Category Archives: climate

Now We are Seven Billion! La, La, La

Despite the evident threat to the well being of our descendants some idiots keep asserting that the “Population bomb theory is a myth“. What complete nonsense! For one thing China’s “economic miracle” comes after 30 years of having a one … Continue reading

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Sustainable Energy Choices

Barry Brooks at ‘BraveNewClimate’ has made a brave effort at summing up the need for nuclear power as part of the CO2-free mix in a brief video, but parts of it still felt to me like “industry propaganda” – to the … Continue reading

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Blog Action Day

This year’s Blog Action Day is devoted to the theme of Climate Change and an understanding of mathematics is certainly essential for anyone involved in making making decisions about how to respond to this issue (which in a democracy is … Continue reading

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David MacKay: Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air

In Sustainable Energy – without the hot air UK physicist David MacKay presents plausible back-of-the-envelope estimates of the scales of action needed under various strategies for reduction of global carbon fuel combustion. The numbers he uses are easily checked and … Continue reading

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Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid | AlterNet

Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid | AlterNet Typical knee-jerk anti-nuke article but comments actually worth reading

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Dyson on Global Warming

The Question of Global Warming – The New York Review of Books

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CO2 Reduction Scenarios (UK example)

Heavyweight physics prof weighs into climate/energy scrap [printer-friendly] | The Register

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AlterNet: Environment: Exposed: The Truth Behind Popular Carbon Offsetting Schemes

AlterNet: Environment: Exposed: The Truth Behind Popular Carbon Offsetting Schemes

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Jim Motavalli at AlterNet on the Nuclear Option?

AlterNet: Environment: Is Fear About Climate Change Causing a Nuclear Renaissance? provides a balanced review including summaries of a number of people’s positions but doesn’t really add any new information.

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Climate change: A guide for the perplexed – earth – 16 May 2007 – New Scientist Environment

Climate change: A guide for the perplexed – earth – 16 May 2007 – New Scientist Environment

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Kudos to Fox News ?

Thanks to Theodore Labadie who posted the link on the ‘Transforming Langara’ listserv, but this is not surprising. The interview subject is promoting the purchase of “carbon offsets” and the opportunities for fraud in that are so magnificent that no … Continue reading

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AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Renewables Can Turn the Tide on Global Warming

AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Renewables Can Turn the Tide on Global Warming

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What Al Gore Hasn’t Told You . . .

What Al Gore Hasn’t Told You About Global Warming is a review on Alternet by David Morris of George Monbiot’s book ‘Heat’

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Carbon Footprint

Carbon Footprint includes a “calculator” for estimating one’s personal contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere and suggests various ways of reducing or offsetting it. But the encouragement to “plant trees” (or pay for same) may be misguided, since it seems … Continue reading

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RealClimate – Climate Science Blog

RealClimate is a blog about climate science maintained primarily by Gavin Schmidt. It appears to be a forum for active discussion of current issues with input from a wide cross section of those active in the field.

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The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect

This is a balanced complete and well referenced account of the history of our understanding of CO2 in the atmosphere.

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