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The Met Office, the national weather service for the United Kingdom, recently came out with some projections about the impact of a 4 degree Celsius. Their point is that unless the world gets serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions right now, the...
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One thing that really surprised me when I started reading up on climate change is that the basic science underpinning the theory of climate change has been around for a long time. A previous post or two has mentioned John Tyndall, the man who discovered t...
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Every once in a while I like to do a bit of a reset to let folks know a bit about who I am, what I have learned to date and what I think we should be doing about climate change. It helps the reader put the words into perspective and it helps me gain per...
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Now that the dust has settled after the speechifying at the United Nations, where do things stand? The big dogs - The United States and China - have made it clear that the most we can look for is a modest slowing of the rate of increase in greenhouse gas ...
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American President Barack Obama and China's President Hu Jintao have found common ground. In a joint appearance at the UN, both men pledged to do less than what scientists around the world have been saying is the bare bones minimum necessary to forestall ...
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As we get near crunch time at Copenhagen, it has become obvious that the United States is not poised to deliver the kind of leadership that other countries would like to see. The plain truth is that America's political system is in the middle of a temper ...
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(Warning to readers: This post isn't your usual save the world stuff, so you might want to stop reading here if you don't want to be bummed out.)
From the earliest civilizations until now is a mere 6,000 years and change. Given the available evidence, th...
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The prevailing belief is that world greenhouse gas emissions must peak by the year 2015 in order to avoid a rise in the average global temperature of 2 degrees Centigrade. The world has pinned its hopes on a process of collective action that began in earn...
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With a couple of sentences, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) stuck a dagger into the heart of any remaining hopes that something useful might come of the climate talks in Copenhagen this December. Okay, so maybe that's a bit melodramatic, but ...
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"Without rich country leadership, we will not get developing country engagement. ... Without developing country engagement, it is impossible for countries like the United States to ratify a Copenhagen agreement." Yvo de Boer, the Executive Secretary...
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I was riding home from work listening to National Public Radio. I know that sounds pathetically leftist, but they have a lot of really interesting programming without all the commercials, which means a lot when your commute only lasts 10 minutes.
Anyhow,...
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I've just finished touring a part of the world's oldest and largest factory. It is an immense structure that runs 24/7 and yet there is not a smokestack in sight. This factory uses no electricity, runs completely on solar power, and requires no workforce....
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China and India have both come out recently and said that there is no chance that their carbon emissions are going to fall any time soon. Both countries have further hinted that they are not going to put much of anything on the table in Copenhagen unless ...
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The Nature Conservancy has come up with a nifty new gadget to help folks get a handle on just how hot it might get in their corner of the world 100 years from now. They call it the Climate Wizard and I have to tell you, it is pretty slick.
You can naviga...
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