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Science historian Weart on global warming

Spencer Weart: My most interesting conversations were with historians who have been studying the history of the tobacco companies that did their best, and quite successfully for many years, to […]

India aims for 20 gigawatts solar by 2022

We’ve seen that the “New U.S.-India Green Partnership improves prospects for global climate deal.”  But Treehugger has more on the world’s most populous democracy (and the photo is B Balaji […]

Michael Mann updates the world on the latest climate science

Michael Mann, one of the country’s leading climatologists, has coauthored a major new review and analysis of climate science since the 2007 IPCC report.  Mann, Director of Pennsylvania State University’s […]

Evolution of Evolution

Here’s something else I’m thankful for:  Science. Charles Darwin’s seminal work, On the Origin of Species, was published on 150 years ago this week, November 24, 1859.  You can read […]

“Many , including us, find deniers’ claims irresponsible.”

Last weekend was a good one for climate-change deniers. A hacker stole and released scores of documents, including personal e-mail exchanges, from a server at Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) […]

New Energy Finance: Solar power 50% cheaper by year end

  By the end of 2009, there will have been a 50% drop in the levelized cost–i.e. the lifetime cost per kWh before subsidies–of solar power, and a 10% reduction […]

CEI to sue RealClimate blogger over moderation policy

Gavin Schmidt has done a wonderful job at RealClimate patiently explaining the context of the stolen emails. He’s made it perfectly clear that the claims of scientific malpractice are without […]

NASA figures compare 2009 to the two hottest years on record

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies posted these fascinating figures last week (click for PDF).  Yes, the one place in the world where it warmed the least this year is, […]

Contest — Rename “Climategate” after the crime, not the victim

Embarrassing climate e-mails will have limited impact Scientists behaving badly won’t change evidence…. WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Revelation of a series of embarrassing e-mails by climate scientists provides fodder […]

Satellite data suggests "that EAST Antarctica is losing mass"

The East Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass for the last three years, according to an analysis of data from a gravity-measuring satellite mission. That’s from the BBC story.  […]