Monday, October 17, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
The New York Times Asks “Where Did Global Warming Go?” While Ignoring Its Own Failed Coverage
The New York Times Asks “Where Did Global Warming Go?” While Ignoring Its Own Failed Coverage: p The New York Times is one of many major news outlets blowing the story of the century (see “Silence of the Lambs: Media herd’s coverage of climate change “fell off the map” in 2010“). The one-time “paper of record” cut coverage sharply since its peak in 2006 and 2007 and failed to connect the [...]/p
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
‘Guns & Patriots’ Editor Creates Fake Solar Scandal About SunPower, Murdoch’s Fox News Misinformers Run With It
‘Guns & Patriots’ Editor Creates Fake Solar Scandal About SunPower, Murdoch’s Fox News Misinformers Run With It: pMisinformed editor claims SunPower is getting a $1.2 billion loan guarantee, equating it to Solyndra. Note to real reporters: SunPower isn’t even getting the loan guarantee — it is simply building a 250-MW solar PV project for the global energy company NRG. When Total, the 14th largest oil and gas company in the world, bought [...]/p
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Eight Must-Have Charts Summarize the Evidence for a “Human Fingerprint” on Recent Climate Change
Eight Must-Have Charts Summarize the Evidence for a “Human Fingerprint” on Recent Climate Change: pClick to Enlarge The Yale Project on Climate Change Communications asked Americans “If you had the opportunity to talk to an expert on global warming, which of the following questions would you like to ask?” The top question, as reported in their “Global Warming’s Six Americas in May 2011” report, is “How do you know that [...]/p
Solar and Wind Could Power the West Right Now, All of America in 2026
Solar and Wind Could Power the West Right Now, All of America in 2026: pby John Farrell, in two posts that came from Energy Self-Reliant States The Germans have installed over 10,000 megawatts of solar panels in the past two years, enough to power 2 million American homes (or most of Los Angeles, CA). If Americans installed local solar at the same torrid pace, we could already power most [...]/p
Record Heat Causes Peanut Butter Prices to Skyrocket: “I Don’t Remember A Year” We Had “So Little Moisture”
Record Heat Causes Peanut Butter Prices to Skyrocket: “I Don’t Remember A Year” We Had “So Little Moisture”: p“The drought conditions should sure that have plagued farmers this growing season have taken a toll on the area’s peanut crop. Withered blooms, burned pods and few undeveloped peanuts define this year’s peanut crop for many area farmers.” (Photo/Jaine Treadwell) First, we heard that climate change could decimate the chocolate industry. Now it’s peanut butter. [...]/p
Friday, October 7, 2011
Robert Bryce Raises Climate Denial To New Levels Of Stupid
Robert Bryce Raises Climate Denial To New Levels Of Stupid: p“The science is not settled, not by a long shot,” writes disinformer Robert Bryce in the Wall Street Journal. “Last month, scientists at CERN, the prestigious high-energy physics lab in Switzerland, reported that neutrinos might—repeat, might—travel faster than the speed of light. If serious scientists can question Einstein’s theory of relativity, then there must be [...]/p
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Media Bias: Solyndra v. Keystone XL
Media Bias: Solyndra v. Keystone XL: pIn recent weeks, email communications between Obama administration officials and corporate executives at energy companies have come to light. Television coverage of the Solyndra photovoltaic company’s bankruptcy has been wall-to-wall, with over 190 mentions and 10 hours of coverage (led by Fox News) between Aug. 31 and Sept. 23. Meanwhile, emails from the permitting process [...]/p
Top 10 Reasons Why Renewable Energy Wins — On Solyndra, Silver Bullets and Solar Buckshot
Top 10 Reasons Why Renewable Energy Wins — On Solyndra, Silver Bullets and Solar Buckshot: pThis GreenTechMedia repost is a joint effort of the solar industry supergroup: Doug Payne, Donnie Fowler, Danny Kennedy, Ned Harvey, Tom McCalmont, Jigar Shah By now the financial, political, and emotional fallout from the recent Solyndra bankruptcy filing is running at full tilt. Print, online, and social media channels are filled with the appropriate questions about what [...]/p
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Organized Climate Change Denial “Played a Crucial Role in Blocking Domestic Legislation,” Top Scholars Conclude
Organized Climate Change Denial “Played a Crucial Role in Blocking Domestic Legislation,” Top Scholars Conclude: pThe Denier Industrial Complex (Click to Enlarge) Two leading scholars have written an excellent analysis of what I’ve been calling the Denier Industrial Complex. Riley E. Dunlap, a sociology professor at Oklahoma State, and Aaron M. McCright of Michigan State call it the “climate change denial machine” in their book chapter, “Organized Climate Change Denial,” [...]/p
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
German State Minister: We Can Decarbonize With Renewables Because “We Don’t Have the … Koch Brothers”
German State Minister: We Can Decarbonize With Renewables Because “We Don’t Have the … Koch Brothers”: pA state in Germany’s industrial heartland is moving quickly to replace nuclear power with renewable energy, a transition that supporters say could be applied in the United States to reduce our reliance on coal. The state of Baden-Württemberg, home to Mercedes-Benz and a strong manufacturing sector, faces abrupt changes to its energy systems as Germany [...]/p
Monday, October 3, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
NASA’s Hansen: “If We Stay on With Business as Usual, the Southern U.S. Will Become Almost Uninhabitable.”
