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Leaks imperil nuclear industry: The nuclear industry, once an environmental pariah, is recasting itself as green as it attempts to extend the life of many power plants and build new ones. But a leak of radioactive water at Vermont Yankee, along with similar incidents at more than 20 other US nuclear plants in recent years, has kindled . . . → Read More: Infonugget: Nuclear leaks Yesterday I posted briefly about China’s adamancy that no one hold them to any binding agreement regarding their emissions. (See Infonugget: China: Voluntary only restrictions, please) In that post I said, “India is also going the intensity route, but I’m not sure where they stand on the binding nature of any pledges.” If anyone was . . . → Read More: India officially joins the climate chaos stupidity parade China Insists That Its Steps on Climate Be Voluntary: As a Sunday target date approaches for countries to submit to the United Nations their plans for fighting climate change, China is banding together with other major developing nations to stress that only the wealthier countries need to make internationally binding commitments. So while China, the world’s largest . . . → Read More: Infonugget: China: Voluntary only restrictions, please I don’t talk too much about nuclear power here, for a very simple reason: I don’t think there’s much interesting to say about it. I’ve been saying since the very earliest days of this blog that our future would have plenty for people on every part of the political spectrum to hate. More nukes . . . → Read More: Nuclear predictions FACTBOX – Big emitters signal support for Copenhagen Accord: Countries accounting for at least two-thirds of the world’s industrial greenhouse gas emissions have signalled their support for the low-ambition “Copenhagen Accord” on combating climate change. Governments are meant to tell the United Nations by Jan. 31 if they want to be associated with the accord, worked out last . . . → Read More: Infonugget: Climate inaction Not long after making my Polar update post earlier today, I stumbled across some more images, related specifically to the lengthening of the melt season:
Source: NASA’s Earth Observatory Image of the Day (emphasis added): According to this analysis, the average length of the continuous melt season in the Arctic increased by 6.4 days per decade between 1979 . . . → Read More: Polar update 2 The news from both ends of the planet is not exactly cheering of late. Up top, we find out that the Arctic ‘Melt Season’ Is Growing Longer, New Research Demonstrates: New NASA-led research shows that the melt season for Arctic sea ice has lengthened by an average of 20 days over the span of 28 years, or . . . → Read More: Polar update If you want to whip an energy and climate geek into a frenzy, there are a few go-to topics, the two most prominent being nuclear power and coal. A couple of interesting items appeared in Google Reader today regarding coal that I thought were definitely worth your time. First is The Future Of Coal Power Will . . . → Read More: Coal’s future Steve Easterbrook has a short, terrific piece up about Bill Gates’ recent opining about how we need “innovation not insulation”, Bill Gates is very wrong (emphasis added): In a blog post that was picked up by the Huffington post, Bill Gates writes about why we need innovation, not insulation. He sets up the piece as a choice . . . → Read More: Overcoming Gates’ cosmic fail Everyone loves “best of” and “worst of” lists, including, some would say especially, those who claim not to like them. The Guardian has published a short article with a list of the top 50 books on sustainability, and it’s a pretty solid list. What are your top green books?: “What’s your favourite ‘green’ book?” I get asked this question . . . → Read More: The top 50 green books |
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