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House of Commons exonerates Phil Jones
We believe that the focus on CRU and Professor Phil Jones, Director of CRU, in particular, has largely been misplaced…. In the context of the sharing of data and methodologies, we consider that Professor Jones’s actions were in line with common practice in the climate science community…. Likewise the evidence that we have seen does […]
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Pre-order my new book, "Straight Up"
Anyone who has specific ideas for marketing the book or knows someone who might need review copy should email me at the address here. My new book doesn’t come out until the week of April 19th. But you can pre-order it on Amazon.com (click here). You know you want to after getting all these Climate Progress posts […]
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Chu: "A price on carbon is essential"
Do you think that having a price on carbon is crucial? I do. I absolutely believe a price on carbon is essential — that will send a very important long-term signal. [But] if it’s five years from now, I think it will be truly tragic, because other countries, notably China, are moving ahead so aggressively. […]
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TV weathercasters moonlight as climate experts. It’s a problem
This week in TV-news bashing, we learn that significant numbers of TV weathercasters are serving as climate-change experts, without training in climatology but with lots of confidence in their ability to opine on the subject. Here’s what it means for your weekend. Here’s why this forms a perfect storm of poor understanding: Meteorologists tend to […]
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Wind Power Soared Past 150,000 Megawatts in 2009
This piece was written by my colleague J. Matthew Roney at the Earth Policy Institute. Even in the face of a worldwide economic downturn, the global wind industry posted another record year in 2009 as cumulative installed wind power capacity grew to 158,000 megawatts. With this 31 percent jump, the global wind fleet is now […]
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The NY Times once again equates non-scientists with climate scientists
Memo to NY Times: TV weathermen are not climate experts. In fact, Dr. Judith Curry, Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech explained to me a few years ago: Meteorologists are not required to take a course in climate change, this is not part of the NOAA/NWS [National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
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Let’s call setting a price on carbon “puppies”
The Hill’s blog has a post, “Why kill cap-and-trade? Because it’s there.” The NYT’s John Broder had a piece, ” ‘Cap and Trade’ Loses Its Standing as Energy Policy of Choice.” CBS reports of the forthcoming Graham, Kerry and Lieberman bill, “notably missing from it will likely be the cap-and-trade system that had not long ago been expected […]
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IPCC’s Pachauri cleared of financial wrongdoing
The embattled head of the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change has been cleared of allegations of financial irregularity by an independently conducted review. So the Financial Times reported Sunday in its piece, “Climate chief cleared over payments” (reg. req’d). Here’s more: KPMG, the professional services company, examined the personal finances of Rajendra Pachauri, chairman […]
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Hits charade: WattsUpWithThat hypes itself with dubious webstats, while lowballing other blogs March
[JR: Thanks to so many Climate Progress “lurkers” for providing comments below!] One thing is very safe to say about any quantitative analysis you see from Anthony Watts: It is probably BS. See, for instance, Wattergate: Tamino debunks “just plain wrong” Anthony Watts. In his latest piece of misinformation, Watts braggs about his WattsUpWithThat webstats […]
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UPDATE: Vote often for Climate Progress in TreeHugger’s Best of Green Awards
Click here to vote. I’m updating this post because I now see you can vote every day (!) for Climate Progress in TreeHugger’s Best of Green Awards. You’ve got a whole ‘nother week (through April 2) to vote for CP in the category of Best Political Website. Sure, you like the insider’s view of climate […]
