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The Washington Post goes tabloid
It is no longer possible to hide the decline of a once great newspaper, no longer possible to hide the decline of the paper that broke the Watergate story, but is now hanging itself on the Climategate story (see James Fallows’ blog). The newspaper that just editorialized, “Many — including us — find global warming […]
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iPhone Copenhagen App: COP 15 Navigator
Here’s a way to keep track of Copenhagen on your iPhone — COP 15 Navigator: This application is brought to you by the UN climate change secretariat (UNFCCC) to provide quick and easy access to essential information about COP 15 and to allow virtual participation in the event. COP 15 will be the biggest climate […]
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World Meteorological Organization and NOAA agree
Global Warming Is Not Slowing, New Analysis Says Good NYT headline, though this isn’t really “new analysis.” I pointed last December that the climate story of the decade is that the 2000s are on track to be some 0.2°C warmer than the 1990s based on NASA’s data (see “Very warm 2008 makes this the hottest […]
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Association for the Advancement of Science reaffirms evidence
he American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has reaffirmed the position of its Board of Directors and the leaders of 18 respected organizations, who concluded based on multiple lines of scientific evidence that global climate change caused by human activities is now underway, and it is a growing threat to society. “The vast […]
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56 Papers in 45 Countries Publish Joint Editorial
Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last […]
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Time on hacked emails
Bryan Walsh has a long analysis in Time magazine that is well worth reading: “The Stolen E-Mails: Has ‘Climategate’ Been Overblown?“ He finds no significant impact on our understanding of the science — like most sober looks at the issue: Nature editorial: “Nothing in the e-mails undermines the scientific case that global warming is real […]
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The EPA to the rescue?
On Monday, the first day of Copenhagen, the EPA announced that it has the authority to regulate greenhouse gases, which is a none-too-thinly-veiled warning to Congress that if it doesn’t act the EPA may.
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Political smarts key to success for Australia’s green tech industry
As I boarded my flight back to California in Brisbane, Australia, last Wednesday, I received an email alert that the Australian Senate had just defeated the Labor government’s climate change legislation. Only days earlier victory seemed all but assured, allowing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to go to Copenhagen with an iron-clad, albeit weak, agreement in […]
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1,000 WVU students petition college to flunk big coal barons
Calling on their campus to move beyond coal — and use previously donated coal company contributions to honor fallen Crandall Canyon coal miners, not MSHA-fined coal barons Bob Murray and Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship — the West Virginia University Sierra Student Coalition presented over 1,000 petition signatures to WVU president Jim Clements today. The […]
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Flooding in Freetown
Most people love their home town. But what if you lived in a regularly flooded slum? Kroo Bay is a community of 16,000 people living at the bottom of a valley in Freetown, Sierra Leone separated from the sea by a rubbish dump. During the rainy season once or twice a year, and with increasing frequency, the whole area floods.
