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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 […]

Will the Washington Post ever fact check a George Will column?

The Washington Post has published an easily fact-checked falsehood about clean energy — for the umpteenth time (see “WashPost op-ed page remains the home of un-fact-checked disinformation about clean energy and global warming“).  Not surprisingly, columnist George Will is the source (see “WashPost lets George Will publish a third time global warming lies debunked on […]

Vinod Khosla Nonesense

Guess who uttered that piece of nonsense.  I’ll put the answer below the jump — note that the wording of the headline statement contains a tiny clue as to who said it. In any case, you simply can’t top solar for clean power, especially Concentrated solar thermal power Solar Baseload — a core climate solution.  […]

Approaching Copenhagen with a Portfolio of Domestic Commitments

As we approach the beginning of the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen in December, international negotiations are focused on developing a climate policy framework for the post-2012 period, when the Kyoto Protocol’s first commitment period will have ended.  In addition to negotiations under […]

State of the Climate Movement: Can fasting and asceticism save the world?

Despite all the doubts surrounding Copenhagen’s political outcomes, global climate activists can take heart in the fact that the conference may result in the next best thing to a binding climate treaty: a smarter, more galvanized, and re-energized global grassroots climate movement. More than a mere geographical convergence point for our movement, Copenhagen has already […]