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Washington Times: “Obama digs in on global warming”

The Washington Times is the other DC newspaper, the “conservative” one.  That’s assuming you can call the primary DC paper — the one that loves un-fact-checked op-ed pieces attacking climate science and clean energy and that is now run by former Wall Street Journal editors — not conservative (see “Washington Post recycles another disinformation-filled WSJ […]

Countdown to Copenhagen: Foundation for a Low Carbon Future

In December 2009, twenty thousand people, including about 40 heads of state, will converge in Copenhagen to decide how the world responds to escalating climate change over the next half century. If successful, the meeting of 192 member countries of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will send a clear signal to business […]

Where is all the damn climate data?

Oh, here it is.  Never mind….

Wash. Times: “China vows to dramatically slow emissions growth.”

China promised to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade — a major move by the world’s largest emitter, whose cooperation is crucial to any deal as a global climate summit approaches.Beijing’s voluntary pledge Thursday came a day after President Barack Obama promised […]

Science historian Weart on global warming

Spencer Weart: My most interesting conversations were with historians who have been studying the history of the tobacco companies that did their best, and quite successfully for many years, to cover up the fact that smoking kills people by the million.  Some interesting parallels, but… So begins a fascinating interview of Weart on the illegally […]

India aims for 20 gigawatts solar by 2022

We’ve seen that the “New U.S.-India Green Partnership improves prospects for global climate deal.”  But Treehugger has more on the world’s most populous democracy (and the photo is B Balaji via flickr). First,”It’s Finally Official – India’s National Solar Mission Aims for 20 Gigawatts Solar Power by 2022“: Rumors and draft reports have been circulating […]

Michael Mann updates the world on the latest climate science

Michael Mann, one of the country’s leading climatologists, has coauthored a major new review and analysis of climate science since the 2007 IPCC report.  Mann, Director of Pennsylvania State University’s Earth System Science Center, is much attacked by the anti-scientific disinformers because of his work on the paleoclimate “hockey stick” reconstructions of temperature over the […]

Evolution of Evolution

Here’s something else I’m thankful for:  Science. Charles Darwin’s seminal work, On the Origin of Species, was published on 150 years ago this week, November 24, 1859.  You can read the first edition online here.  The National Science Foundation has an amazing special report which you can access by clicking here or on the image […]

“Many , including us, find deniers’ claims irresponsible.”

Last weekend was a good one for climate-change deniers. A hacker stole and released scores of documents, including personal e-mail exchanges, from a server at Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, a premier climate-change research center. “This is not a smoking gun; this is a mushroom cloud,” proclaimed one skeptic. […]

New Energy Finance: Solar power 50% cheaper by year end

  By the end of 2009, there will have been a 50% drop in the levelized cost–i.e. the lifetime cost per kWh before subsidies–of solar power, and a 10% reduction in the levelized cost of other sources of renewable energy sectors compared to the end of 2008.  This prediction is a result of detailed quarterly […]