NASA’s Hansen: “If We Stay on With Business as Usual, the Southern U.S. Will Become Almost Uninhabitable.”: pClimatologist Slams Media for “Silent Summer”: Poor Coverage of Link Between Extreme Weather and Human-Caused Climate Change The nation’s top climatologist, NASA’s James Hansen, has a new paper out — and he has been speaking out. At 350.org’s Moving Planet event in New York on Saturday, he said: “Climate change — human-made global warming — [...]/p
Wake Up Democrats: Independents Support Federal Investment in “Green Jobs” 2-to-1 Despite Solyndra Media Storm
Wake Up Democrats: Independents Support Federal Investment in “Green Jobs” 2-to-1 Despite Solyndra Media Storm: pIn dozens of focus groups we have conducted this month across the country on a wide variety of subjects, when voters are asked where they would like new jobs in their state to come from, the first words out of their mouths are almost always the same – clean energy and related technology. Voters believe [...]/p
Too Hot for Chocolate? Climate Change Could Decimate the $9 Billion Cocoa Industry, Study Finds
Too Hot for Chocolate? Climate Change Could Decimate the $9 Billion Cocoa Industry, Study Finds: pGlobal warming threatens heat-sensitive cocoa trees, a Gates Foundation study finds Half of the world’s cocoa supply comes from the West African countries of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. But in the coming decades, climate change could severely limit production in the region — disrupting local farmers and squeezing global chocolate supply. A new report out [...]/p
An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts: How We Know Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces
An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts: How We Know Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces: pHumanity’s Choice (via M.I.T.): Inaction (“No Policy”) eliminates most of the uncertainty about whether or not future warming will be catastrophic. Aggressive emissions reductions dramatically improves humanity’s chances. In this post, I will summarize what the recent scientific literature says are the key impacts we face in the coming decades if we stay anywhere near [...]/p
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
We’re Poisoning the Oceans and It Threatens Our Food
We’re Poisoning the Oceans and It Threatens Our Food: pby Sheril Kirshenbaum, in a Science Progress cross-post Marine chemist Richard Feely, a senior scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, has been collecting water samples in the North Pacific for over 30 years. He’s observed a decrease in pH at the upper part of the water column, notably the region where carbon dioxide [...]/p
Friday, September 23, 2011
Hottest Decade on Record Would Have Been Even Hotter But for Deep Oceans — Accelerated Warming May Be On Its Way
Hottest Decade on Record Would Have Been Even Hotter But for Deep Oceans — Accelerated Warming May Be On Its Way: pA composite of all the major global temperature records via Skeptical Science. The last decade was easily the hottest on record. We’ve known that sulfate aerosols (from volcanoes and/or Chinese coal) and the “the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century” masked the rate of warming somewhat. Even so, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies [...]/pjavascript:void(0)
Thursday, September 22, 2011
The Deniers’ Fantasy World: EIA Projects 40% Rise in CO2 Emissions by 2035
The Deniers’ Fantasy World: EIA Projects 40% Rise in CO2 Emissions by 2035: pThe U.S. Energy Information Administration issued its International Energy Outlook this week. For anyone concerned about the uncontrolled rise in carbon emissions — the primary heat-trapping gas fueling dangerous global warming — it paints a very grim future. Under a business-as-usual climate science deniers’ fantasy scenario, the EIA projects that global carbon dioxide emissions will [...]/p
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Contrary To GOP Claims, Research Shows Environmental Regulation Actually Spurs Economic Growth
Contrary To GOP Claims, Research Shows Environmental Regulation Actually Spurs Economic Growth: pBesides President Obama, Republicans vying for the presidential nomination have made government regulations their favorite punching bag on the campaign trail. Without exception, the candidates have scapegoated “burdensome regulation” for stifling job creation and economic growth — ignoring that a lack of regulation enabled the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession. Environmental regulations [...]/p
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Global Warming May Cause Far Higher Extinction of Biodiversity Than Previously Thought
Global Warming May Cause Far Higher Extinction of Biodiversity Than Previously Thought: pIf global warming continues as expected, it is estimated that almost a third of all flora and fauna species worldwide could become extinct. Scientists … discovered that the proportion of actual biodiversity loss should quite clearly be revised upwards: by 2080, more than 80% of genetic diversity within species may disappear in certain groups of [...]/p
Monday, September 19, 2011
National Solar Jobs Census: Over 100,000 Americans Work in Fast-Growing Solar Industry
National Solar Jobs Census: Over 100,000 Americans Work in Fast-Growing Solar Industry: pThis Thursday, Republicans in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are holding a hearing called “How Obama’s Green Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs.” Could they make their ideological opposition to clean energy any more clear? The Solyndra bankruptcy and subsequent layoff of 1,100 workers has given opponents a platform to rail on green jobs [...]/p
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
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