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It’s time to save planet Earth. And our inspiration, once again, comes from JFK
July 19, 2009 I have a new article at Salon, “Goodnight, moon travel.” I discuss how the challenge of averting catastrophic climate change is quite different from the Apollo program – particularly in scale and participation. The public and private sector of this country alone will need an Apollo-level effort every year for the next […]
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Making Buses Cool Again
Transmilenio municipal buses are seen on a street of Bogotá, Colombia (from a post first published here). Transportation is responsible for roughly a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. This means that bold changes in transportation policies — for both the developed and developing world-must be part of solving the climate crisis. The trick is […]
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Deniers misrepresent new study that finds climate models underestimate warming
Bizarrely, climate science deniers are touting a new study that finds we might return to the rapid global warming of the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) with much lower levels of CO2 than previously thought. The PETM’s climate would be quite inhospitable to human civilization. A February Nature article concluded (see “The Garden of Eden had […]
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NCDC: Second hottest June on record — and El Nino “to threaten previous record highs”
Fast on the heels of the fourth warmest May on record, NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center reports: Based on preliminary data, the globally averaged combined land and sea surface temperature was the second warmest on record for June, and the January-June year-to-date tied with 2004 as the fifth warmest on record. NCDC notes that the […]
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Sorry, Buzz Aldrin, we’re not sending people to Mars by 2029
The second man to walk on the moon has an odd op-ed in the Washington Post today, “Time to Boldly Go Once More.” Not surprisingly, he wants to go to Mars, but a key reason he offers – to study climate change – is very strange indeed. Today is the 40th anniversary of the launch […]
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The dangerous myth that the EPA’s endangerment finding can stop dangerous warming
Over and over again, in e-mails and comments and blog posts, I hear some enviros saying that it doesn’t matter if Waxman-Markey fails, since EPA can use the endangerment finding to regulate CO2 as well or better. That dangerously mistaken view would appear to be creating a dangerous apathy among many progressives and environmentalists, as […]
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Nuclear Bombshell: $26 Billion cost — $10,800 per kilowatt! — killed Ontario nuclear bid
We knew new nukes were absurdly expensive (see “Areva has acknowledged that the cost of a new reactor today would be as much as 6 billion euros, or $8 billion, double the price offered to the Finns.”). Now we know they are literally unaffordable. Our friend and fellow blogger, Tyler Hamilton – who actually has […]
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Tim Wirth to natural gas executives: "We're in deep trouble…"
UPDATE: Here is the video of the speech (courtesy of Clean Skies). It is worth seeing since Wirth does not keep to his text and he is very blunt in the Q&A: I have been running a multipart series on how new unconventional natural gas supplies may be a game changer for low-cost climate action […]
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RealClimate debunks myth while advancing another (that warming is linear)
The climate science deniers’ favorite myths are about cooling. They have cooling myths about the past — see “Killing the myth of the 1970s global cooling scientific consensus.” They have cooling myths about the present (asserting that we’ve been cooling since 1998) — see “Very warm 2008 makes this the hottest decade in recorded history […]
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Help for the hurting Potomac
A plastic 55-gallon barrell is seen amongst piles of driftwood and mud along the Potomac River in Cropley, MD. The main culprits for the river’s deteriorating health are agricultural runoff and suburban sprawl due to a booming local population. This CAP post looks at some useful responses. Global warming is on the national and […]
