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Worldwatch Institute has released a freely downloadable document, Low-Carbon Energy. From the summary on the report’s web page: Technologies available today, and those expected to become competitive over the next decade, will permit a rapid decarbonization of the global energy economy. New renewable energy technologies, combined with a broad suite of energy-efficiency advances, will allow global energy needs . . . → Read More: Document alert: Low-Carbon Energy The news feeds are burning up with the latest hair-raising detail about the global climate, based on a multi-year study due to be published today in Nature. Sub-Arctic timebomb: warming speeds CO2 release from soil: Climate change is speeding up the release of carbon dioxide from frigid peatlands in the sub-Arctic, fuelling a vicious circle of global warming, . . . → Read More: Tundra news Yes, I know–most people think public policy is about as exciting as watching old paint peel. I respectfully differ, simply because it’s a critical link between what citizens need and want from their government and what they actually get, once you go through all the pork barrel politics, paid influence, cronyism, etc. A few public policy-related . . . → Read More: Public policy matters Joe Romm, indefatigable blogger, defender of truth, and gleeful denier slapper, has posted a devastating video in, The video that Anthony Watts does not want you to see: The Climate Denial “Crock of the Week”. Please watch it (embedded just below), and don’t do what I normally do when I encounter such posts, which is read the . . . → Read More: Inconvenient reality strikes again This time of year, there’s a lot of talk about what the ice at the top of the planet is doing, so here’s an Arctic ice eye candy round up. Consider it a brief right-brain vacation; I’ll get back to flow charts and numbers and other left-brain things soon. On September 15-16, 2007, at the time . . . → Read More: GOTW: Ice extent At times, the synchronicity in one’s news feeds can be positively stunning… Utility PACs Generous to Key Lawmakers in Climate Debate: Large electric utilities that rely heavily on coal poured money into re-election campaigns as the House shaped and passed landmark climate legislation, a bill that helps those businesses partly sidestep its toughest provisions. Employee-run committees for American Electric . . . → Read More: Follow the money Humor can be a very scarce thing in energy and environmental news. I say this as someone who’s in total immersion mode in this river of bits and seldom gets a smile, let alone an out-loud, spit-take-inducing laugh from something that surfaces in my RSS or Twitter feeds. Yet it happened this morning when . . . → Read More: Funniest and saddest enviro line ever Quite some time back I invented the Inhofe Scale, which “will be used to measure statements (but most definitely not the speakers who make them) that exhibit a noticeable and willing detachment from reality. The scale is calibrated so that 100 equals the detachment seen in Senator Inhofe’s “greatest hoax”, polar bear, and Mars quotations, seen . . . → Read More: Inhofe breaks the Inhofe Scale Try as hard as you like, but there’s simply no way any one person can keep up with all the online resources related to either energy or environmental issues. Try to track both, and you risk turning yourself into a blithering idiot. One site I wish I’d known about sooner, and just stumbled over while looking . . . → Read More: Site alert: Circle of Blue Green Car Congress: University of Calgary Study Finds Large-Scale Adoption of PHEVs in Alberta Could Support Wind Power; PHEV GHG Benefits Range from 40-90% in Emissions Reduction: The environmental benefit of a large-scale deployment of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in the Canadian province of Alberta could vary significantly, ranging from a 40% to a 90% reduction . . . → Read More: Document alert: PHEVs and Alberta |
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