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Climate Progress 2009-11-23 22:25:36
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.  Nature Geoscience just published the study online, “Accelerated Antarctic ice loss from satellite gravity measurements.”  It begins, “Accurate quantification of Antarctic ice-sheet …


Climate Progress 2009-11-23 20:27:37
I’m updating this post from April since so many in the media and elsewhere still seem to be pushing the myth that climate scientists have been overhyping the threat posed by climate, when the reverse is true. Far from over-playing their hand to swell their research coffers, scientists have been toning down …


Climate Progress 2009-11-23 17:49:17
The Washington Post has published an easily fact-checked falsehood about clean energy — for the umpteenth time (see “WashPost op-ed page remains the home of un-fact-checked disinformation about clean energy and global warming“).  Not surprisingly, columnist George Will is the source (see “WashPost lets George Will publish a third time global …


Climate Progress 2009-11-23 17:12:58
Obama admin touts clean-air health benefits of clean energy, carbon pollution curbs The Obama administration trotted out its top environmental and health officials today to tout the public health benefits of slashing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Health and Human Services Secretary …


Climate Progress 2009-11-23 16:32:21
Guess who uttered that piece of nonsense.  I’ll put the answer below the jump — note that the wording of the headline statement contains a tiny clue as to who said it. In any case, you simply can’t top solar for clean power, especially Concentrated solar thermal power Solar Baseload ? a …


Climate Progress 2009-11-23 15:34:38
As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are …


Climate Progress 2009-11-23 13:34:19
HP recognizes that the costs of adapting to unmitigated climate change will likely far outweigh the costs of slowing it down, as noted in the Stern report. HP believes it is in both society?s and business? interests to limit global temperature increase to 2°C from pre-industrial levels by the end of …


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Climate Progress 2009-11-22 22:29:35
The blog Carbon Fixated has a must-read post that provides some perspective on the scandal du jour: If you own any shares in companies that produce reflecting telescopes, use differential and integral calculus, or rely on the laws of motion, I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the calculus myth …


Climate Progress 2009-11-22 19:24:15
A bunch of illegally hacked UK e-mails storm the anti-scientific side of the blogosphere at the same time as an uber-extreme weather event hits Britain.  I guess when it rains, it pours — literally: Forecasters said the rainfall was unprecedented. Britain’s Meteorological Office said a record 12.3 inches of rain fell in …


Climate Progress 2009-11-22 14:04:12
I had an appointment on the top floor of a 14-story building in NY City Thursday.  The elevator buttons read: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 12M, 14. I’d thought that sort of thing was getting rarer since I don’t see it much in Washington DC office …


Climate Progress 2009-11-22 14:01:07
I had previously blogged on the anti-mature (ante-mature?) antics of the Senator from Oklahoma (see Sen. Inhofe explains he?s going to Copenhagen so that when Sen. Kerry says ?Yes. We?re going to pass a global warming bill? then ?I will be able to stand up and say, ?No, it?s over. Get …


Climate Progress 2009-11-21 17:53:21
Since health care reform is on the Senate agenda right now, I’m reposting this Think Progress piece.  Looks like the WV Chamber is a chip-off-the-block of the incredible shrinking U.S. Chamber.  Coal use, of course, is one reason why everyone needs access to health care (see “NRC: Burning fossil fuels costs …


Climate Progress 2009-11-21 14:47:04
Wired has done some excellent reporting on one of the supposed start-dumping-your-clean-energy-stocks e-mails — the one by Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado: Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are asking …


Climate Progress 2009-11-20 19:23:52
As many of you will be aware, a large number of emails from the University of East Anglia webmail server were hacked recently (Despite some confusion generated by Anthony Watts, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Hadley Centre which is a completely separate institution). So begins the RealClimate post on …


Climate Progress 2009-11-20 18:09:03
FACTBOX-Climate negotiating positions of top emitters Russia toughened on Wednesday its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions, saying it would target a 25 percent reduction from 1990 levels by 2020 compared with a 10-15 percent pledge previously. Following are the negotiating positions of the top greenhouse gas emitters before a U.N. meeting in …


Climate Progress 2009-11-20 15:51:56
U.S. President Barack Obama tours the Great Wall in Badaling, China on Wednesday, November 18.  This is a CAP repost by Julian L. Wong and Andrew Light. The United States and China announced on Tuesday a package of cooperative agreements on clean energy and climate change that …


Climate Progress 2009-11-20 14:15:43
Global warming is melting 18,000 Himalayan glaciers — the largest concentration of glaciers outside the great polar ice sheets. If the present melt rate continues, many of these glaciers will be gone by the middle of this century, disrupting the perennial water supply to hundreds of millions of people. To explore this …


Climate Progress 2009-11-20 01:16:23
A top White House adviser yesterday pushed back against the idea of paring down Senate legislation on energy and global warming and frowned upon emerging talk among some moderates to limit legislative efforts to capping greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. “Our position is, let’s do it all,” said Carol Browner, President …


Climate Progress 2009-11-19 20:53:13
When we last left the Chamber of Commerce, Apple was leaving over their ?frustrating? global warming denialism.  NRDC’s Pete Altman has the latest on the incredible shrinking Chamber in a piece first published here. John Broder has an illuminating story in today’s New York Times “Storm Over the Chamber” discussing the US …


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