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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 […]
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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. […]
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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, […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Are the oceans the future of food?
If the the future of food is hazy right now due to overconsumption, globalization, and climate change, the future of seafood is even murkier. The global fish catch topped out sometime in the 1990s, leaving many fish populations more or less permanently overstressed. Aquaculture has grown to satisfy rising global demand – but fish farms […]
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‘An overwhelming bias toward inaction’
Anyone who wants any kind of reform in this country need to grapple with Ezra Klein’s important and clearly argued insight into our current system of “government”: The U.S. Congress is hostile not only to liberal power, but also to conservative power, and for that matter, to majority governance. The rules trump the election, trump […]
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Hamlet’s lessons for climate negotiators
I’ve been threatening my editors with a post on what Shakespeare’s Hamlet can teach the diplomats gathering next week to draft a new international climate treaty. Hamlet being a fictional Danish prince, and Copenhagen being in Denmark and … OK, it’s a flimsy hook. Don’t care. As I write this, I’ve got 12 hours of […]
