work (as opposed to Kyoto-style emission reduction goals). In this series Steve references the quadrant-style matrix of...
View ArticleBreakthrough Institute’s Energy and Climate Program
One of the few bits of good news on decarbonization has been the progress that The Breakthrough Institute has made in attracting the best people. By “best” I mean serious people – who are focused upon...
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