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China CO2 Measurements May Shift, Analyst Says (emphasis added): An influential Chinese analyst says his country may adjust how it measures carbon emission targets as early as 2020, bringing it more in line with Western governments and signaling a possible opening in international climate negotiations. Xu Huaqing, a senior researcher for China’s Energy Research Institute, was quoted Friday . . . → Read More: China about to announce… something… Fascinating poll results about what people think a reasonable recharge time is for an EV: Vehicle Technologies Program: Fact #702: November 21, 2011 Consumer Preferences on Electric Vehicle Charging: Question: Considering your expected vehicle use, what is the longest time to fully recharge the battery that you would consider acceptable when buying or leasing an electric vehicle? Damn… and . . . → Read More: Acceptable EV charge times If anyone here needed further proof that some days it’s not worth chewing through the leather restraints, we have a new Science paper of more than passing interest. A third effect of anthropogenic aerosols on the climate: In a paper published in the journal Science, Natalie Mahowald at Cornell University reports on a third effect of . . . → Read More: Do anthropogenic aerosols play an even bigger role? The International Energy Agency released their report, World Energy Outlook 2001, this morning. The full press release [emphasis added]: The world is locking itself into an unsustainable energy future which would have far-reaching consequences, IEA warns in its latest World Energy Outlook See Related Publication or Event 09 November 2011 London — Without a bold change of policy direction, the . . . → Read More: Doc alert: World Energy Outlook 2011  2 comments - (Comments are closed)  By the numbers, Climate change, Coal, Natural gas, Oil, Renewable energy, Uncategorized You can’t throw a computer mouse without hitting some site or person talking about the big carbon news from last week regarding the record jump in worldwide carbon emissions, in both absolute terms and carbon intensity. And it should be a big topic, frankly, considering the breadth, depth, and severity of the ramifications of stay . . . → Read More: More on those record carbon emissions 14 comments - (Comments are closed) By the numbers, Climate change, Coal, Natural gas, Oil, Uncategorized Long-term trend in global CO2 emissions; 2011 report – PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency: After a 1 percent decline in 2009, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased by more than 5 percent in 2010, which is unprecedented in the last two decades, but similar to 1976, when the global economy was recovering from the first oil crisis . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Long term trend in CO2 emissions Vehicle Technologies Program: Fact #692: September 12, 2011 Fuel Economy Distribution for New Cars and Light Trucks: Nearly 64% of new cars sold in model year (MY) 1975 had combined highway/city fuel economy of 15 miles per gallon (mpg) or less [blue shading]. By 2010, 63% of cars had fuel economy of 25 mpg or higher [green . . . → Read More: New US vehicle fuel economy Well, it seems that the Arctic isn’t done making things gratuitously interesting for this melt season. We’ve reached that time of year when the daily numbers for Arctic sea ice extent and area[1] are generally declining, but with a little wiggle in the numbers. Historically, we’re one to two weeks from the absolute minimum . . . → Read More: Arctic antics I’ve made no secret of my distaste for the notion that CNG vehicles are a “solution” to, well, anything. Reading some of the ridiculous spin about CNG vehicles makes me wonder if I’m the only person on the planet who [1] thinks climate change is an immense and present danger, and [2] has access to . . . → Read More: CNG vehicles: A cheap, shiny new bridge to nowhere This will have to be extremely brief, for reasons not worth detailing here, but I wanted to revisit one point in Earth: Ground zero for the permafrost bomb. Yes, I missed a term in the permafrost version of the Drake equation, namely the portion of the carbon in permafrost that is likely to be liberated . . . → Read More: Permafrost update |
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