Before it's too late (latest polls look bad for the prop). My story in the VC Reporter: The money quote, from Fran Pavley, who authored AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, the legislation signed into law in California in 2006: “It’s not just that these oil companies are trying to protect their bottom line,”Continue reading “The truth about Prop 23: get it now!”
Category Archives: climate
Climate karma: Texas to catch hell
According to the EPA, Texas emits a far higher volume of greenhouse gases than any other state — more than 676 million tons a year. For the sake of context, that's more than many entire regions put together; more than twice as much as Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Utah combined, for instance. CaliforniaContinue reading “Climate karma: Texas to catch hell”
China attacks U.S. in climate negotiations
From Tiajin, an inside look at climate talks being hosted by Chinese. Reporting is from Angel Hsu, of Yale University, in the Atlantic: [Chinese negotiator] Su's comments in the corridors of the Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center reflect his obvious frustration with what he feels is hypocrisy on the part of the U.S. in the climateContinue reading “China attacks U.S. in climate negotiations”
The future won’t be futuristic, says Douglas Coupland
Or it won't feel futuristic, according to Douglas Coupland, one of our most visionary novelists (inventor of the great phrase McJob, which today seems more apt than ever). Of the future, he says: It's simply going to feel weird and out-of-control-ish, the way it does now, because too many things are changing too quickly. TheContinue reading “The future won’t be futuristic, says Douglas Coupland”
As sun warms slightly, earth cools slightly — wha?
The always helpful MIT/Knight Science Journalism Tracker points to a slew of stories about a counterintuitive, to say the least, study in Nature that finds that during a three-year period from 2004-2007, when solar radiation rose a little, global temperatures slightly declined. In the measured words of The Independent: The sun's role in climate changeContinue reading “As sun warms slightly, earth cools slightly — wha?”
The biggest and fastest thing nature has ever done
Reporting on the behavior of ice sheets is difficult, even for science journalists, because the terrain is so difficult, and so much is still unknown about Antarctica. But a couple of weeks ago in Rolling Stone, Ben Wallace-Wells published the single best story about this subject I have ever seen. It's long, but great. Here'sContinue reading “The biggest and fastest thing nature has ever done”
Will reducing carbon emissions really make a difference?
Even granting that the climate is changing, reducing carbon emissions could make a huge difference when it comes to rainfall in these United States. That's according to a recent presentation by Tom Karl, director of a NOAA climate center, at a national conference in D.C. in May. But what's really shocking is how much moreContinue reading “Will reducing carbon emissions really make a difference?”
The politics of climate change denial, worldwide
From George Monbiot: Australian politics provides yet more evidence that climate science divides people along political lines. [Tony] Abbott is no longer an outright denier, though he still insists, in the teeth of the facts, that the world has cooled since 1997(5). Some members of his party go further: Senator Nick Minchin, for example, maintainsContinue reading “The politics of climate change denial, worldwide”
Scary graph of the day: Arctic sea ice
Via ClimateProgress: Commenting on the trend, Mark Serreze, director of the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center told the Vancouver Sun: There are claims coming from some communities that the Arctic sea ice is recovering, is getting thicker again. That's simply not the case. It's continuing down in a death spiral. Serreze may be thinkingContinue reading “Scary graph of the day: Arctic sea ice”
The “Kochtopus” and climate change
The political blogosphere has been buzzing about a huge story in The New Yorker by Jane Meyer on "the Kochtopus." To put it in short, just as Hillary famous said, there really is a vast right-wing conspiracy, funded by $100 million from the ultra-right-wing Koch brothers, who run a fossil fuels empire. The amount ofContinue reading “The “Kochtopus” and climate change”
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