The Green Technocrat

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Earlier today a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that China will not accept a binding emissions reduction target when the UNFCCC holds its climate change conference in Copenhagen saying that this would stunt the country’s economic growth.
China is still a developing country and the present task confronting China is to develop its economy [...]

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About a week ago the Energy Information Administration, whose job it is to keep “official energy statistics for the U.S. government”, released a report titled International Energy Outlook 2009.  The main highlight of which is this grim prediction:
World marketed energy consumption is projected to increase by 44 percent from 2006 to 2030.
The report projects [...]

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It happened yesterday.  Quietly, without anyone hardly noticing, a group of about 40 families (about 2000 people), part of a group known as the The Carteret Islanders of Papua New Guinea, packed their belongings into boats and said goodbye to their island home forever, thus making them the world’s first, but certainly not last, climate [...]

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I’ve been staring at a lot of GHG emissions data lately.  Is there anything more fun than pouring over table after table of UNFCCC national submissions, IEA reports and E.P.A. eGRID values?  OK, I guess I can think of a few things, but reviewing all this data has actually been pretty interesting.   One of the [...]

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Yesterday China announced that they are working on a stimulus plan that they hope will spur development in their renewable energy industry.  While it isn’t exactly clear what the stimulus will entail, it seems likely that it will involve providing large subsidies to solar and wind energy producers.  The mere announcement of the stimulus caused [...]

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The Bonn Climate Change Talks, one of the series of UNFCCC conferences that are leading up to the Copenhagen talks (where a new UN protocol will be adopted to replace the Kyoto protocol), ended on April 8th.
Synopsis from UNFCCC:
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer stated that, with regard to emission targets for industrialized countries, the [...]

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Yes! We finally are going to have a president that understands the direction America needs to move in to reduce our emissions and our dependence on fossil fuels.  Now if only he would give up his ideas on bailing out our automakers…

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You know how everything cause cancer?  Smoking - cancer. Drinking - cancer. Talking on the phone - cancer.  Walking down the street - cancer.  Well it seems the same thing can be said about global warming.  Because it is now official, even water causes global warming.
Actually climate scientists have long recognized the fact that water [...]

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Earlier today the United Nations released the most detailed report to date on the phenomenon known as “atmospheric brown clouds.”  The report concluded that a thick cloud of soot, toxic chemicals, and smog was blocking the sun in many areas of the world, including Africa, the Amazon basin, parts of North America, and above all [...]

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Often times we (myself included) think of solar and wind power as the technologies leading the fight in the transition to generating our country’s electricity from clean, renewable resources.  This is certainly true, and as regular readers of this blog know, I fully support the development of both these technologies on a massive scale.  But [...]

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