One of the things I try hard to do as I sift through the landslide of E/E news items that parachute into my awareness daily is separate out the “high multiplier” items. That’s not as simple as looking for large percentage changes in some projected cost or impact (even though high multiplier items often have . . . → Read More: Surprises abound
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[Several times on this site and elsewhere online I've referred to my "virtual daughters", i.e. my three nieces, seen below with me on Christmas Day 2009[1]. Less often than I should have I’ve said that concern for their future is my primary motivation for staying engaged with energy and environmental issues. Intergenerational responsibility is . . . → Read More: An apology to Sam, Britt, and Kim Makiko Sato and James Hansen have a web site to provide updated graphics from Hansen’s new book, Storms of My Grandchildren. The graphics site is Updating the Science. While the (new, barely populated) site is definitely worth checking out and bookmarking, my point in this post is to talk about a comment in the tweet that . . . → Read More: Let ‘er rip (Hat tip to SP.) For more on the insanity of bottled water, . . . → Read More: Snake oil, indeed Time for a little critical thinking boot camp, thanks to a piece I just stumbled upon. Oil And Environment: A Contradiction: Among the factors in systemic collapse that should be placed far down on the list are many that might be described as environmental: pollution, global warming, and so on. The fact is that the issue of peak . . . → Read More: Peak oil vs. climate chaos Ross Gelbspan, a journalist with a long and highly regarded track record, has a 23-minute video talking about the efforts by the fossil fuel industries to block action to stop climate change. It’s chilling and infuriating, and it deserves the widest possible viewership. So here it is: (Hat tip . . . → Read More: Gelbspan: “Stealing our reality” The [US] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory released their China Energy Primer [220 page, 6.6MB PDF] in November. From the preface: Based on extensive analysis of the China Energy Databook Version 7 (October 2008) (here after Databook v.7.0), this Primer for China’s Energy Industry (here after Primer) draws a broad picture of China’s energy industry with the two goals . . . → Read More: Document alert: China Energy Primer We all know the classic definition of chutzpah–the child who kills his parents and then begs the court for mercy because he’s an orphan. I’m beginning to think the deniers are trying to challenge that mythical achievement with their real world antics. Case in point: Factcheck: Patrick Michaels Falsely Blames Comments in Stolen Emails for Resignations at Climate . . . → Read More: Denier spin I’ve been engaged in several discussions, N-1 of them being in private e-mail, about what exactly China did in Copenhagen and what this predicts about humanity’s ability to address climate chaos in the next few decades. I think it’s reasonable to summarize my position in these discussions with the following borderline oversimplification: China blew up Copenhagen. In the constant parade of “the climate situation is worse than we thought” articles that keep assaulting our remaining optimism, probably no single finding could be more worrisome than the most basic, i.e. that the environment is more sensitive to the atmospheric level of CO2 than we thought. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what two recently published . . . → Read More: Twitchy, twitchy world |
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