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Nature editorial: Hacked emails do nothing to undermine science

Stolen e-mails have revealed no scientific conspiracy, but do highlight ways in which climate researchers could be better supported in the face of public scrutiny. The e-mail archives stolen last month from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, have been greeted by the climate-change-denialist fringe as a propaganda windfall […]

Exclusive with National Renewable Energy Laboratory director

  So I just got a new Flip UltraHD camcorder in preparation for my trip to Copenhagen. Indeed, the entire Center for American Progress team will be outfitted with Flips to bring you as many video interviews as possible with the 20,000 attendees from around the world. I brought it with me to a clean […]

NASA’s James Hansen on hacked emails

Our top climate scientist was interviewed by Newsweek‘s Science Editor last week. Sharon Begley talked to Hansen “on the eve of the publication of his first book, Storms of My Grandchildren, which he finished while recovering from treatment for prostate cancer and which will be published in December.” SB:  Last week, someone leaked emails obtained […]

Phil Jones to stand down as CRU investigator

Professor Phil Jones has today announced that he will stand aside as Director of the Climatic Research Unit until the completion of an independent Review resulting from allegations following the hacking and publication of emails from the Unit. That is from the University of East Anglia’s new release today.  This shouldn’t be a surprise to […]

Kenya to build huge wind farm as drought curtails hydropower

In January, a consortium of Dutch and Kenyan investors will begin construction on the $760 million project, which envisions more than 350 wind turbines towering over desert expanses near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. When completed in 2012, the wind farm is expected to boost the power supply in this nation by almost 30 percent. […]

Journal: Cutting greenhouse emissions has major direct health benefits

Strong action will save millions of lives, improve health of billions “Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” So concluded a Lancet—UCL Commission earlier this year.  Asystematic appraisal of available evidence showed that the risks from changing patterns of disease, food insecurity, unsafe water and sanitation, damage to human settlements, […]

Copenhagen Target Converter

Here’s a useful online tool for converting a major country’s 2020 emissions reduction target from one baseline year to another.

A Canadian view of Copenhagen

  This is an interview with Tzeporah Berman, Executive Director and co-founders of PowerUp Canada.  If you don’t think the U.S. is doing enough, you’ll love what our northern neighbors are (not) doing:   Let’s just look at clean energy. This year in the budget, Obama is outspending Canada 14 to 1 per capita on […]

Why are Hadley and CRU withholding climate data from the public?

No, not the stuff in the stolen emails — although the University of East Anglia and its Climatic Research Unit (CRU) have yet another statement out I’ll excerpt below.  It notes “Over 95% of the CRU climate data set concerning land surface temperatures has been accessible to climate researchers, sceptics and the public for several […]

NOAA: Models indicate El Niño will continue through Spring 2010

We seem to have settled into a moderate to strong El Niño.  NOAA’s latest weekly update on the El Niño/Southern oscillation, “ENSO Cycle: Recent Evolution, Current Status and Predictions“ shows that the key region of the Pacific Ocean has stayed quite warm for all of November (see here for figures and data). The question is […]