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Climate Change and CO2 400 ppm
If you follow the climate news to even a moderately obsessive degree, then you’re aware that we’ve been creeping up on 400ppm, which is to say, an amount of CO2 in the atmosphere that’s 400 parts per million, by volume.As the above graphic and...
Climate Change: Why Going "Green" is Not Enough
George Monbiot has a piece up on The Guardian, Let’s stop hiding behind recycling and be honest about consumption, which is both more pointed than usefully pointed than most mainstream environmental writing, but still glides past some points that I...
The Consequences of a Blue Arctic
We haven’t had a good algorasm here in a while, so let’s break out our calculators and do some plug-and-chug math regarding a critical topic: the consequences of a Blue Arctic.I define “Blue Arctic” as the Arctic Ocean being largely ice free for at...
On Climate Change and the Educational Value of a Kick in the Teeth
From the New York Times come the latest very worrying story about colony collapse disorder, Soaring Bee Deaths in 2012 Sound Alarm on Malady:A mysterious malady that has been killing honeybees en masse for several years appears to have expanded...
Is Coal Still King?
Coal: India’s plans for coal-fired power plants soar — study[emphasis added]:India is poised to contend with China as the globe’s top consumer of coal, with 455 power plants preparing to come online, a prominent environmental research group has...
Climate change and capitalism
I’ve long pushed the view that the so-called “free market” (or capitalism or however you care to slice and dice economics in the US and similar countries) should not be viewed as an end in itself, an all-powerful mystical force to be worshiped, but...
The Challenge of Natural Gas
The Economist has a decent piece up about natural gas fracking, Shale gas: Fracking great.I say only “decent” because it underplays the side effects of fracking, like ground water contamination, the spread of who-knows-what chemicals, etc., but it...
Where's the Action on Climate Change?
There’s been a minor amount of coverage in the blogosphere about the passing of Sherwood Rowland, Nobel Prize-winning scientist: Rowland is one of the true scientific heroes of our time — both for his research and for what he did with it: Nearly 40...
What drives James Hansen on climate change
James Hansen, a climate scientist who certainly needs no introduction to regular readers of this site, has given a TED talk about what motivates him to activism on climate change. I beg you to find 18 consecutive distraction-free minutes to watch...
A Shortcut to Restraining Climate Change?
My RSS news feeds are simply bursting at the seams with the news that scientists have figured out that by concentrating on non-CO2 greenhouse-effect emissions we can get a pretty big and speedy bang for the buck. Can we slow down the victory parade...
Yet Another Battery Breakthrough
If you could wave your handy dandy magic wand and create a single technological breakthrough that would make a huge impact on our intertwined climate and energy challenges, you’d be hard pressed to come up with something better than a killer battery...
The Wave Disk Generator
OK, now this is intriguing, even if the article is from April(!?)… New Car Engine Sends Shock Waves Through Auto Industry: researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft,...
