First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mahatmagan103630.html#u2TX2Vy77ly8WMzm.99First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. (Gandhi)First they ignore you, then they… [more]
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 88
Table of Contents
Chapter 90
Chapter 89
The Beating, June 24, 2060
I hadn’t spoken to Jon for 7 weeks. Quite frankly, I wasn’t looking forward to it. I didn’t know what… [more]
(image h/t Mike Haywood)One year of blogging with the frog has been a remarkable learning experience. At this point, I think I have learned enough to conclude that it is better to merge this blog with my other one, “Resource… [more]
The Dark Snow Project is making plans for an expanded presence on the Greenland Ice Sheet this summer. Details are online at Dark Snow Project’s website. We have expanded our alliance with several universities, more scientists, and a diverse team… [more]
Tico Times: Amid one of the worst droughts in recent memory, Costa Ricans already are feeling the damage of extreme weather changes that come with climate change, experts said on Wednesday, at the Climate Vulnerability Forum’s regional workshop, held this… [more]
“The most radical thing you can do is stay home,” – Gary Snyder Wendell Berry – The Mad Farmer’s Liberation Front: Love the quick profit, the annual raise,vacation with pay. Want moreof everything ready-made. Be afraidto know your neighbors and… [more]
A cold winter like the eastern US just experienced plays well on the Fox News narrative “there can’t be climate change”. But polling in the recent past suggests that, in the UK at least, people’s perception of climate change is… [more]
Cartoon drawn by Joshua Cakeburger Drummond as a contribution to the High Water Project, and rooted in bitter experience, I suspect…… [more]
A few days have passed since Lisa Owen’s interview with Antarctic scientists Chuck Kennicutt of the US and Gary Wilson of New Zealand on TV3’s The Nation but I hope it’s still worth drawing attention to. Programmes like The Nation… [more]
This video crossed my field of vision a couple of times but I did not watch it until I saw it posted again at P3, and I am glad I did.
It is really very effective in that typically satirical… [more]
I mentioned in a prior post (2C in our rear-view mirror, geoengineering dead ahead) that the IEA had tweeted out an astonishing statistic, namely that from 2005 to 2012 China had added 150MW of new coal-fired electricity generation every day.… [more]
The Right Wing war on solar power is running up against stiff headwinds, from within their own ranks. Turns out there are still some republicans who believe in personal initiative, competition, innovation, and free choice. The New Republic: It’s a… [more]
The graph above is not a realistic prediction of what the cost of climate change will be to the global economy. It is not meant to be. What it is meant to do is illustrate the relatively slight cost of… [more]
Portillon Glacier is in the Luchon-Bagneres region of the French Pyrenees, just north of the border with Spain. This currently small, and becoming smaller glacier drains into Lac du Portillon, which has a dam impounding it for hydroelectric generation. Like… [more]
Over at Crooked Timber (and on his own blog for the Southerners out there) John Quiggin disposes of the argument that left and right pick the science they like, an argument that the right tosses out like used preservativesBut, far… [more]
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” (Lao Tzu, the Tao Te Ching)Myself ad my sweet wife, Grazia, on an all-electric, battery powered motorcycle. No pollution and no noise, and recharging it with my solar panels… [more]
Brad Plumer, a writer I sincerely hope you follow on Twitter, has a new piece up about the infamous 2C “safe” limit of global warming. This is an absolute must read piece, and I hope everyone reading this site who… [more]
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Sipping from the Internet Firehose…
April 20, 2014
Chuckles, Invective, Pix, COP20+, Post… [more]
I’ve said it before. As solar energy overtakes just about every other competitor, state by state, look for claims about “solar cell syndrome”, and “lowered property values”. It’s a template. Newsok.com Bill may raise utility fees Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin… [more]
Combination of no action on climate change, plus no action on rebuilding a rapidly crumbling, vulnerable grid. Same forces behind both. ClimateProgress: A new report from Climate Central has found that major power outages have increased ten times over since… [more]
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I’m a little delayed on this, but the Keystone decision probably won’t happen until after November elections. In that case we’ll see whether my prediction that it will go down, if delayed that long, gets verified. Roger Pielke Jr’s prediction… [more]
The IPCC has now released all three of the reports that comprise its 2014 Fifth Assessment of climate science. The first report tackled the physical changes in the global climate, while the second addressed climate impacts and adaptation, and the… [more]
The combination of a recently acquired desktop video magnifier and a kindle has for the time being restored some ease to my reading. Hence this review. I was drawn by the title The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change: Values,… [more]
Some background to a strange story that would be merely comical if there weren’t serious issues at stake. Which isn’t to say there isn’t some comedy here.
A cognitive psychologist and his colleagues write a paper linking the denial of… [more]
By Tatiana Yugay The the third post of a series on the crisis in Ukraine by Tatiana Yugay, Professor at the Moscow State University of Economics.P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } “Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of… [more]
It’s a big question. As disruptive technologies of energy production and efficiency take greater shares of the energy service business, can traditional electrical utilities survive? Should they survive? The most desirable outcome may be that they change to accommodate and… [more]
Hat tip to reader todaysguestis for pointing this out in a comment thread. I thought it was good enough to make a post of its own. Dr. Jason Box is interviewed at length on the Greenland ice by Vice Media,… [more]
Bloomberg: Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA), the electric vehicle maker co-founded by Elon Musk, plans to use only raw materials sourced in North America for its proposed $5 billion U.S. battery factory. The Silicon Valley company won’t look overseas for the… [more]
