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Reclaiming the streets
Cars promise mobility, and in a largely rural setting they provide it. But in an urbanizing world, where more than half of us live in cities, there is an inherent conflict between the automobile and the city. After a point, as their numbers multiply, automobiles provide not mobility but immobility, as well as increased air […]
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Peak oil production coming much sooner than expected
A storm is quickly approaching, and the world is not ready for it. The permanent end of the era of cheap oil is coming as soon as next year, according to a raft of official reports that have made their way into energy media over the last few months. Governments are now beginning to acknowledge the looming crisis. Yet, […]
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We should totally nuke the oil spill
According to a Miami Herald opinion writer, one thing that’s getting in the way of stopping the oil spill is our emotional attachment to the Gulf ecosystem. And food. So we should nuke it. Which is kind of like microwaving, but safer, because the Russians do it all the time. Or so says an expert. […]
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Weighing Greenland
Scott Luthcke weighs Greenland — every 10 days. And the island has been losing weight, an average of 183 gigatons (or 200 cubic kilometers) — in ice — annually during the past six years. That’s one third the volume of water in Lake Erie every year. Greenland’s shrinking ice sheet offers some of the most […]
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NASA: Easily the hottest April — and hottest Jan-April — in temperature record
It was the hottest April on record in the NASA dataset. More significantly, following fast on the heels of the hottest March and hottest Jan-Feb-March on record, it’s also the hottest Jan-Feb-March-April on record. The record temperatures we’re seeing now are especially impressive because we’ve been in “the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century.” […]
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My interview on Diane Rehm
You can listen to the full Diane Rehm show here. This didn’t end up being a debate, and I think was pretty informative. Democracy Now! has posted a full transcript of what they bill as “Greenpeace v. Center for American Progress: A Debate on the Kerry-Lieberman Climate Bill.” I don’t really consider it a debate […]
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Kerry Emanuel slams media, asserts Lindzen charge in Boston Globe is “pure fabrication”
UPDATE: I emailed MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel about the smear that Richard Lindzen launched at him with the help of a credulous Boston Globe reporter stenographer. His reply is below. I’ve been bombarded with emails from folks stunned by a shamefully bad Globe article by Beth Daley, “A cooling trend.” It certainly qualifies as […]
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War on science: Alabama’s “True Republican” TV ad mocks evolution
In the current Alabama gubernatorial primary race, there’s some serious mudslinging and general ugliness going on. True Republican PAC recently produced this campaign ad attacking conservative candidate Bradley Byrne for not being conservative enough. His crime? Bradley Byrne might believe in evolution! Technorati reports the story and posts the “True Republican” TV ad: Not to […]
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Solar: not as expensive as the WSJ thinks
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article called “Test Your Solar Power IQ,” that cites the cost of solar power at 25 cents/kWh, or more than double the cost of natural gas or coal. Solar is actually a lot cheaper than that. It’s not the reporter’s fault. She got the figure from a national […]
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Top 10 countries ruining the planet — and more news from around the world
We’re #2! We’re #2! Sure enough, here’s a new study out of the University of Adelaide in Australia, naming the Top 10 Countries Ruining the Planet, and the U.S. isn’t even the leader. It ranks second behind Brazil, followed by China, Indonesia, and Japan. The research focused solely on environmental impact, using seven indicators of […]
