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USGBC jobs finds green building to support millions of U.S.jobs
USGBC/Booz Allen Hamilton Report Shows Green Construction to Contribute $554 Billion to U.S. GDP Between 2009 and 2013. The U.S. Green Building Council is having its huge annual conference now — you can watch live streams and archived videos of the leading experts on clean energy and energy efficiency here. And they just released a […]
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Why solar energy trumps coal power
The color of solar cells — and their short energy payback — are trivial factors when considering the huge climate benefit they provide in avoiding the release of CO2 from the combustion of fossil fuels. That was a central point in my first post debunking the error-riddled book Superfreakonomics. By failing to retract the many […]
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Veterans Day, 2029
This post is an update of Memorial Day, 2029. The two worst direct impacts to humans from our unsustainable use of energy will, I think, be Dust-Bowlification and sea level rise, Hell and High Water. But another impact — far more difficult to project quantitatively because there is no paleoclimate analog — may well affect […]
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Maryland county draws a “car-free blueprint for growth”
Montgomery County redefined the way it will grow in the next two decades when lawmakers endorsed a plan Tuesday that encourages development where residents can easily live a car-free lifestyle. The County Council, after weeks of intense debate over the county’s growth policy, unanimously agreed to give developers discounts to build dense developments near transit […]
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Must-see video of Sen. Kerry grilling AEI’s Kenneth Green
Senator Kerry: Has your study been peer reviewed? Kenneth Green: No, I don’t work in the peer review literature, Senator. I don’t work for a university. Steven Hayward, the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, recently said, “The brain waves of the American right continue to be erratic, when they are not flat-lining.” […]
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Why Senator Inhofe is going to Copenhagen
Thousands and thousands of climate science advocates — including me — will be in Copenhagen next month trying to advance an international deal that gives the world a chance to avoid catastrophic global warming. And then there will be the man even the Washington Post calls “the last flat-earther,” Sen. James Inhofe (R-OIL). Why is […]
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Baucus supports a climate bill and knows it will pass Congress,
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) knows that his state’s trees are being ravaged by warming-driven pests now and that Montana faces 175% to 400% increase in wildfire burn area if we don’t reverse course sharply and soon on greenhouse gas emissions. That’s why he supports strong climate action and said last week, “There’s no doubt […]
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Voters in Ohio, Michigan and Missouri support climate action
Polling from 3 key states — and 5 key districts — finds strong support for the climate and clean energy bill. Every major recent poll has come to the same conclusion (see Swing state poll finds 60% “would be more likely to vote for their senator if he or she supported the bill” and Independents […]
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El Niño-driven sea surface temperatures still soaring.
Last week I noted “El Niño-driven sea surface temperatures are soaring. Forecast: Hot and then even hotter.” They are still soaring. NOAA’s National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center has a good animation of tropical Pacific SST anomalies: The warming in the Nino 3.4 region of the Pacific is typically used to define an El Niño […]
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Veteran wins groundbreaking claim for Agent Orange exposure at Georgia military base
A U.S. veteran living in Tennessee has won what’s thought to be the first Veterans Administration claim for exposure inside the continental United States to Agent Orange, an herbicide that was used by the military to clear jungles during the Vietnam War. Agent Orange — which got its name from the color of the barrels […]
