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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 […]

CEI to sue RealClimate blogger over moderation policy

Gavin Schmidt has done a wonderful job at RealClimate patiently explaining the context of the stolen emails. He’s made it perfectly clear that the claims of scientific malpractice are without foundation. He must be doing a really good job, because the Competitive Enterprise Institute intends to sue him. That’s computer scientist Tim Lambert aka Deltoid […]

NASA figures compare 2009 to the two hottest years on record

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies posted these fascinating figures last week (click for PDF).  Yes, the one place in the world where it warmed the least this year is, of course, the good old (continental) U.S. of A. I noted last week that NASA reports hottest June to October on record*, but the figure […]

Contest — Rename “Climategate” after the crime, not the victim

Embarrassing climate e-mails will have limited impact Scientists behaving badly won’t change evidence…. WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Revelation of a series of embarrassing e-mails by climate scientists provides fodder for critics, but experts believe the issue will not hurt the U.S. climate bill’s chance for passage or efforts to forge a global climate change […]

Satellite data suggests "that EAST Antarctica is losing mass"

The East Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass for the last three years, according to an analysis of data from a gravity-measuring satellite mission. That’s from the BBC story.  Nature Geoscience just published the study online, “Accelerated Antarctic ice loss from satellite gravity measurements.”  It begins, “Accurate quantification of Antarctic ice-sheet mass balance and […]

UK Guardian: "Scientists must stop sanitising their message”

I’m updating this post from April since so many in the media and elsewhere still seem to be pushing the myth that climate scientists have been overhyping the threat posed by climate, when the reverse is true. Far from over-playing their hand to swell their research coffers, scientists have been toning down their message in […]