This news is a little stale by now, but the big skunk-works project that has monopolized my time and prevented me from getting podcasts out has launched.
Planet3.0 is a new attempt at sustainability journalism. An attempt to present the news that should be on the front page.
An attempt to remove the sense of helplessness for the future:
What will become of us? [more]
I haven’t released a podcast in a long time and you, my loyal fans, deserve an explanation.
And while I have a good explanation, I can’t really tell you about it. All I can say is that I have not been idle this past while, I am working on something that has the potential to be big. [more]
A market system that fails to price the full cost of carbon is socialism -Dan Moutal
David Mitchell explains the power of a carbon tax in less than 5 minutes using… furniture as an example? Yes furniture! Just watch it.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syii9DKnb2M&w=560&h=345]
And if you liked that, then you will love this.
The connection between cosmic rays and clouds has always been tenuous. The connection between cosmic rays and climate even more so.
But that hasn’t stopped the cosmic ray driven climate (and therefor not caused by GHG emissions) theory from getting more attention than it deserves. From every single study that doesn’t outright disprove the notion that cosmic rays influence the climate from getting undue attention. [more]
Here we go again! Time after time the claims made by deniers about the conduct of climate scientists (in this case Michael Mann) fail to live up to the hype. This time it is the National Science Foundation that found that, like all the previous investigations that resulted from the leaked climategate emails, the scientists involved did nothing wrong, stating:
We reviewed the emails and concluded that nothing contained in them evidenced research misconduct within the definition in the NSF Research Misconduct Regulation… We found no basis to conclude that the emails were evidence of research misconduct or that they pointed to such evidence…
The research in question was originally completed over 10 years ago. [more]
By now it is all over the internet, and I am late getting to it. But it is still worth mentioning. Apparently some people are offended by the fact that Al Gore called a spade a spade the bullshit coming from deniers exactly what it is: Bullshit.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=933UHEUGLeE]
On episode 21: German nukes, safety nukes, underwater nukes and jelly nukes, Another pseudo-scandal in a teapot, the true cost of gas, GHG emissions reach record breaking levels and the weather goes berserk while crazy deniers predict an ice age, The disgusting harassment of scientists, Christy Crocks, The Kyoto protocol is finally dead, and a delicious dose of irony. [more]
More sense coming from John Huntsman:
The minute that the Republican Party becomes the party – the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. We lose a whole lot of people who would otherwise allow us to win the election in 2012. When we take a position that isn’t willing to embrace evolution, when we take a position that basically runs counter to what 98 of 100 climate scientists have said, what the National Academy of Science – Sciences has said about what is causing climate change and man’s contribution to it, I think we find ourselves on the wrong side of science, and, therefore, in a losing position… I can’t remember a time in our history where we actually were willing to shun science and become a – a party that – that was antithetical to science. [more]
To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy. – Jon Huntsman, 2012 Republican presidential candidate
This is what real conservatism looks like. And we need more of it, lots more.
(h/t Joe Romm)
Scott Denning is not the type of person who you would expect to give talks at the Heartland Institute’s Climate Change Conference. After all Scott Denning is a well respected climate scientist, a professor in the department of atmospheric science at Colorado state university. While The Heartland institute is a bastion of anti-science denialism, not only denying the role humans play in changing the planet’s climate but also denying the adverse health effects of second hand smoke. [more]
John Abraham is at it again: part 2
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1R2KeqpEQ&w=560&h=349]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p94KgNm1f1A&w=560&h=349]
And for those who missed part 1 here it is.
Peter Sinclair hits another home run:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVh7z-0oo6o&w=560&h=349]
Like it or not (I obviously don’t) the green movement has failed. It has failed to inspire the public to care about the environment we all depend on, it has failed to make the public understand the gravity and scale of our current environmental problems, and it has failed to get politicians to do anything at all. [more]
We’ve won the public opinion debate, and we’ve won the political debate as well, … But the scientific debate is a source of enormous frustration. –Joe Bast, president and co-founder of the Heartland Institute
Both public opinion and political debates are frequently, affected by things other than reality. The scientific debate on the other hand isn’t. [more]
This episode: German nukes, safety nukes, underwater nukes and jelly nukes, another pseudo-scandal in a teapot, the true cost of gas, GHG emissions reach record breaking levels and the weather goes berserk while crazy deniers predict an ice age, The disgusting harassment of scientists, Christy Crocks, the Kyoto protocol is finally dead, and a delicious dose of Irony. [more]
In The Know: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit
In The Know: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit
Panelists debate whether the U.S. is doing enough to heed the warnings of coal industry scientists who say turbines could blow the Earth right into the sun.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhYY_4Wzls&w=560&h=349]
Of course the same applies for coal. More-so actually because coal pollutes far more than gasoline.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adAvYK1O-ic&w=480&h=390]
Sceptical Science provides us with a nice graph that explains all of this in detail:
[more]
