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It’s the economy, stupid!

With the employment news today about 100,000 jobs better than expected — “the nation’s employers had all but stopped shedding jobs in November” — I thought I’d run this graph Nate Silver posted a couple weeks ago in a post titled, “It’s [Still] The Economy, Dumbass.” Nate wrote “this is my favorite graph in quite […]

Bismarck Tribune editorial: Alternative energy jobs pay green

It’s no dig to say North Dakota has a long and profitable relationship with lignite coal. And it will likely continue. But make no mistake, the development of alternative energy sources, and the accompanying “green” jobs, will not be turned away. As the Tribune has said before, the state is best served by an energy […]

Graham says Obama has his back on climate bill

Sen. Lindsey Graham may be under fire from conservatives back home in South Carolina. But the Republican got a personal assurance from President Obama yesterday that the White House is supporting his efforts to craft a sweeping Senate energy and global warming bill. “The president told me personally he was very open, that nuclear power […]

Senator Byrd stunner:

Change has been a constant throughout the history of our coal industry. West Virginians can choose to anticipate change and adapt to it, or resist and be overrun by it. One thing is clear. The time has arrived for the people of the Mountain State to think long and hard about which course they want […]

Climate scoreboard tracks Copenhagen progress in real time

The Climate Scoreboard is a new, easily accessible tool for understanding and tracking the global climate change negotiations in real time. This new online resource– an embeddable widget, a short video, and a set of graphs, and a table — reports, on a daily basis, the long-term climate implications of proposals to the United Nations negotiations […]

John Holdren on the hacked emails and the state of climate science

  I’ll post Lubchenco’s equally terrific opening statement — which includes a couple of science demonstrations (!) on ocean acidification — when they are up. You can see all the videos and photos here. Here is the closing statement of Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.): Here is the Q&A period of Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.):

What percentage of warming is due to humans vs. natural causes?

NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt continues to do terrific blogging at RealClimate explaining climate science and the immateriality of the illegally hacked e-mails to our broad understanding of human-caused global warming.  That, of course, is why the anti-scientific ideologues are going after him so hard (see “Competitive Enterprise Institute to sue RealClimate blogger over moderation policy“). […]

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 […]