The Green Technocrat

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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…they both seem like a good idea at the time, but you’re probably going to end up with syphilis.

So gas prices have been falling lately, and while people across the country have been rejoicing in their good fortune - You might not be able to afford your mortgage, and you might have lost your retirement [...]

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The other day I was reading through a few ACS publications when I came across an article written by editor Jerald Schooner.  Schooner’s article, titled Just Three Steps for Climate Stability and Energy Security, gives a breakdown of what he believes are the three most important steps that need to be taken to reduce the [...]

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Yesterday morning Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Jeffery Sachs, the director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute sparred over how the international community is addressing climate change, and what changes need to be made in order to help poor countries reduce their carbon emissions.
Mr. [...]

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James Hansen is the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.  Aside from that he is an Adjunct Professor in the  Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University.  He has a Ph.D. in physics, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996, was listed as one of Time Magazines [...]

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Last week the Global Carbon Project (GCP), whose mission is to track greenhouse gas emissions, released an updated report stating that their data showed that carbon emissions are accelerating quicker than previously expected, and that the levels were reaching the highest scenarios considered last year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This report came [...]

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From the UNFCCC:

The Poznań Climate Change Conference provides the opportunity to draw together the advances made in 2008 and move from [...]

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No wonder G.M. is going bankrupt. Earlier this week G.M.’s vice chairman Bob Lutz was on the Colbert Report to discuss the Volt, Chevy’s new electric car. Among other things Lutz says that he does not believe in climate change and “neither do about 32,000 of the worlds leading scientists”. He goes [...]

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Science Debate 2008 started off as a group of six-two screenwriters, a physicist, a marine biologist, a philosopher and a science journalist-whose mission was to determine where this year’s presidential candidates stood on issues of scientific importance. Their ranks swelled as thousands of scientists and engineers (including dozens of Nobel laureates) joined them in [...]

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