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The climate blogosphere erupted yesterday with the news that Bjorn Lomborg has a new book coming out that seems to reverse his bottom-line conclusion on climate change. While I haven’t read the new book, I think a fair summary of his pre- and post-pivot positions would be: Pre-pivot: Climate change is real but it’s not a . . . → Read More: The Lomborg Pivot Rick Piltz, over on ClimateScienceWatch has a thought provoking piece that begins by talking about Stephen Schneider and quickly turns to the thorny question of what the proper role is for climate scientists in society. (I shouldn’t have to point out this post to you, as Piltz’s site is without question one you should be . . . → Read More: Pondering the role of scientists I’m still catching up after being away for three days, but I want to make sure the following post by Jeff Masters from Friday doesn’t escape your attention, Danielle a Cat 4; Earl more organized; Northwest Passage opens for 4th year in a row. The part that prompted me to post comes near the end . . . → Read More: Jeff Masters nails the importance of the Northwest Passage opening Andy Revkin, of the NY Times’ dotEarth blog, has once again proved to all of us, like me, who think we finally have figured out where he’s coming from that we’re really wrong. This time around, it’s a dE post, On Harvard Misconduct, Climate Research and Trust, that doesn’t have me shaking my head, but . . . → Read More: Revkin’s flaming train wreck, Lou’s change of plans As always, the answer depends on semantics. If by “greenhouse” one means a completely controlled, artificial environment, operated by human beings, i.e. a big machine for maintaining an optimal growing environment for particular types of plants, then the answer is, by definition, “yes”. If you mean the warming environment, where humans have triggered climate . . . → Read More: Plants grow well in a greenhouse, right? Thanks to all the (deserved) attention we’ve been paying to the floods in Pakistan, the landslides in China, the heat wave and fires in Russia, the roughly 300 hundred forest fires in British Columbia, etc., it’s no surprise that peak oil isn’t right at the top of everyone’s mind. Of course, reality doesn’t care what . . . → Read More: About that whole “peak oil” silliness… [PLEASE do not just skim this post and then move on to the next thing competing for your time. I normally don't beg for eyeballs, but I'm going to do that, and more, this time, because of the severity of the situation in Pakistan.] It’s hard to overestimate the magnitude of the tragedy that’s still unfolding . . . → Read More: Helping and learning from Pakistan It has just come to my attention that the scitizen.com repost of my recent piece on Pakistan (their version: The compounding crisis in Pakistan, my version: The compounding crisis in Pakistan) made it look as if I had plagiarized two sources, when I had not. (I also took a snapshot of the page via WebCite: http://www.webcitation.org/5s7hcoRvR, in . . . → Read More: Misuse of my work One site that doesn’t (yet) seem to have a large following, but certainly should, is Climate Ethics. If you sometimes tire of the verbal jousting that absorbs so much bandwidth on energy and climate blogs, and would like to find a place that has fewer, but longer and much more thoughtful posts, give CE a . . . → Read More: Communicating about climate change ethics The US Dept. of Energy issued their monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook on AUgust 10th, which includes this text: Forecast economic growth combined with increased use of coal and natural gas is expected to contribute to increases in fossil-fuel CO2 emissions of 3.4 percent in 2010 (U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Growth Chart). Projected coal-related CO2 . . . → Read More: US emissions predicted to rise |
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