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  • IPCC report card
    Update: Nature has just published a thoughtful commentary on the report The Inter-Academy Council report on the processes and governance of the IPCC is now available. It appears mostly sensible and has a lot of useful things to say about improving IPCC processes – from suggesting a new Executive to be able to speak for IPCC [...]

  • Doing it yourselves
    Surface temperature data sets, surfactemperatures.org, Hadley, Broberg, GSOD, McShane and Wyner, paleoclimate reconstructions, BAMS State of the Climate 2009

  • The Key to the Secrets of the Troposphere
    A response from Justin Wood, writing to me from Australia after my previous post (cited with permission below), has prompted me to write a follow-up on the story of the greenhouse effect (GHE). I wonder if you’ve seen this terrible description of the greenhouse effect on a UNFCCC background page? http://unfccc.int/essential_background/feeling_the_heat/items/2903.php It actually says that incoming [...]

  • Monckton makes it up
    Christopher Monckton, Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, making stuff up.

  • Texas Oil Companies Funding Campaign to Overturn California Clean Energy Law
    California’s clean energy law, Assembly Bill 32, is under attack from Texas oil companies that are orchestrating a campaign to repeal the legislation. AB 32, which was signed into law in 2006, aims to reduce carbon emissions from California to 1990 levels by 2020. An organized group, lead by Texas based oil refining giant Valero, [...]

  • Expert Credibility in Climate Change – Responses to Comments
    Expert credibility in climate science, consensus and the Anderegg PNAS study

  • Happy 35th birthday, global warming!
    Global warming is turning 35! Not only has the current spate of global warming been going on for about 35 years now, but also the term “global warming” will have its 35th anniversary next week. On 8 August 1975, Wally Broecker published his paper “Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?” in [...]

  • An icy retreat
    Guest Commentary by Dirk Notz, MPI Hamburg It’s almost routine by now: Every summer, many of those interested in climate change check again and again the latest data on sea-ice evolution in the Arctic. Such data are for example available on a daily basis from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center. And again and [...]

  • The Montford Delusion
    Guest commentary by Tamino Update: Another review of the book has been published by Alistair McIntosh in the Scottish Review of Books (scroll down about 25% through the page to find McIintosh’s review) Update #2 (8/19/10): The Guardian has now weighed in as well. If you don’t know much about climate science, or about the details of the [...]

  • A Eulogy to Stephen Schneider
    We were greatly saddened to learn that our revered colleague Stephen Schneider passed away this morning. We are posting a personal account by Ben Santer of Steve’s amazing accomplishments and contributions. Ben’s account provides a glimpse into what made Steve so special, and why he will be so deeply missed: Today the world lost a great [...]

  • Revisiting the Younger Dryas
    Younger Dryas, North Atlantic circulation, MOC, abrupt climate change, last glacial maximum

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  • Why ForceChange Has Been Quiet Lately
    We’ve been getting a lot of emails from readers lately asking why our daily postings have slowed down. The answer is that the ForceChange team has been hard at work on a new website. Similar to ForceChange, the new site will be environmentally related. While we can’t disclose the details of the project yet, in [...]

  • China Pushes Forward on Cleaner Coal Technologies
    NYT has an interesting analysis of the development of cleaner coal technologies in China. Although China burns more coal than the US, Europe and Japan combined, and sits on the world’s third largest coal reserve (after the US and Russia), that country is becoming a leading developer of new cleaner coal technology. By using extremely [...]

  • New York City-Sized Ice Block Breaks Off Antarctic Ice Shelf
    Reuters reports that a giant chunk of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month. Nine other ice shelves have receded or collapsed around the Antarctic peninsula in the past 50 years, which scientists widely attribute to climate change.

  • Gore To Congresswoman: If You Think It’s About Greed, “You Don’t Know Me”



  • Is Rep. Barton (R-TX) Confused by Plate Tectonics?
    The nonsense coming out of Congress lately on climate and energy policy continued on Wednesday when Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the ranking member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, apparently failed to grasp the concept of plate tectonics in a hearing with Energy Secretary (and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient) Steven Chu. Congressman Barton, after [...]

  • EPA Announcement Pits Two Failing Industries Against Each Other
    On Thursday the EPA announced that it is seeking comments on a proposal to increase the permitted amount of ethanol in regular gasoline to be increased from 10% to 15%. This debate will pit the army of lobbyists from two struggling industries against each other. On one side we have the corn industry, which has [...]

  • Smoke From Wood Burning Stoves Pose Major Climate and Health Problems
    Another potent climate change driver has been on the radar of many scientists lately. The problem is soot emissions from wood fired stoves used extensively throughout the developing world. The soot emissions are believed to be so potent that they are considered by some to be the second biggest driver of climate change after CO2. [...]

  • Mammoth Ski Area Cabin Receives LEED Platinum Rating
    The ski industry is particularly vulnerable to climate change. So it is nice to hear when they take the lead in addressing greenhouse gas emissions, as they have in Aspen. Not to be left out, Mammoth Mountain ski area has received LEED Platinum certification for one of its lodges. The 1336 square foot cabin is [...]

  • Energy Giants Ignore Their Own Greenwashing Campaigns
    NYT had an interesting article this week about Big Oil’s resistance to developing renewable energy sources. Normally, this wouldn’t be a big surprise– as Big Oil is naturally in the business of producing big oil. However, given the nearly ubiquitous marketing campaigns run by the energy giants touting their newfound green credentials, their failure [...]

  • Biogas From Landfill to Fuel Power Plants
    Methane released from landfills is an exceptionally powerful greenhouse gas. However, recent efforts by some companies to harness this gas have proven a valuable source of energy as well as climate change mitigation. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced on Monday that it would be selling up to 6000 MMBtus of biomethane per day generated and [...]

  • Congressman: God Decides When ‘The Earth Will End’
    This clip shows Congressman John Shimkus’s (R-Ill) introductory remarks at a House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment hearing last week. And in this clip, the congressman concludes his inane questioning of British climate change denier Christopher Monckton (and past advocate of forcibly quarantining all people with AIDS for life), by implying that climate change is not a threat because God has already [...]

  • Supreme Court: Power Plants Not Required to Use State-of-the-Art Water Cooling Process
    The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the EPA can balance business costs against environmental benefits when deciding whether to impose closed-cycle cooling requirements on power plants. The case was originally brought before the Court last year by the Bush Administration, which had argued that business interests must be properly considered. Environmentalists opposed this idea, [...]

  • Democrats to Propose Greenhouse Gas Emissions Bill
    House Democrats will propose a new bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on Tuesday. The legislation, co-sponsored by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), who chairs the panel’s Energy and Environment Subcommittee, aims to cut emissions by 20% from 2005 levels by 2020 and to increase energy efficiency [...]

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