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It’s hard to read the energy and climate news some days and not hear a frustrated Vince Lombardi, the legendary US football coach, shouting, “Does anyone here know how to play this game???” That’s precisely the reaction I had last night when I ran into a couple of articles, one concerning the coal industry and the other . . . → Read More: Dueling train wrecks (Click image for the full size version in a new window.) Notice that this map is showing anomalies (meaning deviations from the 1971-2000 base period), not absolute temps. Quite a few big red dots over the US, especially on the east coast. I suppose that given our demonstrated myopia this is a good thing, as it will . . . → Read More: It’s hot out there, and the NOAA has the pix to prove it ScruffyDan has an excellent post up about a meme we all hear from time to time, a rebuttal of the notion that we should “save the planet”. Dan takes on a piece by Robert Laughlin, which seemingly goes out of its way to concoct a world view in which proving the trivially obvious, namely that “saving the . . . → Read More: ScruffyDan must read on “saving the planet” The NRDC has issued a new report that finds “More than One Out of Three U.S. Counties Face Water Shortages Due to Climate Change”: More than 1,100 U.S. counties — a full one-third of all counties in the lower 48 states — now face higher risks of water shortages by mid-century as the result of global warming, . . . → Read More: Doc alert: NRDC on Water Risk One of the most fascinating things about technological developments is watching them make it to market as real world products and services available to consumers. This process is almost always slower than we’d like (everything looks simpler to those of us who don’t have to do the work to make it happen, after all), and . . . → Read More: Electrified transportation hits the knee in the curve Speaking of those natural indicators of climate change I mentioned in my review of Henry Pollack’s A World Without Ice, we have two more examples: Coral reefs suffer mass bleaching: High ocean temperatures this year are being blamed for the bleaching, which experts fear could be worse than a similar event in 1998 which saw an estimated 16 . . . → Read More: The coral is dying, the Great Lakes are heating up The US Government Accountability Office has released COAL POWER PLANTS: Opportunities Exist for DOE to Provide Better Information on the Maturity of Key Technologies to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions [PDF]. From the report’s “What the GAO found” page: DOE does not systematically assess the maturity of key coal technologies, but GAO found consensus among stakeholders that . . . → Read More: Doc alert: GAO on coal plants and CCS Henry Pollack’s book, A World Without Ice (Amazon listing), arrived last year, but it’s still probably “new to you”, since it’s received much less attention than I think is warranted. Pollack’s focus, as the title suggests, is the cryosphere, basically the ice in the Arctic, Greenland, and Antarctica that has done so much to stabilize our climate . . . → Read More: Book review: A World Without Ice My wife and I just got back from a few blissfully disconnected days in the Finger Lakes, which means I’ll be hacking through new feeds for the rest of today and a goodly size chunk of tomorrow. Good thing we brought home some delightful bottles from various Cayuga Lake wineries — I’ll need the sustenance… So, . . . → Read More: Catching up via link farm While hacking through my news feeds tonight, I came upon the following comment on the blog Rabett Run, in the post Rabett Run: A simple puzzler: Monckton has now posted at WUWT asking for people to flood Abraham’s university with calls for disciplinary action. As a consequence, I have posted this: We the undersigned offer unreserved support for . . . → Read More: Monckton and Abraham: Now it gets ugly |
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