It would be so entertaining, wouldn’t it? Can someone please cut through the BS for me and explain what is going on with their dueling posts on this Berkley Earth Temperature Station business? Romm’s latest contains not one but two “bombshells,” a “wow” and a “double wow.” He also says that he meant all along to…Continue Reading…
From Bloomberg News: Saudi Aramco and China National Petroleum Corp. agreed to build a 200,000 barrel-a-day refinery in southern China as producers seek to meet rising fuel demand in the world’s fastest-growing major economy. Same. As. It. Ever. Was. Might as well enjoy this classic from one of the best concert movies evah.
Pinetop Perkins, who just passed away at the age of 97, was one of those ageless blues musicians. Jeez, I first saw him over two decades ago at the old Lone Star Cafe in Manhattan (I miss that iguana on the roof!). Here he is going strong at 95. Here’s how he lived life in his…Continue Reading…
If you thought assigning attribution of individual weather disasters to global climate change was tricky business, imagine trying to establish a causal link between specific ecological problems and global warming. In this commentary in Nature Climate Change, ecologist Camille Parmesan and her co-authors suggest not going there. It’s not that they think global warming doesn’t adversely…Continue Reading…
Cleo Paskal, whose book I reviewed last year, has a smart piece on what’s being left out in risk assessments for energy installations: First, due to changing environmental conditions (sea level rise, subsidence, changing storm activity, etc.), historical records may no longer be reliable predictors for future risks. For example, the summer of 2003 was…Continue Reading…
A military analyst/scholar, explaining why he’s recently turned down media requests to appear on TV, echoes Jon Stewart’s infamous diatribe.
If you’re a fan of Time’s Ecocentric blog, as I am, you may have noticed that all 12 of their posts last week focused exclusively on Japan’s nuclear crisis. This from a site whose tagline claims A blog about all things green, from conservation to Capitol Hill The narrow nuclear-centric focus continues into this week,…Continue Reading…
A new study provides an interesting public opinion comparison between Canada and the U.S. Of the 11-page report, Tim Scolnick at Desmogblog says perhaps the most surprising feature is that in Canada, in spite of the fact that the Conservative Party has held power for just over five years, all the while opposing any action to cap…Continue Reading…
A “reformed climate skeptic” has just published an intriguing book, titled Deep Future, which this article calls the long, long view on climate change. I find the book’s purpose fascinating, given that we can’t see our way to thinking several decades ahead, much less thousands of years into the future. Still, I welcome this new dimension to…Continue Reading…
A China analyst advises that dethroning coal from its dominant position in China’s energy hierarchy will be exceptionally difficult, even assuming optimistic scenarios of deploying other energy sources. What does this realistic outlook imply? Therefore, it is imperative to simultaneously focus on developing clean coal and carbon technologies.