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Pew survey finds US public ranks economy as highest priority policy issue, global warming as lowest: The US public is giving the highest priority to economic issues, according to the findings of the Pew Research Center For The People & The Press January 2012 Political Survey. 86% say that strengthening the economy should be a top priority . . . → Read More: Americans have no sense of urgency about global warming If you’re at all plugged into the enviro news via Twitter, RSS feeds, or even blogs (how quaint!), you probably know that the hot news is that President Obama is set to reject the application to build the Keystone XL pipeline. As with almost anything that’s triggered this much emotion and clash of wills (or . . . → Read More: Keystone XL is a lesson waiting to be learned My RSS news feeds are simply bursting at the seams with the news that scientists have figured out that by concentrating on non-CO2 greenhouse-effect emissions we can get a pretty big and speedy bang for the buck. Can we slow down the victory parade for just a moment and think about this? A pretty representative article . . . → Read More: A shortcut to restraining climate change? If you could wave your handy dandy magic wand and create a single technological breakthrough that would make a huge impact on our intertwined climate and energy challenges, you’d be hard pressed to come up with something better than a killer battery. Find a way to make a battery pack that greatly exceeds the range . . . → Read More: Yet another battery breakthrough If you’re itching for a new example of, “this sounds great, but…”, then I’ve got a real winner we can ponder, as described in the article, Carbon dioxide super-scubber? Potential good news in global warming fight.: Using cheap, readily available materials, a team of chemists has developed a new compound for drawing carbon dioxide out of the . . . → Read More: Scrubbing CO2  Comments are closed  Climate change, Coal, Geoengineering, Natural gas, Oil, Public policy, Uncategorized I have to admit that when I read the WaPo piece, Spaceship Earth: A new view of environmentalism, it pegged the needle on my frustration index. Why, might you ask? The title sounds like a metaphor I’d use, after all. That’s precisely the problem, as the piece says: More and more environmentalists and scientists . . . → Read More: Metricene, again NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research & Development Authority) has published Report 11-18 Response to Climate Change in New York State. You can download the synthesis report, i.e. the short version, the long version, or individual chapters from the page linked above. The short version is about 9.8MB and 60 pages, while the long version is . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Response to climate change in NY State The IDFC (Infrastructure Finance Company) has released their India Infrastructure Report 2011. From the Foreword (emphasis added): It may well be true that the most bitter conflicts in the next fifty years will not be over oil but water. Already, almost a billion people in the world live without access to clean water. h e sustainability of . . . → Read More: Doc alert: India Infrastructure Report After a Herculean effort by Durban negotiators to clean the climate change Aegean Stables, we have… what, exactly? I don’t think we’ll know for sure for a while, and it will take years, possibly decades, to see how the entire process plays out. Remember, there was a time when the whole world was excited because the . . . → Read More: As the Durban smoke clears, we see mirrors As I’ve pointed out recently (Greenlock!), we are currently in a state of environmental gridlock. Given the seriousness of that situation and the seeming intransigence of the major parties (China; India; the US and the rest of the OECD), it’s only natural to ask how we get out of this mess. If you strip out all . . . → Read More: Breaking the Greenlock |
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