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Narnia plans to reduce emissions by 30% by the year 2020
As we head towards Copenhagen, there will be endless comparison of proposed emission targets. For example, from the NY Times: This week, South Korea said it would cut emissions by 30 percent from “business as usual” by 2020. Russia’s...
US-China cooperation on climate and, er, coal
The US and China have released a joint statement on a number of issues, including "Climate Change, Energy and the Environment". After the standard political jargon about the need for full co-operation in global agreements, comes some specifics: The...
World Leaders Agree to Delay Climate Change Deal
This news comes from the APEC summit in Singapore. NY Times:SINGAPORE — President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month...
Himalayan glaciers and the virtue of reading beyond the headline
My number one pet peeve with the blogosphere is that too many bloggers post on a new report or paper without actually looking at the new report or paper. Bloggers regularly bash mainstream media for lazy reporting then often go ahead and base...
New York Times drops the ball reporting on Gore
The New York Times printed this absolute train wreck about Al Gore. Apparently some commentators are claiming Gore is arguing for action on climate change in order to make himself rich. So the NY Times printed a pointless story about those claims....
The climate science filibuster
Over the past couple months, there have been another online kerfuffle about the famous "hockey stick" millennial temperature reconstruction. Namely, Steve McIntrye attempted to show that tree ring reconstructions may have been biased, such that...
Carbon consequences of the biofuels land use cascade
I've written here before about the land use cascade, the sequence of land transformations and land use changes that follow a change in one region.A new Policy Forum in Science argues that ignoring the cascading carbon consequences of converting...
Letter from 18 US scientific organizations supporting the US climate bill
Released today (hat tip). It's signed by the leaders of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union,American Institute of Biological Sciences, American Meteorological Society, American...
On Geoengineering
Ken Caldeira, at Yale 360, in response to a question about reducing CO2 via mitigation vs. reducing warming via engineering:But I think if we had some magic thing that would reverse all effects of CO2 perfectly, then you could say, “Well the...
Superfreakeconomics and the glory of contrarianism
The Union of Concerned Scientists, Joe Romm at Climate Progress, William Connolley and Tim Lambert have done a fine job rebutting the cynical and lazy "global cooling" section of the upcoming book Superfreakonomics*.Of the criticisms that climate...
Can the world meet the high cost of adaptation?
A few weeks ago, I posted what are more or less the three themes of Maribo. The third theme:Adapting to climate change is far more difficult and far more expensive than most people and most supposed experts assume. This comes from spending too much...
Living in "the age of stupid"
The climate change film The Age of Stupid has been doing the film fest rounds, including a recent premiere here at the Vancouver International Film Festival. This pseudo-documentary tells the story of "a man living alone in the devastated world of...
