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Getting to 100 percent renewables in 20 years
Boffins at the Institute for Policy Research and Development in London have calculated just how much fossil fuel we have to burn to get to the point that we never […]
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Protect the Clean Air Act, Protect Americans
Lance Weyeneth really dislikes leaving northern Michigan and he rarely heads south of the Au Sable River. The avid angler works at one of the most popular fly fishing lodges […]
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Drinking game for big Obama energy speech today
President Obama is delivering today what is being billed as a very big speech on “energy security.” You can watch it live around 11:20 am here. I propose the following […]
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Nuclear Reactor May Kill 192,000 Annually
Oh, wait a minute. I got that wrong. I meant ethanol reactor, not nuclear reactor. From a paper published in the spring 2011 issue of the Journal of American Physicians […]
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WattsUpWithThat attack on Berkeley temperature findings was pure fabrication
UPDATE: Watts has posted two comments below that contain a disingenuous admission of error and several more outrageous falsehoods. While Watts asserts below, “I was not aware of the issue […]
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NASA’s James Hansen: ‘This decade will be the warmest’ on record
The country’s leading climatologist has a fascinating analysis on “Perceptions of Climate Change: Can people recognize changing climate?” Hansen had predicted as part of his famous 1988 testimony “that the […]
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Is Germany’s nuke shutdown a Pyrrhic victory for climate hawks?
Germany’s Green party staked its historic win on promises to accelerate the shutdown of the country’s remaining nuclear reactors. But Europe’s energy commissioner says their plans will only lead to […]
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Americans worry less about climate change than drinking water, rainforests or sprawl
The good news is that 75 percent of Americans are worried about air and water pollution, and a majority are concerned about the extinction of plants and animals. The bad […]
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America falls to third place in global race for clean energy
Globally, clean energy investment and finance reached $243 million in 2010, up 630 percent from 2004 and 30 percent from 2009. Germany experienced a 100 percent increase in investment, to […]
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Republicans for Environmental Progress: An Endangered Species
For most of modern American history, the two major political parties in America have largely agreed on the desired long-term environmental outcomes for the country: there was a consensus among […]
