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I’ve made no secret of the fact that I see no way to get meaningful change in the US’ energy and climate policies — and we’re nowhere close to that goal in either case — until a significant portion of our citizens feel a direct, personal impact and they perceive that the impact will continue until . . . → Read More: Lines, lines, everywhere lines From NASA comes the following map, Global Temperature Anomalies, May 2010: (Please do click through and read the NASA write up that goes along with this image.) Please forgive my hyper-technical analysis, but that’s a buttload of red in the Arctic, Greenland, and a big chunk of Russia. Temps 5C/9F above normal on that part of the . . . → Read More: Map of May temperature anomalies George Monbiot apparently was a wee bit upset with the train wreck known as the Sunday Times’ handling of the “Amazongate” non-story. See Brendan DeMelle’s treatment of the situation, as well as Monbiot’s piece about it in The Guardian, in which he says: The weapon which has turned so cruelly against them is the revelation, paraded in triumph . . . → Read More: Monbiot and Truth:1; the Times: 0 . . . → Read More: Pete Sinclair wraps up Climate(non)gate TreeHugger has some lighting news that should be greeted with raucous cheers from anyone who’s concerned about energy and climate issues: Late last year we reported that the US Federal Trade Commission proposed a new label for compact fluorescent lightbulbs that would show vital statistics like mercury content and the light output in terms of lumens rather . . . → Read More: Smarter lighting, made easy Please take a minute to go see Oil Leak. Two . . . → Read More: Photos from the Gulf For all the truly astounding effort the denier expend in claiming that climate change isn’t happening or it is happening and it’s not Our Fault or it is happening and it is Our Fault but it’s not a big deal (with it is happening, it is Our Fault, it is a big deal, but it’s now . . . → Read More: Deniers and ocean acidification From the abstract of Assessing the climatic benefits of black carbon mitigation (PDF): To limit mean global warming to 2 °C, a goal supported by more than 100 countries, it will likely be necessary to reduce emissions not only of greenhouse gases but also of air pollutants with high radiative forcing (RF), particularly black carbon (BC). Although . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Black carbon impacts I don’t know about youse guys, but the news lately has left me wandering the back alleys of the Intertubes, looking for anything to restore my faith in humanity, or, minimally, make me smile. Luckily, we lives in a (virtual) world where there’s Topless Robot (which is most definitely safe for work, even if the . . . → Read More: Time for a happy break |
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