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NSIDC: Arctic melt passes the point of no return
The U.K.’s Independent reports on a study to be presented Tuesday to the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco by top cryosphere scientists: Scientists have found […]
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Normally staid IEA says oil will peak in 2020
Fatih Birol, chief economist to the International Energy Agency, told the U.K.’s Guardian this week: “In terms of non-Opec [countries outside the big oil producers’ cartel],” he replied, “we are […]
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Mainstream mags are getting over green
Pop quiz: Mainstream magazines are ditching the whole “green issue” thing in 2009 because: green is soooo 2006, 2007, and 2008 eh, those issues never sold that well they’re incorporating […]
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They all crush ‘clean coal’: Stanford study, part 1
When we last met Stanford professor Mark Jacobson, he was explaining why you shouldn’t buy a diesel car if you care about global warming. His new myth-busting study finds the […]
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No. 1: ‘It’s not guaranteed we have a solution for coal’
Obama formally named Steven Chu his nominee for energy secretary at a press conference Monday afternoon. Here are the top five reasons he is one of the best cabinet picks […]
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Oliphant and Washington Post ignorantly smear GM and plug-in hybrids
I think this is worthy of an email campaign — this time to the Post (see below). There’s nothing wrong with mocking GM. It is a target-rich environment that has […]
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U.S. negotiating team in Poznan dodges questions on Bush’s climate inactivism
Below is another dispatch from the climate talks in Poland by CAP Senior Fellow Andrew Light, first printed in WonkRoom. —– In one of the more surreal moments of this […]
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ACCE pulls down clean coal carolers from its site
Bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, But the levee was under a half mile of rubble from a mountaintop that had been decapitated … OK, I’m […]
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Earth Hour hopes to reach a billion people in 2009
It looks like Earth Hour — the one hour a year when everyone turns off their lights as a symbol of concern over global warming — is going to be […]
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Serena’s cautionary tale
On Oct. 18, 1929, just days before the stock market crash, Thomas Wolfe published his monumental novel, Look Homeward, Angel, unveiling the machinations behind small town life in western North […]
