Bill McKibben chats with David Lettermen about 350.org, his book Eaarth, and a new tour to bring rooftop solar back to the White House (Jimmy Carter installed panels; Ronald Reagan took them down; and students from Unity College in Maine, where they've been stored, are traveling to Washington to have them put back up).
We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be.
John Holdren, President Obama's Science Advisor
A small but growing body of research is finding that elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, while increasing crop yield, decrease the nutritional value of plants.
http://www.grist.org/article/scherer-plantchem
ZAKARIA: Let me ask you, if all this is true, and it doesn’t seem there’s an agreement on how to reduce CO2 emissions, it suggests a fairly bleak future because we’re not going to be reducing CO2 emissions in the short term.
SCHMIDT: Well, I remain a little optimistic that the forces of delay will eventually be put aside. And so I don’t see it as being — as a terribly bleak future because you know, I like to think that we’re smarter than that. And I’d like to demonstrate that societies are
In May 2010 -- five months after the catastrophic coal ash spill in Kingston, Tenn. -- EPA announced that coal combustion residuals (CCRs) will be subject to new regulations to be implemented in summer 2011, though final compliance may not come until as late as 2020. The agency is deciding between two paths, both under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The tougher route would be under subtitle C, which governs hazardous waste. According to EPA, this route "would effectively phas
Worthy of mention.
Proceedings World Geothermal Congress 2000
Kyushu - Tohoku, Japan, May 28 - June 10, 2000�
North Thailand
More than 90 hot springs with surface temperature ranging from 400 to 1000 C are scattered throughout the country (Fig. 1). These geothermal areas are evidently associated with granitic rocks of various ages and major faults nearby. Most of them are manifested by hot pools and seepages although some are by hot springs and geysers.
The Mae Moh Coal Power Plant has 13
Ever see a dog sit in the middle of the road and watch a car coming straight at it and not move until the last second, humans are doing the same thing except Climate Change is the car.
Clean Energy 2030
Google's Proposal for reducing U.S. dependence on fossil fuels
Google's goal in presenting the Clean Energy 2030 proposal is to stimulate debate and we invite you to take a look and comment - or offer an alternative approach if you disagree.
http://knol.google.com/k/clean-energy-2030#
Summar
Global boiling fuels disasters in nuclear nations
Posted By Joe On August 7, 2010 @ 9:20 am In Extreme Weather, National Security
Prior to this year, the hottest temperature in Moscow’s history was 37.2°C (99°F), set in August 1920. The Moscow Observatory has now matched or exceeded this 1920 all-time record five times in the past eleven days, including today….
… soil moisture in some portions of European Russia has dropped to levels one would expect only once every 500 years.
That’s
“We are in the middle of an unprecedented heat wave…We have never had such record high temperatures before. At times I have the impression that I’m somewhere in Italy or in Egypt, but certainly not in Moscow…Frankly, what is going on with the world’s climate at the moment should incite us all (I mean world leaders and heads of public organizations) to make a more strenuous effort to fight global climate change"
"None of us can say what the next summer will be like. The forecasts vary greatly.
"The warming of the climate system is unequivocal." The gases most likely responsible for that warming, such as carbon dioxide, continue to accumulate. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Solar-Power Industry Hits Magic Number
CNBC.com
| 28 Jul 2010 | 12:29 PM ET
While some investors feel they're still waiting for the sun to rise on the solar energy industry, it's already high noon for some parts of the sector.
In some places in the U.S. today, solar photovoltaic, PV, technology—the iconic glass panels being deployed on home and business rooftops—already allows users to beat what their local utility charges for electricity generated from coal-fired power plants.
"It makes se
Natural selection is the process by which certain heritable traits—those that make it more likely for an organism to survive and successfully reproduce —become more common in a population over successive generations. It is a key mechanism of evolution.
EFFICIENCY: Energy efficiency is the cheapest alternative. California has cut annual peak demand by 12 GW – and total demand by about 40,000 GWh — through a variety of energy efficiency programs over the past three decades. Over their lifetime, the cost of efficiency programs has averaged 2-3¢ per kW. If every American had the per capita electricity of California, we’d cut electricity use some 40%.
Thailand
The above EE building was designed and built by Thais, there
4,000: The DOE’s estimate of the dollar cost for a battery delivering 40 miles of electric range (in a plug-in hybrid, for example) in 2015, compared to an estimated $6,700 in 2013 and more than $13,000 in 2009.
5,000: The number of charging stations that Coulomb Technologies plans to deploy at residential and commercial locations in nine metro areas using a $15 million stimulus grant.
10,000: The DOE’s estimate of the dollar cost for the battery needed to give an electric car 100 miles of ran
Run Cars on Green Electricity, Not Natural Gas
While the idea of running U.S. vehicles on natural gas has lately received a great deal of attention, powering our cars with green electricity is a more sensible option on all fronts — national security, efficiency, climate stabilization and economics.
Having a fleet of natural gas–powered vehicles (NGVs) would simply replace U.S. dependence on foreign oil with a dependence on natural gas, another fossil fuel. The United States has scarcely 3
Seattle's upstart new mayor managed to oust its previous green rockstar politician, Greg Nickels with his daily bicycle-commuting, livable streets-promoting, populist charms. He recently unveiled a decidedly un-car-centric transportation initiative called "Walk. Bike. Ride." It offers detailed improvements (within the current budget) for those getting around Seattle by bike. Take a ride with McGinn as he cycles to city hall.
Michael Mann, Penn State professor and climate scientists talks with Susan McGinnis about the investigations that have cleared his name in the "Climategate" scandal. The latest U.K. investigation says Mann's science is good, and the U.N. global warming report is sound.
